Alma Media is a versatile digital service business and media company with a strong capacity for renewal. Alma has a wide portfolio of different products and services. The collaboration with the School of Business reflects this versatility well. As an employer Alma Media needs now and in the future
- especially talents with knowledge in digital business (in addition to technical digital skills),
- data experts,
- experts from various fields in Aalto University for the journalistic work,
- skills in marketing and sales
- but also experts for different support functions.
In Finland Alma Media’s business operations include leading housing and automotive marketplaces, financial and professional media, national consumer media and content and data services for professionals and businesses. Alma’s international business units in eastern Middle Europe, Sweden and the Baltic countries consists of recruitment services and an online marketplace for commercial properties. The Alma Media group employs appr. 1700 people in 12 countries in Europe. Read more about Alma Media on their web pages https://www.almamedia.fi/en/
Benefits to the business from projects
During our partnerhip Alma Media has organised numerous Customized Student Business Projects, which have helped Alma develop their business. The topics have varied from investigating the management culture to developing the financial reporting. Alma Media takes part in teaching as well and brings challenging cases for students to be solved for example in Capstone courses and in the process give the students a good view to real business life.
The School of Business has also been involved with creating Alma Media’s education series Onni työssä. The series aims at better worklife for everyone and this theme has come up also in our Future of Work research hub. In the Aalto Talent Expo career fair we also collaborate with Jobly, the Alma Media’s recruitment service.