Employment services for immigrants
The aim of immigrant employment services is to determine which services best promote your integration and employment.
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.
The initial interview or the assessment of the competence and integration service needs examines your study and work history, language skills and other matters affecting your integration and employment. In addition, your language, reading and writing skills may be tested.
An integration plan supports your integration in Finland. It agrees on Finnish or Swedish language studies that correspond to your study skills and on participation in services that promote employment that best suit your situation.
Act like this
If you have a Finnish personal identity code and can identify yourself electronically, start your job search in the e-service.
If you do not have a Finnish personal identity code or cannot start a job search in the e-service, contact the employment services in your region.
To whom and under what conditions
In order to register as a jobseeker, you must have the right to work in Finland. The right to work is based on a valid residence permit or the citizenship of an EU or EEA country or Switzerland.
The employment authority in your region will assess what kind of services you need to support integration and employment.