We are recruiting tutors for the term 2025-2026

Tutors guide and advise new HAMK students to become part of the student community. Tutors promote a positive study community where students feel they belong. They act as an important link, and convey information about the practical arrangements of studies and other matters related to starting studies.

The application period for tutoring for the academic year 2025-2026 starts on Monday, January 13, and ends on Sunday,February 2, 2025. The tutor training consists of two training days on April 3rd and August 15th, 2025.

How to apply?

If you’re interested in organizing fun events as well as meeting and helping new students, fill out an online application form no later than February 2, 2025.

All applicants will be interviewed during February and the new tutors will be chosen after the interviews. Interviewing schedule will be informed to the applicants by email after the application period. All applicants will be informed about the decisions by email.

Tutors’ responsibilities and obligations   

Tutoring is fun and you will gain a lot from the experience. Nevertheless, you shouldn’t become a tutor just to have fun – tutors have responsibilities, too. Peer tutor period is for one year and after a year in peer tutoring you can apply to continue as a responsible tutor for another year. Tutors must participate in the trainings and be active on their free time, too. They need to fulfill the tasks defined in the tutor contract and be responsible guides for the new students. Receiving proper guidance at the beginning of studies is extremely important.

What’s in it for you?

You are a tutor after finishing the compulsory trainings. As a tutor, you will make new friends, gain valuable experiences and also receive ECTS credits. Tutoring is a course, during which you will collect markings from the tasks you perform in your portfolio and at the end of your tutoring term, you will receive credits according to these portfolio entries. You can obtain 3-5 ECTS credits from tutoring, depending on your tasks and how active you are.

Please remember that you can only obtain the credits after attending to both parts of the basic training and working as a tutor for an entire tutoring period.

Compulsory tutor trainings 2025:

• Tutors’ training days
  • April 3, 2025 in Hämeenlinna University Centre
  • August 15, 2025 (Place will be informed later)

More information:

Adviser in charge of tutoring, Emma Kokkonen.

Contact Emma:
emma.kokkonen@hamko.fi
+358 44 722 1002