Are you an international Master’s or PhD student in Sweden looking to kick-start your professional career? Or a company seeking talented international graduates to join your team?
Join us for International Career Day, a national event designed to connect top talent with leading companies in Sweden while offering valuable insights on career development for international students.
Why attend?
For students:
- Inspiring Seminars: Gain valuable insights on building your professional path in Sweden, navigating the job market, and developing essential career skills.
For companies:
- Discover and Inspire Top Talent: Meet motivated and highly skilled international Master’s and PhD students who bring global perspectives and diverse skill sets.
Program
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Hela Galvis
Project Manager, Switch to Sweden – Welcome to the Career Lab!
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Linnéa Lindgren
Communications Manager, Study in Sweden (Swedish Institute) – Key resources and an overview about careers in Sweden.
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Johanna Judkins
Interim CHRO, Coretura – An HR perspective on international recruitment
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Greg Fernando
Founder, New to Sweden – Get ready to work and find extra support to start your career in Sweden
Short presentations and panel:
Listen to the voice of experience from an international professionals.
Presentations:
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Nicoleta Bobescu
AI Engineer, Axis Communications
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Ganesh Giri
Development Engineer- Tetra Pak
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Aloge Allen
IT Technician – Einride
Speakers
Johanna Judkins
Chief Human Resources Officer, Coretura
Johanna is a business-minded leader with deep international and multicultural experience across various industries. She has a long track record of leading, developing, and building organizations and companies from both an HR and business perspective As CHRO at Coretura she’s building the team behind one of the most ambitious and anticipated software-defined vehicle platforms in the world. Bringing together talents to define a new industry standard with a can do mindset.
Additional experience:
- Started at AstraZeneca in 2001, where she spent over a decade attracting, recruiting, and relocating talents from around the world into Sweden but also between other countries.
- Built HR Functions including Global Mobility at several companies, including Geely in Gothenburg (CEVT and Geely Design), helping international hires settle and succeed in Sweden.
- Leads training in talent management, international recruitment, and Global Mobility — the practical side of making cross-border career moves work.
- Has run her own consultancy, Judkins Consulting AB, since 2012, advising companies on how to attract and retain international talent.
Linnéa Lindgren
Communications Manager, Study in Sweden, Swedish Institute
Linnéa works at the Swedish Institute, a public agency that promotes interest and trust in Sweden around the world. She is a marketing manager working with the brands Study in Sweden and Work in Sweden with a specific goal of retaining more international students in Sweden after their studies.
Greg Fernando
Founder, New to Sweden
Greg is the founder of New to Sweden, a nonprofit organization working towards a more integrated and inclusive labour market where internationals can contribute and thrive. New to Sweden is focused on creating sustainable, long-term solutions by guiding international jobseekers with career guidance workshops, collaborating with employers (working with partners such as Google, Securitas, Vattenfall and Nordea), and engaging with Swedish communities on different inclusion initiatives.
Ganesh Giri
Development Engineer - Tetra Pak
I came to Sweden in 2020 to pursue my PhD in Sensory Physiology at the Medical Faculty of Lund University. After completing my doctoral studies, I joined Tetra Pak as a Development Engineer. In my current role, I explore and evaluate technologies for measuring a wide range of parameters used to test our packages and packaging materials. Development of new measurement instruments and machine vision systems are something that I enjoy doing in my current role .
Nicoleta Bobescu
AI Engineer at Axis Communications
Nicoleta works on machine translation and model evaluation. Her academic background includes linguistics, computational social science, and data science. Her work focuses on the intersection of language and machine learning, including natural language processing (NLP) and generative AI.
Aloge Allen Anyabe
IT Technician – Einride
Hela Galvis
Project Manager Switch to Sweden
Hela Galvis works as a project manager for the national project Switch to Sweden, which aims to improve the matching between highly skilled international talents and companies in Sweden’s tech sector.
Hela holds a master’s degree in business administration with a focus on strategy and management of international organizations from Linköping University. She has extensive experience in both local and international business environments, with a focus on technology, marketing, and communication.
