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    VIRPI JALONEN

    ICF CERTIFIED LEADERSHIP & CAREER COACH

    FOUNDER OF THE CAREER ATELIER

    ORGANIZATION & TALENT DEVELOPMENT

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    I'M ON A MISSION TO...

     

    INSPIRE & RENEW

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    About Me

    Hi there!

    I'm an inspirational and business minded coach (ICF ACC certified) who has helped already over 200 people reach their career and business goals.

    Over the past 15 years, I have worked as HR and business developer in both big corporations and small startups, building great places to work, developing people and culture and providing top-notch HR & recruitment support for employees and leaders around the world. I've also been the CEO of a startup accelerator and have seen the ups and downs of entrepreneurship - which gives a lot of perspective also into business mentoring side.

    I'm enthusiastic about #TheFutureOfWork and how that is affecting people's careers and enjoy working in agile environments where I can help businesses and the people around me grow. I'm also a puzzle gamer, beach volley player and hobby artist.

    The best part of my work: those moments when people take their brave steps forward towards something new and succeed!

    Would be nice to meet you - let's connect in LinkedIn!

    Virpi

  • Skills

    Things I've picked up over the years

    career & business coaching

    Empowering people to reach their goals and getting their dream job. +400 coaching clients. +1300 coaching hours. +40 online workshops. +200 clients already employed or started their business. Creating, ramping up, leading and implementing The Shortcut's Career Coaching program. Associate Certified Coach by International Coaching Federation (ICF ACC). Certified assessor for few of the world's leading personality and behavioural assessment tools Occupational Personality Questionnaire OPQ & Everything DiSC. Ready to help you take your next career move!

    agile hr

    Partnering & constant development, building the best possible work experience, driving people strategy. Living and breathing the business. Being present. Listening. Change management. Using smart tools & solutions to support people in their daily work.

    LEADERSHIP

    Setting a vision, engaging the team and getting results. Transparency, servant leadership, effective communication, structure, reporting, good work-life balance and well-being belong to my leading toolkit. I also think it's important to have fun and build a positive culture together.

    international talent acquisition

    Thousands of CVs, +400 recruitments, 5 ramp ups of offices and games studios around the world (Finland, China, Sweden & Spain). Talent Matching. Relocation. Automation and A.I. Onboarding.

    development & collaboration

    Creating processes & product or service concepts from scratch. Turning needs into solutions.

    Fast iterations. Involving people. Developing further. Always towards collaboration & against silos.

    sales & marketing & branding

    Prospecting, B2C and B2B sales, business development. Social media marketing. Employer branding, self-branding, utilizing social media and networking in building your personal brand.

    languages & tools & METHODS

    English & Spanish & Finnish.

    Talentadore. Claned. Trello. Slack. Wordpress. Mailchimp. Preview. Holded. Teachable. Pipedrive. Wrike. Slack. Kanban. Lean canvas. Hubspot. Salesforce.

    Pretty post-its + back in my corporate days Success Factor & SAP R/3.

     

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    EXPERIENCE

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    coach

    Feb 2025 – present

    Transforming company cultures through coaching for clients and partners of Emocional, focusing on leadership, wellbeing, cultural change and organizational development.

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    leadership coach

    Mar 2024 – present

    Develop your leaders. Bring out the best in your people. Increase employee motivation, productivity and retention. Coaching is a superpower. It shouldn't just be for execs.

    EZRA is a people development platform offering accessible, high-impact coaching - delivered at scale. It's like face-to-face coaching, only more affordable (and you can do it
    without leaving home). Coaching, redesigned for the digital age. Now everyone can be better with a coach.

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    Career coach |head of career development| Program lead

    Apr 2021 – Present

    Helping The Shortcut's community members to achieve their career goals! Supporting especially international and long term unemployed talents in Finland Capital area through the Työ-SIB program. Nominated as the Program Lead for The Shortcut's Työ-SIB coaching program and as of Dec 2022 also leading the overall career development services. +400 coaching clients. +1300 coaching hours. +40 online workshops.

    Achievements

    • Creating, ramping up, leading and implementing The Shortcut's Career Coaching program for Työ-SIB
    • Scaling the coaching services and increasing the client volumes while ensuring high quality and service
    • +100 clients employed during the first 1,5 years!
    • Wonderful feedback from clients
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    modern career coach | founder | hr freelancer

    May 2018 - present, Online Globally

    The Career Atelier offers modern career coaching for those who want their dream job. Whether you need all-inclusive personal career support or a new awesome CV already for today, we'll help with every step.

     

    Check out our ONLINE CAREER COURSES and boost your career to a whole new level!

     

    Achievements

    • Creating sustainable and successful career coaching business from scratch
    • Receiving great feedback from clients and employing them
    • achieving long-term B2B customer collaborations 
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    C.E.O. | C.O.O. | renewal strategist

    Apr 2019 - Jun 2022

    At Nestholma we help new entrepreneurs to turn their ideas into success. Together with HR departments and outplacement companies, we help laid-off employees start a new chapter through their own business. We drive cultural transformation forward and coach employees and leaders to become more entrepreneurial and engage corporations and startups to collaborate worldwide. We organize renewal accelerators for new innovations and learnings. We are particularly good at helping the corporations become more agile and resilient and in making the collaboration actually happen.

    I started at Nestholma as Renewal Strategist and was after a year nominated to handle our operations and then to lead the Spain operations as CEO. After leaving the active role, I'm continuing as a board member and mentoring our startups.

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    hr business partner

    Mar 2015 – Jan 2019

    HR partner for Rovio's Business unit Hatch, providing full HR support to both the BU management team and employees.

    Achievements

    • Increasing the Rovio Hatch business unit's employee satisfaction survey results during 1H/2015 by driving the HR strategy and culture together with the Hatch leadership team

    On maternity & childcare leave Dec 2015 - Jan 2019.

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    team leader, global recruitment

    Oct 2012 – Feb 2015

    Ensuring and developing a world-class recruitment and induction process for Rovio globally. Building the new recruitment team setup and cooperation with Business Unit HR managers. Leading and coaching Rovio's recruitment team. Headcount planning. Creating recruitment reporting system. Recruitment contact for Games Stockholm & Games Tampere. Partnership and vendor cooperation. Employer Branding. Cooperation with schools and universities. Orientation and Induction development.

     

    Achievements

    • Pioneering by taking into usage video recruitment tool RecruitByNet (nowadays RecRight) to Rovio 2013 among the first companies in Finland
    • Leading Rovio's Global recruitment team with good spirit under big pressure and volumes

    On maternity leave April 2013 - February 2015.

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    Recruitment & Talent Manager

    Aug 2011 - Nov 2012

    Finding the best talent to work in Rovio and building up the whole HR services! Recruitment and sourcing, talent mining, employer branding, campus and university relations, recruitment training, HRD, relocation, ramping up new sites and games studios (Espoo & Tampere, Finland, Shanghai China, Stockholm Sweden). Coordinating the merge of Futuremark employees as part of Rovio Games unit and providing support for the employees during the transfer.

     

    Achievements

    Rovio Excellence Award 2012 from Mikael Hed, CEO "Award for demonstrating great Rovio attitude and spirit, excellent results in performance and quality and fantastic cooperation with colleagues and partners."

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    Recruiter & Talent Acquisition Manager

    Dec 2009 – Aug 2011

    Recruitment, re-employment and internal reorganizing in Nokia's Mobile Phones, Services, Finance & Control and HR units in Finland Region (Scandinavia, Eurasia and Eastern Europe). Recruitment fairs, campus cooperation with universities and students. Coordinating Finland's summer trainee recruitment and support in organizing a virtual induction program for the summer trainees globally. Coaching the Finland Region recruitment team and giving induction for the colleagues.

    Achievements

    • Nominated as one of the most innovative recruiters in Nokia globally for building employer image and increasing the engagement and transparency with fans
    • Nokia’s internal annual performance evaluation: Exceptional
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    HR Specialist & HR consultant

    Feb 2008 – Dec 2009

    Daily HR support for Finland's managers and employees via resource mailbox and HR call centre. Data administration and training of SAP R/3 and other tools. Ensuring strong support and cooperation with India HR team during and after the transfer. In the consultant role also developing ways of working and global mobility development project, recruitment.

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    Achievements

    • HR Specialist handling all system updates for Nokia's CEO and the Nokia Leadership team
    • Supporting the transfer and training of SAP R3 administration work from Finland into India, Chennai (2 month's assignment), with excellent feedback
    • Nokia’s internal annual performance evaluation: Exceptional
    Previous jobs and more info available in my LinkedIn profile!
  • HR freelancer Projects

    A selection of projects I've worked on during 2018-2019

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    helping +50 startups & the government of Spain

    4 month project for www.sptcv.net

    Guidance and support for over 50 startups in their application process for Distrito Digital, Alicante, Spain. A project of Generalitat Valenciana. Check out more info of the project from the local newspaper!

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    Ramping up alicante and business landing

    9 months project for www.businesslanding.fi

    Setting up the partners and business networks in Alicante, sales and ramp-ups, supporting startups in their expansion and recruitments to Spain.

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    hR Freelancing

    6 months project for www.wisar.co

    Career coaching for Ubiqum Code Academy in Barcelona and Berlin, interviewing, talent matching & implementing a video interview process for the award-winning talent matching startup Wisar in Sant Cugat del Vallés, Barcelona, Spain.

  • Education & learning

    Continuos learning is the only way to renew yourself.

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    Associate certified coach (icf Acc)

    International Coaching Federation

    Coaching accreditation course by The Solutions Academy: Solution Focused Coaching Fundamentals.

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    Helsinki University, Finland

    Approbatur (2008)

    Basic studies of psychology

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    haaga-helia university of applied sciences, Helsinki, Finland

    B.B.A in Economics, Human Resource Management (2001-2005)

    Main studies included development of personnel, work psychology, resourcing, recruiting, rewarding and planning of personnel, HR strategy, payroll, labour laws etc.
    Subject of the final thesis: Repatriation - The Challenges of Adjusting to Work and Utilizing the Experience

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    hochschule harz, Wernigerode, Germany

    Exchange student program (2004)

    Exchange student program of 4,5 months. Work psychology, economics, business administration.

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    WHAT MY CLIENTS, BOSSES AND TEAM MATES SAY

    JEREMY KLEIDOSTY

    Career Coaching Client at The Shortcut

    "Virpi is a person of great empathy, detailed advice, and action. Her skill in mentoring, matching talent to the firms looking for it, and in careful listening give her an ability to spot competencies, opportunities, and chances for development that mentees may be completely unaware of. I was so impressed by her warmth, professionalism, and carefully laid out method to mentoring unemployed and underemployed professionals. During our sessions in a season where I was lacking new contract work, she helped me to spot skills and abilities from my CV, put them forward more boldly to employers, and to make connections that helped me to land a new role with a great startup."

    Kristina sweet

    CEO at The Shortcut

    "Virpi is super kind, empathetic and brings with her both corporate and startup experience. She has a real HR vibe and is completely invested in helping people. And while her passion is on helping people she also has ensured the commercial side of the work is well managed. She has built the coaching program, nearly from scratch, delivering over 30% of our total 6 year cumulative impact in less than one year. Virpi's ability to always see the good, the potential and a sunny future is such a part of who she is that it is hard not to feel better when around her."

    kAREEMA aARONSON

    Your Online Business Growth Partner at Rainforest Digital

    "Working with Virpi was an absolute pleasure. Her years of experience in HR shine through her work. Her attention to detail, flexibility and insights all made a perfect combination for a seamless collaboration. I would absolutely recommend teaming up with Virpi no matter what career stage you might be at, her expert advice will be well worth it!

    Petri järvilehto

    Chief Creative Officer and Co-Founder at Seriously

    "I worked with Virpi a few years while we were building up Rovio's Games Unit and scaling up fast. She was excellent and reliable in building process, structure and managing HR functions in an environment that was in a constant state of change."

    anna feodorow

    Making sure the Supercellians have the best possible work experience

    "Outstandingly effective is how I would describe Virpi! I had the pleasure of working with her at Rovio during a rapid growth period of the company. Not only was Virpi a part of building the global recruitment team from scratch, she was also able to continuously come up with improvement ideas for the whole HR field. Virpi can juggle a wide variety of projects and still always manages to have a great, positive attitude. Any team would be lucky to have Virpi as their team member and leader!"

    CARITA POUSSA

    CEO at Pasafin Oy

    "I worked with Virpi for over two years. She was an incredibly valuable member of our recruitment team. Her HR generalist background gave a strong starting point for her recruitment career. She was able to handle large volumes and made sure her work was top quality as well. It is a pleasure to work with Virpi; she spreads positive energy around her and she is always willing to help and teach. Virpi can work at all levels; she is at home when planning at strategic level and she can handle all practical details as well. I wish her all the best in her future career. "

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    INTERESTED IN COLLABORATION

    OR GETTING A BOOST FOR YOUR CAREER?

    LET'S GET IN TOUCH!

    virpi.k.jalonen@gmail.com

    +34 69 445 1550

    +358 50 487 2578

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