Talent Expo

Summary of Aalto Talent Expo 2024

Aalto University's largest recruitment event, Talent Expo, was organised on November 14th, 2024. The event was held in Dipoli, where thousands of Aalto University students and 90 employer organisations had the opportunity to network and build connections. In addition to the live event, students met employers at virtual meetings organised through JobTeaser.
Wooden doors where yellow and red posters with text Talent Expo are attached
The main doors at Dipoli were decorated for the fair day. Photographer: Sara Vertanen

Aalto Talent Expo once again brought together students and employers in the fields of art, technology and business in Dipoli in November 2024. The event was organised for the fifth time, this time in a brand new location: Dipoli. The event has a firm reputation among students and employers. Many of the exhibitors have been joining Aalto Talent Expo since the beginning, though again this year new organisations joined the event as well. 

The marketing for employers begins well before the summer holidays and continues all the way to the fall until the registration deadline. If you wish to join the marketing list of the event, please subscribe here: Aalto Talent Expo mailing list subscription. By joining the list, you will be among the first ones to hear when the registration for the next event opens.

Many of the students are already familiar with the event and know when to start looking for information about each year's Talent Expo. New students get to learn about Aalto Talent Expo at the beginning of their studies in Aalto Party during Aalto Day One. The event is marketed to the students both digitally with newsletters, emails and social media but also with a traditional, printed and home-delivered post card, posters and visual presence on campus as well as a yearly marketing tour around the lobbies in the Otaniemi campus. 

Aalto Talent Expo 2024 in figures

Around
5000
Student visitors
90
Exhibitors
3300
Visits in JobTeaser
84
Virtual 1:1 meetings
2024 event as a whole
4,0/5
Student feedback
2024 event as a whole
4,5/5
Exhibitor feedback

Virtual 1:1 meetings include CV&LinkedIn clinics, Speed mentorings and Portfolio Reviews

A woman is attaching a green round sticker onto her black coat
Photographer: Sara Vertanen

Color coding as a tool for connecting employers and students

Different colored stickers help employers identify the school of the students visiting their stand. Tailored fair signs in return help students find employers who were looking to hire students from the different Aalto schools. Additionally, employers could indicate if they were able to hire non-finnish speaking students and offer thesis assignments. This year, for the first time, there was also a sign for doctoral students and the employers could indicate if they had suitable positions also for doctoral students.

80% of students and 80% of employers found the methods for targeting to be working well at the event.

Talent Expo visual
Aalto Talent Expo got a new visual identity also in 2024. Designer: Marianne Lenoir, Aalto University.

The most effective marketing channels

Newsletters and emails (38%), Aalto JobTeaser (36%) and aalto.fi website (30%) were the most effective marketing channels in student marketing. In addition, word of mouth (21%), prints on campus (17%) and the post card delivered to home (16%) proved to be efficient channels.

Student associations (13%), campus tour (9%) and Instagram (9%) were also well noticed.

Other channels mentioned: Aalto Party, Student services or lecture presentations and previous knowledge.

Feedback from students

4,0/5 overall grade for the event 

3,9/5 overall average for the virtual events

79,2% of students agreed or somewhat agreed that there were enough interesting employers

79,8% of students agreed or somewhat agreed that it was easy to find exhibitors interested in students from the respondent’s own school

61% had come to the event in order to find a summer job or an internship, and 27% had come to find permanent job

Feedback from exhibitors

4,5/5 The event as whole

4,7/5 Usefulness of the live fair

4,7/5 The number of students visiting their stand

4,5/5 Support and arrangements throughout the event

97% of exhibitors stated that their main target for the event was to build their employer brand

87% felt that students visiting their stand were relevant to their organization

Open Feedback

“Overall, the live fair has a good vibe. However, some points I marked as "can be improved."
1. The industries are not diverse enough. Most industries are related to engineering, energy, and science. As an art school student, it's difficult to see cultural-related companies here. 2. Some companies have the label "ART" on their signs, but they need other kinds of talents when you ask about that. 3. Too less ARTS-related opportunities. This is unfair because Aalto has the 6th rank in Art QS ranking but such less positions for arts students..” - Student

“Overall a very successful event! We had very promising applicants in our CV & LinkedIn clinic, which is always a great thing. ” (translated from Finnish)  - Exhibitor

"The space was nice, but sometimes very loud and it was difficult to hear the students." (translated from Finnish) - Exhibitor

“The event was really helpful for international students to get to know of  Finnish industries.” - Student


“Really well organised fair, thank you for that! :) It was really handy, that there were these School stickers and many students knew how match the sticker with the information on the stand signs. There have been challenges with this in the previous years, so this was a clear improvement. ... ” (translated from Finnish)  - Exhibitor

“Best Career Fair ever attended. Well done!”

- Student feedback

Aalto Talent Expo 2024 exhibitors

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Two men are standing in the center of the picture. Another one is pointing towards the photographer. Both are holding colorful brochures. People and roll-ups in the background.

Pictures from Aalto Talent Expo 2024

Photographer: Sara Vertanen.  

A big light element in the shape of A" in the middle of the dark picture. A person is standing infront of the light element and one can see only the shape of the person.
Picture from outside of Dipoli, the big Kapy sculpture can be seen in the front. Two people walking. A blue sheet with text Talent Expo is hanging from the Dipoli wall
7 colorful broschures with text Talent Expo lying on a table
A woman is standing and wearing VR glasses. The woman stands infront of a colorful wall with a big picture of a woman wearing an orange helmet and coat.
Picture from a big room full of people. Four walls in the centre of the room and the walls have big pictures on them.
An A-stand with poster of Talent Expo standing on a ground. People wwalking past the sign, you can see only their feet.
A woman is attaching a green round sticker onto her black coat
A woman is smiling and holding an overall badge with ABB logo close to the camera. A man is standing next to her.
A group of people are standing in a semi-circle and looking to the ground. One of them is holding a golf club and hitting a ball. TV and brown wall in the background
A woman is holding a white obstacle and talking to a man. They are standing facing each other. A big image with robots in the background
Two people are standing in a staircase. They are holding broschures and looking at them. Red and Yeallow posters with text Talent Expo is seen next to them.
Two people are standing in front of a big map on a yellow background. One of them is pointing at the map. The map has a text Talent Expo and Aalto University logo on it.
Two people are standing in a staircase and talking to each other. They are smiling. A crowd of people is seen in the background
Three people are standing next to a game. Their hands are moving.
A person is being photographed. You can see the back of the photographer holding a camera in the front of the picture and the other one posing in the background.
Two poeple are smiling and posing to a camera. You can see text: 'zaland' in the background.
A man is wearing a doctoral hat and looking proud. he is holding the hat with one hand. A roll-up can be seen on the background
Three men are looking at a screen with green lines and green number 72
Three people are standing next to a table and talking. Pop corn is on the table and behind them one green-colored wall with text Elven behind and another with blue boxes with text oomi.
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