Career Design Lab

Career Design Lab

is a learning hub for shaping sustainable and meaningful careers

OrangeCDL

Career design is a creative approach for leading your career with meaning, experimentation, and collaboration. Creating a path that is sustainable in terms of your wellbeing and impact while finding meaningfulness is at the core of what career design aims for.

At Career Design Lab, we provide research-based, creative services and collaborate with the Aalto University community and partners. We support Aalto students and alumni in career design, collaborate with alumni and organizations, connect employers with Aalto talent and help all lifewide learners prepare for the future of work. Let’s shape a sustainable future of work – together!

Career Design Lab illustration

Career Design Lab Blog (external link)

This blog provide insights on how work is changing and how you can design a meaningful career path.

News

See all
People gathered outside a modern building with circular windows, reflected in glass. Trees and green grass in the background.
Cooperation, Studies, University Published:

Register for the Transregional Online Living Labs Day 2026

Join Unite!’s international, online conference to explore how University Campus Living Labs connect research, education and practice.
Four people standing in a spacious indoor area with signs above them. The floor is tiled and walls are white.
Appointments, Cooperation Published:

Hannu Martola appointed as Chair of the Aalto University Alumni Network Board

The board’s new members are Esa Arola, Eila Lindroos and Terttu Sopanen. Continuing members are Ari Bertula, Ossi Leikola, Laura Nikola and Katja Soini.
HiFive research group: Joni Lappalainen, Juho Silmukari, Martina Čaić, Anna Viljakainen, Virpi Roto. Photo: Mikko Raskinen
Cooperation, Research & Art Published:

Design strengthens industrial competitiveness – human-centered factory work at the core

Factory work is undergoing a transformation: new technologies and artificial intelligence are changing the content and roles of work. Aalto University’s Department of Design is studying this change from a human-centered perspective in the HiFive project.
Alum Ding Ma
Cooperation Published:

Alum Ding Ma: 'I want to represent a new-era Mayor'

Ding Ma, who will start as the Mayor of Savonlinna at the age of 37, studied Information and Service Management at the School of Business.
See all
Instagram
LinkedIn
JobTeaser for students
See student jobs, career events and more
Two people talking at an indoor event. One wears a checked shirt and holds a cup, the other wears a black top with arms crossed.

Career Services for School of Business students

Aalto University School of Business Career Services offer a wide range of services to our students.

School of Business
Graduation Party 2022

For alumni

As an alum, you are part of Aalto community. Let's stay connected and develop together!

a group of students sitting and laying on the grass, two are reading a book.

Advancement

We develop alumni activities and build relationships with donors.

Services
  • Updated:
  • Published:
Share
URL copied!