Developing your vocational skills
Support for finding a job
- Services that promote employment and expense allowance
- Get a pay subsidy card and find a job
- Work try-out as a stepping stone to the job market
- Integration services for immigrants
- Initial assessment and integration plan
- As a jobseeker registered with the TE Office
- Unemployment and social benefits during integration
- Finnish and Swedish courses
- Developing your vocational skills
- Life in Finland guide in various languages
- Information for new immigrants
- Rehabilitative work activities: the municipality supports your employment
- Finding work or education with the support of a job coach
- How disability or illness can affect employment
- Cross-sectoral joint service promoting employment
- A work ability coordinator as your support
- Working life radar
Developing your vocational skills
TE Offices also provide services that will help you develop your vocational skills, get into a new occupation and familiarise yourself with the Finnish working life.
- A work try-out will take place at a workplace. A try-out will help you find out if the occupation in question would suit you. You can start a work try-out once you have arranged it with the employer and the TE Office.
- In vocational labour market training, you can take a qualification needed for an occupation, or complement your existing education and training. The teaching language will be Finnish.
- In employment on a pay subsidy, you will be working at a workplace, and the TE Office will subsidise your employer's salary costs. For more information about work on a pay subsidy, contact your TE Office.
Help and advice in starting a business is also available. New entrepreneurs meeting certain criteria may be eligible for a start-up grant. If you are planning to start a business, inform the TE Office about this in advance.
Integration services for immigrants in the local government pilots on employment
If you have been referred to a local government pilot on employment and are interested in a work try-out, labour market training, pay subsidy or starting a business, contact your municipality of residence. The services will be agreed upon with an expert at the municipality of residence before they start.