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Tampere Col­lege of Ser­vices

Baker-​confectioner

A baker-​confectioner is a bak­ing pro­fes­sional who makes for ex­ample bread, cakes, jelly rolls, pastries and bis­cuits. The con­fec­tioner’s tasks may also in­clude the selling of the products. The work is largely manual, but it also in­cludes the use of dif­fer­ent equip­ment. The pro­fes­sion re­quires di­gital dex­ter­ity, ac­cur­acy and cus­tomer ser­vice skills.

Baker-​confectioners work in baker­ies, con­fec­tion­er­ies, cafes, res­taur­ants, ca­ter­ing com­pan­ies, and in the bread sec­tions and bak­ing centres in stores.

Busi­ness and Ad­min­is­tra­tion

The Vo­ca­tional Qual­i­fic­a­tion in Busi­ness and Ad­min­is­tra­tion pre­pares the stu­dent for many dif­fer­ent pro­fes­sions in private com­pan­ies, in the pub­lic sec­tor and in dif­fer­ent  or­gan­isa­tions. The pro­fes­sion re­quires an ori­ent­a­tion for cus­tomer ser­vice and sales.

The gradu­ates can work in cus­tomer ser­vice tasks, or in busi­ness, of­fice and ac­count­ing tasks; they can work for com­pan­ies, the state, mu­ni­cip­al­it­ies or con­greg­a­tions. The qual­i­fic­a­tion also of­fers wide-​ranging basic in­form­a­tion of found­ing a com­pany and work­ing as an en­tre­pren­eur.

Cook

A cook plans and pre­pares meals for res­taur­ant cus­tom­ers. The work in­cludes the pre-​processing, pro­cessing and cook­ing of dif­fer­ent raw ma­ter­i­als and semi-​finished products. The pro­fes­sion re­quires manual skills, cre­ativ­ity and good senses of col­our, taste and smell.

Cooks work in dif­fer­ent res­taur­ants, in­dus­trial kit­chens, cafes, and event and ca­ter­ing com­pan­ies.

House­keeper

A house­keeper of­fers care, nurs­ing and as­sist­ance in the house­work. The pro­fes­sion re­quires a prac­tical and meth­od­o­lo­gical ap­proach, com­mu­nic­a­tion skills, sense of re­spons­ib­il­ity and genu­ine caring about the cus­tom­ers’ well-​being.

A house­keeper works at the cus­tom­ers’ homes, cafes, ca­ter­ing ser­vices and com­pan­ies of­fer­ing house­keep­ing ser­vices. The gradu­ates have ex­cel­lent eem­ploy­ment op­por­tun­it­ies as per­sonal as­sist­ants within the so­cial and health care sec­tor.

In­form­a­tion and Com­mu­nic­a­tions Tech­no­logy

A pro­fes­sional within in­form­a­tion and com­mu­nic­a­tions tech­no­logy main­tains in­form­a­tion sys­tems, par­ti­cip­ates in the train­ing of users, and sells and mar­kets the products re­lated to the in­dustry. The pro­fes­sion re­quires good tech­no­lo­gical know-​how, ser­vice ori­ent­a­tion and co­oper­a­tion skills.

The gradu­ates work for in­form­a­tion tech­no­logy com­pan­ies that make soft­ware and offer ser­vices and con­sult­ing re­lated to the use of in­form­a­tion tech­no­logy, data­base ser­vices and con­tent pro­duc­tion.

Prac­tical Nurse

The work of a prac­tical nurse is basic care work con­sist­ing of edu­ca­tional, care and re­hab­il­it­a­tion tasks. The wide-​ranging qual­i­fic­a­tion provides the pre­con­di­tions for flex­ible trans­itions within the so­cial and health care sec­tor. Human re­la­tion and in­ter­ac­tion skills are cent­ral in the pro­fes­sion.

Prac­tical nurses work in day­care, schools, home ser­vices, ser­vice and activ­ity centres for the dis­abled, day hos­pit­als, health centre wards, as­sisted liv­ing com­munit­ies, re­tire­ment homes and hos­pit­als.

Pre-​vocational stud­ies

These stud­ies have been de­veloped for the trans­ition point between basic edu­ca­tion and upper sec­ond­ary level. They are aimed at sup­port­ing suc­cess­ful trans­itions from one level to the next as well as en­dors­ing the con­tinu­ity of stu­dents’ lifelong study tracks.

Prior to start­ing edu­ca­tion lead­ing to an upper sec­ond­ary vo­ca­tional qual­i­fic­a­tion, stu­dents may apply for pre-​vocational pro­grammes pre­par­ing for vo­ca­tional stud­ies, where ne­ces­sary.

The stud­ies are dir­ec­ted at young people without a clear idea of their ca­reer choice or without suf­fi­cient cap­ab­il­it­ies to apply for or cope with vo­ca­tional stud­ies.  The stud­ies last ap­prox­im­ately one year (60 cred­its) and each stu­dent stud­ies in ac­cord­ance with his or her in­di­vidual study plan. We provide the stu­dents with the op­por­tun­ity to:

Re­cep­tion­ist

Re­cep­tion­ist works in ho­tels and other tour­ist ac­com­mod­a­tion es­tab­lish­ments.

Site Fa­cil­it­ies Op­er­at­ive

A site fa­cil­it­ies op­er­ator works in the clean­ing tasks of res­id­en­tial prop­er­ties, in­dus­trial es­tab­lish­ments, vehicles or com­mer­cial fa­cil­it­ies. In ad­di­tion, the tasks may in­clude the clean­ing of build­ings under con­struc­tion, tak­ing care of yards, small-​scale main­ten­ance work and lobby or care­taker ser­vices.  The work re­quires ser­vice ori­ent­a­tion, punc­tu­al­ity, ini­ti­at­ive and as­sum­ing re­spons­ib­il­ity.

Site fa­cil­it­ies op­er­at­ors may work at schools, of­fices, sports fa­cil­it­ies, factor­ies, res­id­en­tial prop­er­ties, air­ports, shop­ping centres, ho­tels, res­taur­ants, vehicles or con­struc­tion sites.

Tour­ism activ­it­ies or­gan­izer

This qual­i­fic­a­tion will provide you with well-​developed tour­ism ser­vice and op­er­a­tional skills work­ing in tasks in­volving pro­du­cing tour­ism activ­it­ies and cus­tomer ser­vice re­lated to the im­ple­ment­a­tion of tour­ism ser­vices. You will learn to provide ex­cep­tional cus­tomer ser­vice as well as design­ing, mar­ket­ing and selling tour­ism activ­it­ies.

Waiter

A waiter presents meals and drinks to cus­tom­ers, re­ceives or­ders, serves the meals and drinks and de­liv­ers the bill to the cus­tom­ers. Flex­ib­il­ity, or­gan­isa­tional skills and ser­vice ori­ent­a­tion are the basic de­mands for waiters, who work within sales and cus­tomer ser­vice in dif­fer­ent types of res­taur­ants.

Waiters work at hotel res­taur­ants, din­ing res­taur­ants, lunch or per­son­nel res­taur­ants, dance res­taur­ants, pubs, nightclubs, dis­cos, music bars, res­taur­ant cars and ships.

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