Herizon Community Newsletter 6/2025

Hello friend! We can't quite believe it ourselves either, but it's finally June! While the warm summer weather is not rushing to manifest itself yet, we're expecting nice weather for our Annual Summer Picnic ☀️

What picnic? And what else is still to come this summer? Read it all below 👇

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Herizon Annual Community Picinic is here! 💜

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How to be at the right place at the right time when it's impossible to know beforehand when and where that "right" moment is going to happen? Making serendipity happen might be less random than you think!

Hiring non-native workers is good business and here’s the data to prove it

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We all know hiring diverse is a great strategy for growth but now there's even more data to back it up. Our founder Mari shares her perspective on why hiring non-native employees is important in the light of recent research data.

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🗓️ Upcoming Events

• Annual Community Summer Picnic / meetup (event link)
• Build a content bank with Mari Luukkainen / workshop (event link)
• Weekly mentoring sessions / keynote + Q&A (event link)

Weekly recurring community events:

• ONLINE Networking coffee (event link)
• ONLINE Speaking Finnish together (event link)
• F2F Weekly co-working sessions at Oodi Library (event link)

Want to join our member events? Head to join.herizon.io to become a Herizon community member!

New events coming soon 👀

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Happy approaching midsummer and joyful pride month! ☀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

-Viivi + Herizon team

P.S. Does your organization want to support our mission to find jobs for 10 000 global talent in the Nordics? We're always happy to find ways to collaborate through company excursions, internships and more! Reach out to viivi@herizon.io for collaboration opportunities 💜