”You must come to Oulu with an open mind and a big smile”

Who

My name is Jun­naid Iqbal. I am 27 years old and I come from Pak­istan.

Where

I work as a Sys­tem Sim­u­la­tion Engi­neer in Nokia for the devel­op­ment and deploy­ment of the 5G net­work.

Why

I have been in Oulu near­ly two and a half years now. I came direct­ly from Pak­istan in 2018 to study for a Mas­ters in Wire­less Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Engi­neer­ing at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Oulu. Along with the stud­ies, I worked as a Research Assis­tant on the university’s 6G pio­neer flag­ship pro­gram.

I always dreamt about study­ing in high­er-lev­el edu­ca­tion abroad. There­fore, research in the field of wire­less net­works and the 6G oppor­tu­ni­ties pro­vid­ed by the uni­ver­si­ty helped me to choose Oulu.

What

‘Oppor­tu­ni­ties for all’. As an inter­na­tion­al per­son, that’s the way I would describe the Finnish soci­ety’s belief.  The stan­dard of liv­ing in Oulu is high.

The city of Oulu is well orga­nized and there is not much traf­fic, unlike in my home coun­try.

Although peo­ple are quite shy, if you ask them to help, they are more than hap­py to help you. You must come here with an open mind and a big smile.

On a per­son­al lev­el, every­one has here enough time for rest and heal­ing both the body and the mind.

In my spare time, I enjoy doing exer­cis­es in the gym and play­ing sports, for exam­ple crick­et, bad­minton and vol­ley­ball.

I espe­cial­ly love the beach­es here, and Nal­likari is one of my favorite places in Oulu. I like to go to the sauna too.

How

There are many oppor­tu­ni­ties for ICT per­son­nel in Oulu, so I would like to encour­age peo­ple to con­sid­er Oulu as their next home­town.

LinkedIn is the first stop to get all the infor­ma­tion about cur­rent open­ings. There­fore, it is bet­ter to gath­er all the rel­e­vant details from LinkedIn and apply through the job por­tal of the orga­ni­za­tion.

When you are apply­ing for work, Finnish com­pa­nies appre­ci­ate rel­e­vant expe­ri­ence, a skill set and edu­ca­tion,. There are lots of oppor­tu­ni­ties to grow and devel­op your skill sets pro­fes­sion­al­ly.

This arti­cle was orig­i­nal­ly pub­lished at oulutalenthub.fi

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