Summer Job Applications

I got a huge response to my restricted circulation email about the summer jobs - many thanking me for drawing attention to the fact that it was the last date. Some had not even heard of this scheme!

i did have one interesting reply from a person in the loop which read as follows - (I do not identify the person as it is not the official viewpoint of the organisation that she represents):

About the summer jobs:

We advertised those jobs when the application time started.

I agree, that Oulu should really put effort and value to many different groups living here. My great personal concern is that the jobs offered below are only for a month at a time, and the pay is related to the duties - 800 e / month. Also the duties are very simple and as that offer good work experience for school girls and boys, but the students of the University or Polytechnic can't really seem to get much benefit out of these. Also the work effort gained by the City of Oulu is to be questioned, for they have to teach a person to do the job monthly.

Still there is a huge amount of applicants to these jobs. I wish that in the future years we will see three month period traineeships, which actually include real duties that both the student and the City of Oulu can get the benefits for the future.

Also, when the duties get heavier, the pay should be related to it (thinking about 1200 e / month).

These kinds of traineeships would also suit better the foreign degree seeking students. The work experience value would be significantly greater, the identity of the trainee would rise, the city would get real work effort and so everybody would gain.

This is just my personal opinion, not official of the "Organisation" ;)

I certainly appreciate the sentiments expressed.

However, I would like to point out that many University and Polytechnic students (including the ethnic minorities) are wanting these jobs just to "survive".

A strategy has to be worked out which really looks at the number of job seekers and the places created as there is no use in having a "huge amount of applicants" for a pitiful number of openings.

It is hardly a strategy.

I also had a comment from another person in the loop who confessed that they had not realised that this information had not been put out in the English (or other foreign language) on the City website, promising that in future years it would be done.

I am waiting to see how many of the ethnic minorities happen to get an opportunity in this - even for the so called "month".

That will be the real test of what the City is doing!