1. Jobhunting in Finland How to Manage?

2. Work in Finland
Finland is one of best places in the world to live and work. The Finnish labour market and Finland’s workplaces operate on a foundation of equality and fairness. |

3. Before moving to Finland
Job seeking abroad requires more time and preparations than job seeking in your native country. Before you move to Finland, carefully familiarise yourself with Finnish working life and customs so that you will be able to adapt to the change and take care of matters as smoothly as possible. Your move will be more comfortable if you are properly informed. |

4. Make sure your permit matters are in order
passport or official EU identity card
A citizen of the EU, Liechtenstein, Switzerland or the Nordic countries, no need for a residence permit in order to be able to work, study or start a business in Finland
make sure that the necessary registrations are in order when you arrive in Finland.
Other country - you will have to apply for a residence permit for an employed person while still in your country of origin. You must have a job in Finland before you can be granted the permit
A residence permit for an employed person is valid in one or several occupational sectors. The permit is either temporary or continuous |

5. When in Finland Take care of any necessary registrations
Enter into an employment contract
Open a bank account
Find out about tax matters
Apply for a tax card at the local tax office
Remember occupational safety
Improve your language skills |

6. Is your qualification eligble in Finland?
In many jobs, it is enough that your employer finds your professional competence suitable. If the qualifications required in a profession are laid down by law, you will need a decision on the recognition of your qualifications
Professions that require a recognition decision can be found in health care and teaching, for instance
In some fields, you will be required to acquire a pass or card in order to prove your proficiency in a certain area
Before acquiring a pass or a card, you usually participate in training that ends with the actual test. The tests are usually subject to a fee. |

7. Application, CV and interview
Tailor your application and CV for each job you apply for. Explain how you meet the selection criteria and what your strengths would be in the available position
Write a comprehensive, one-page application and accompany it with your CV
Your CV should contain your personal and contact details and a summary of your educational background and work history
Make sure, however, that your CV does not become too long
Carefully prepare for interviews. Find out information about the employer in advance and think about questions you could ask about the employer or the job during the interview |

8. Find out the terms and conditions of employment
As an employee, the same terms and conditions of employment and occupational safety requirements apply to you as to Finnish employees.
You have the right to pay and other terms of employment that comply with the collective agreement and protection provided by law 
perform your work carefully and observe the instruction
obligation also for keeping business and trade secrets |

9. Tips for finding a job!
Always read the instructions how to apply for a job!
Be active
Be flexible
Use many different channels to look for work
Make sure that you have good jobseeking skills and that your documents up to date
Training or a work try-out could open doors to an interesting job
Make sure that your vocational skills and competence are up to date
Use the social media to find a job
Have you considered starting a business as one option for finding work? |

10. Employment and business services are provided under the Act on Public Employment and Business Service
Employment and Economic Development Offices (TE Offices) offer services to unemployed, those who are currently working or entering the working life as well as employers.
There are total of 15 regional TE Offices with over 100 outlets all over Finland.
TE Offices offer individual customer service and Internet based services that jobseekers and employers can use on their own.
Individual clients are offered services in the areas of job seeking, career planning, occupational rehabilitation and entrepreneurship. TE Office gives advice also on applying for unemployment benefits and provides support for accessing to employment in different ways.
For employers TE Office offers for example recruiting and training services and advice when reduction of personnel is needed |

11. Customer oriented and open
Clear-cut and versatile services for individual customers and companies, organisations and other employer customers
Effective, adequate and consistent services of a uniform standard throughout the country
Ever improving possibilities of using the services online, on the telephone or face to face, whatever suits the customer best. |

12. Open vacancies service in Finland (www.te-palvelu.fi)|

13. CV-netti service for jobseekers
As a jobseeker, you can place your own advertisement in the free CV-netti service provided by the employment and economic development services. You do not have to be unemployed, or even a TE Office customer to do so. The service is available for all jobseekers: those wishing to change jobs, students, the unemployed and those entering working life for the first time.
You will need an online banking identification code to submit a jobseeker's ad. Identification is required to protect your personal data |

14. Employment and Business Services
Particular tasks
Assessing and analysing the customer's service needs
Employment services
Personnel development
Services related to lay-offs and redundancies
Services for new entrepreneurs and enterprise development services
Cooperation in partner networks
Coordination of cooperation with companies, organisations and other employers |

15. Use many different channels to look for work
In addition to the TE Office, try - papers and company websites - recruitment sites on the Internet, private recruitment companies and CV databases - recruitment events and fairs - your network of family and friends, including your old colleagues - getting in touch with companies directly – submit an open application or ask for a meeting |

16. Use the social media to find a job
Employers also look for employees in the social media – especially for expert positions. By making efficient use of the social media, you may stand out from other candidates. Consider which media would allow you to reach the employers you are interested in most efficiently. Also consider what others can find out about you through the social media Create and take care of your profiles and social media personality in: LinkedIn profile, update! Facebook, take care of your information! Create introduction video to Youtube for example! Create your own blog or website – plenty of free platforms available! |

17. EURES – European Employment Services
The purpose of EURES is to provide information, advice and recruitment/placement (job-matching) services for the benefit of workers and employers as well as any citizen wishing to benefit from the principle of the free movement of persons. EURES has a human network of more than 850 EURES advisers that are in daily contact with jobseeker and employers across Europe |

18. Multichannel Employment and Business Services

19. Employment and business services as an expert service
Online
te-services.fi offers individual customers and employers information and a channel for versatile service use
enterprisefinland.fi offers companies or those interested in starting a company information about enterprising and public business services, as well as possibilities of using online services |

20. Employment and business services as an expert service
At the branch offices
The facilities concept supports the provision of multi-channel TE services
Face to face
On the telephone
By video link
Through expert work where the customer is not present
NB! As a rule, an appointment must be made to use the customer services. However, at least one of the branches in a TE Office's operating area must be open for service use without an appointment from 9 a.m. till 4 p.m. |

21. Unemployment rates by administrative districts 27. 1
Unemployment rates by administrative districts (finnish labour administrations rates, not Eurostats official rates) |

23. Labour market information - Top workers/professional in demand
Doctors
Therapists
Dentists
Special education teachers
Sales experts
Nurses and special healthcare professionals
Social work experts / early education
Cleaning
Seasonal work (agriculture, services) |

24. Labour market information - Top 15 workers/professional oversupplied
Secretaries / office work
Clothing industry
Graphic designers
Advertising specialists
Editors/journalists
Printing
Electronics
! Variation between regions! |

25. Labour market information
New vacancies open mostly in small companies Summerjobs / Seasonal jobs open for application from December until end of summer Most of new vacancies start with temporary work contract Recruitment companies / staffing services have great role in Finnish labour market – a path for more permanent jobs Recruitment companies also obey Finnish conditions and terms of employment – keep your mind open! |

26. Seasonal work
Seasonal jobs only provide work for part of the year. Short-term seasonal jobs are available around the year.
Students are typically employed as substitute workers during summer holidays, or as seasonal help in the commercial sector around Christmas. Major seasonal employers include tourism centres in Lapland in the winter and archipelago resorts in the summer. Berry-picking on horticultural farms is also available in the summer.
Go to the Avoimet työpaikat (Vacancies) service, give summer job as the search term, enter 3–12 months as the job duration and set geographical limits for your search. |

27. Regional Employment and Business Services

28. Regional TE services Uusimaa ELY Centre and TE Office
Southwest Finland ELY Centre and TE Office
Satakunta ELY Centre and TE Office
Häme ELY Centre and TE Office
Pirkanmaa ELY Centre and TE Office
Southeast Finland ELY Centre and TE Office
South Savo ELY Centre and TE Office
North Savo ELY Centre and TE Office
North Karelia ELY Centre and TE Office
Central Finland ELY Centre and TE Office
South Ostrobothnia ELY Centre and TE Office
Ostrobothnia ELY Centre and TE Office
Northern Ostrobothnia ELY Centre and TE Office
Kainuu ELY Centre and TE Office
Lapland ELY Centre and TE Office |

29. Kiitos! Thank you!