As an employer, the employment authority provides you with advice and assistance in filling a vacancy and information on your sector’s jobseekers and the labour market situation. Financial support may be granted to employers if the person employed is unemployed or the person’s disability or illness requires other support.

Employment services for employers include the publication of jobs, the provision of information on vacancies, the application and presentation of jobseeker candidates, and the organisation of recruitment events.

Joint procurement training is labour market training that the employment authority can organise together with the employer, the commissioner of the person intending to become an entrepreneur or the company transferring its business rights so that they participate in the funding of the training.

The employment authority gives employees and employers advice and support when an employment relationship is changed or terminated.

The employment authority helps laid-off and dismissed employees find new work or training in cooperation with employer representatives and staff or their representatives.

Advice and support for employees

In vocational guidance and career planning, you discuss the choice of profession, professional development, placement in the world of work and lifelong learning confidentially with a counsellor.

A licensed psychologist may also, with your consent, use psychological assessment methods to examine professional and career options, competence, suitability and work and functional capacity.

In vocational and career guidance, you will have confidential discussions with a counselor about career choice, professional development, entering the workforce, and lifelong learning.

Employment authorities may grant you discretionary expense allowance when you participate in a service that supports your employment as agreed in your employment plan or a plan replacing it. You can receive compensation from the employment authority if you incur inevitable costs for participating in a service and you do not receive unemployment security from Kela or an unemployment fund.

Expense allowance can be paid for your participation in

The cooperation model of multidisciplinary support that promotes employment helps you find employment if you need comprehensive support. The aim of the service is to remove obstacles to employment related to, for example, your life situation, state of health, work and functional capacity, and talents and vocational skills.

As an employer, the employment authority provides you with advice and assistance in filling a vacancy and information on your sector’s jobseekers and the labour market situation. Financial support may be granted to employers if the person employed is unemployed or the person’s disability or illness requires other support.

Employment services for employers include the publication of jobs, the provision of information on vacancies, the application and presentation of jobseeker candidates, and the organisation of recruitment events.

When you register as a jobseeker, you start your job search and customer relationship with the employment services of your region. As a jobseeker, you can apply for unemployment benefit from Kela or your unemployment fund.

The employment authority advises and guides you in applying for work and offers other services that help you integrate and get work. Such services may include integration training and multilingual social orientation, where you can find information about Finnish society.

As an employer, you can receive support for arranging working conditions if the disability or illness of a person you are going to employ or who is already employed by you requires

• new tools or furniture
• alterations to be made at the workplace or
• assistance provided by another employee.

The subsidy improves the chances of people with demand-specific work ability
to find suitable employment or to keep their job in the open labour market.

You can get information and advice from the employment authority in your region when you need more information about employment services.

You will receive information and advice on, for example,

• job search
• learning opportunities
• labour availability and acquisition
• labour market
• entrepreneurship
• services related to change security.

You can get information and advice from the employment authority in your region when you need more information about employment services.