Study of talent accelerators' impact on the career of internatonal students case company : The Startup Shortcut oy
Le, Duyen (2020)
Le, Duyen
2020
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2020072219586
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2020072219586
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Although the concept of accelerator has grown exponentially under the forms of start-up or business accelerator, talent accelerator and its role are still not explicitly identified. This thesis explores the concept of talent accelerator and investigates its impact on international students’ career within Finnish market.
Based on deductive approach, the study presents existing knowledge on the concept of accelerator to present its characteristics and its connection with the notion of social enterprise. While investigating on the case company, a SWOT analysis is performed, and the Entrepreneur Competence framework is applied for further analysis. The thesis then describes the general impact of talent accelerator on foreign students in terms of competency, skills and networking. After that, both quantitative and qualitative data methods will be applied in data collection for research purposes. The process of data collection is conducted based on the case company’s own database, as well as semi-structured interview with both participants from the case company’s development programs and human resources experts. In conclusion, I found out that most of international students and human resources experts acknowledge the advantages of talent accelerator and its role in the early stages of career development. Furthermore, the study gives a picture about talent accelerator’s impacts on the individuals’ psychology, unemployment matter and the existence of unconscious bias in recruitment process .Lastly, the research shows that talent accelerator significantly supports international students in associating within Finnish market, which leads to more opportunities for international workforce and avoids brain drain phenomenon on Finnish labour market.
KEYWORDS:
Talent Accelerator, International students, Impact, Career, Skills, Competence, Networking.
Based on deductive approach, the study presents existing knowledge on the concept of accelerator to present its characteristics and its connection with the notion of social enterprise. While investigating on the case company, a SWOT analysis is performed, and the Entrepreneur Competence framework is applied for further analysis. The thesis then describes the general impact of talent accelerator on foreign students in terms of competency, skills and networking. After that, both quantitative and qualitative data methods will be applied in data collection for research purposes. The process of data collection is conducted based on the case company’s own database, as well as semi-structured interview with both participants from the case company’s development programs and human resources experts. In conclusion, I found out that most of international students and human resources experts acknowledge the advantages of talent accelerator and its role in the early stages of career development. Furthermore, the study gives a picture about talent accelerator’s impacts on the individuals’ psychology, unemployment matter and the existence of unconscious bias in recruitment process .Lastly, the research shows that talent accelerator significantly supports international students in associating within Finnish market, which leads to more opportunities for international workforce and avoids brain drain phenomenon on Finnish labour market.
KEYWORDS:
Talent Accelerator, International students, Impact, Career, Skills, Competence, Networking.