Osaamistani ovat:
I have graduated from University of Jyväskylä in May 2011. My major was speech communication. My largest minor was media studies from University of Turku. I did made my speech communication's profession in development and leadership in work environment and my bachelor thesis did focus on technology-mediated communication. I did made my masters' thesis from "Young adults' mobile use of social network sites". In this study I did use as a background theory Uses and Gratifications research.
Expertise
My expertise is in speech communication, which focus on human communication. Communication can happen between two or more people. It can be face-to-face or technology-mediated communication. My main focus in speech communication is technology-mediated communication, from which I have made both of my theses. Another focus in speech communication I have had in development and leadership in work environment, from which I have made my speech communication's profession course. I also have expertise from i.e. project-, team- and group skills and also from media studies. In my studies I have made qualitative and quantitative research.
Education
I have done my bachelor and master's degree from speech communication in University of Jyväskylä. My major was speech communication and my largest minor was media studies from University of Turku. My other minors' are pedagogics from University of Jyväskylä and communication and political lobbying from University of Ulster. I have also taken several courses from IT.
Research experience
I have excellent data and previous research searching techniques. I have done both qualitative and quantitative research. I have used topic interview method and done web questionnaires. I have also analysed media content and its discourses.
Communicational accomplishments
My most important communicational achievement is masters' thesis on "Young adults' mobile use of social network sites". I did do this in co-operation with the Ministery of Transport and Communications. I did make this thesis by using quantitative method. For this research I did combine old sample methods and I named it for network sample. My second important achievement is bachelor thesis which I did make with Akseli Paavola. It did focus on adolecents and their parents' thoughts about adolecents instant messaging.
Autumn 2009 I did participated development and leadership in work environment -speech communication profession course, in which we did a consultation for a company. I have also being earlier a part of consultation group, when I did take project studies in working life -course. As a part of consultation we made a questionnaire for employees. From this questionnaire we made information event for company's superiors. I have also held speech communications' basic course two times at University of Turku in spring 2007.
Work experience
I am now working as a trainer of information management. Before I have had long experience of working with people by providing services for them as well as selling them products. To see more check my CV.
International experience
I have been exchange student at University of Ulster in North-Ireland and done backpacking in Europe. In Finland I have been student advisor for exchange students. I have also had different nationalities flat mates for example people from Japan, Malaysia, Jordan, France, America and Peru. I have also taken Presentation Skills and Business Etiquette -course where we talked about what to notice when you are dealing different cultures.
Language skills
Finnish is my mother language. My English's comprehensive skills are excellent and written and speech skills are very good. For example most of my thesis' literature is in English and I have been an exchange student. I have passed "akademisk svenska" -course so my Swedish skills are satisfactory.
Technology experience
I am now trainee of information management so I know how IT is working and I can also explain it. I can also explain, how people are using communication technology and how to use it even better. I can also see the needs and benefits of new communication technology and applications. I am able to explain those through communication research and theory because I have done research in this field.
I have also excellent skills of using software. I use constantly Windows and OS X operating systems. I have also used Linux and Unix. I have excellent skills of using Microsoft's and Open Offices' Office-packages. Another programs, which are worth of mention, are Adobe's Photoshop and Premier pro. I have made my network portfolio by using HTML-Kit and Smultron. I have used SPSS for analysing my research results.
Event organizing
I have organized small-scale events where I have used social networking sites, like Facebook. My biggest organized event was a movie night in University of Turku's student sororities during Osakuntaviikko. There we had two spaces where to show films and one room where we had media art. The movies were from universities and universities of applied science across Finland. I have also been member of team which was running student bar S-Osis.
Hobbies
During summer I roller-skating and go to cabin. During whole year I do swimming, theatre and students' association stuff. In theatre I usually do lights and sounds. Now I am starting again visiting to gym. I have also done improvisation but now I haven't found a good group to be in. I also like to watch movies and documentaries. Movies varies from Harry Potter to Sergei Eisenstein's movies.
Pauli Rekola 3.10.2011