Recruiting Active People
RAP is back! The Recruiting Active People recruitment event will take place on 4 November 2025. Don’t miss this chance and get ready to network with interesting employers!
4.11.2025 at 11:00 – 14:30
Lecture hall 124 & Amphi, Talonpojankatu Campus
About the event
Welcome to the Recruiting Active People event, aimed at Centria and Kpedu engineering and business students! This is a special opportunity to get acquainted with the companies in the industrial parks of Pietarsaari and Kokkola (AIP and KIP) and hear directly from the exhibitors about career opportunities in the area.
Event Highlights:
- Company Presentations: Meet leading companies in the area and learn about the career opportunities they offer.
- Networking: Create valuable contacts and talk directly with company representatives.
- Guided Tour: Join a bus tour and explore the industrial areas.
Alholmen Industrial Park (AIP) in Pietarsaari is home to eight industrial companies and 53 service companies, with a strong focus on sustainability and circular economy.
Kokkola Industrial Park (KIP) is Northern Europe’s largest ecosystem of inorganic chemical industry, hosting 16 industrial companies and over 60 service companies.
You can take your CV photograph at the event.
The event is bilingual and contains programme in English and Finnish. The event is co-organised by Centria, Kpedu, KIP and AIP.
Programme
9.00–11.00 AIP – bus tour (Registration needed)
11.00–11.45 Introduction of the industrial parks and companies’ elevator pitches in Amphi
11.45–14.30 Recruitment fair – About 30 companies present
14.45 KIP – bus tour (Registration needed)
Companies that are participating
- AFRY
- Alholmen Industrial Park
- Billerud Finland Oy
- Boliden Kokkola Oy
- CABB Oy
- Caverion Suomi Oy
- Centria RDI
- Centria UAS continuous learning
- Eurofins Nab Lab Oy
- Good Fellas Oy
- Hycamite TCD Technologies Ltd.
- Jakobstad region Development Company Concordia
- Jervois Finland Oy
- Kokkolan Energia
- Kokkola Industrial Park’s Association
- KOSEK (Kokkolanseudun Kehitys Oy)
- KPedu Osuvakoulutus
- OSTP Finland Oy Ab
- Sjöblom Infra Oy
- TETRA Chemicals Europe Oy
- Umicore Finland Oy
- UPM
- Walki Oy
- Yara Suomi Oy