To get the best help for your situation, first answer the questions on the Preliminary questions page.
Start the recruitment process. The TE Office can help you find a suitable person.
To get the best help for your situation, first answer the questions on the Preliminary questions page.
When writing a job advertisement, pay attention to its content. The content of the job advertisement plays a key role in the success of your recruitment.
When you know what kind of employee you need, it's time to think about how to find them.
If you are interested in training yourself an employee through an apprenticeship, please contact your local apprenticeship officeOpens in a new window. before publishing the job advertisement.
Notify the TE Office of the vacancy. The notification is visible on Job Market Finland. The TE Office may also search for a suitable employee for you in its customer register.
Also consider:
If you want to publish your job advertisement in a newspaper or magazine, select it by target group. Consider a trade journal if you want to target your advertisement to a specific professional group. On the other hand, if you are targeting people in a specific area, select a newspaper or local newspaper.
A pay subsidy is a financial subsidy that the TE Office or a local government pilot project can grant to your company for the salary costs of an unemployed jobseeker. Pay subsidies can also be granted to municipalities, joint municipal authorities, wellbeing services counties, communities and other employers.
Start the recruitment process. The TE Office can help you find a suitable person.
Once an employee meeting the criteria for pay subsidy has been found, apply for pay subsidy electronically before the start of the employment relationship through the TE Services' E-Services.
Submit the application well before the work begins, but no earlier than one month before the work begins. The work may not begin before the pay subsidy is granted.
The TE Office or local government pilot will check the information related to taxation and will verify that the conditions for granting the subsidy are met, and will request additional information if necessary.
You can also submit a supplement to the application or submit an application to amend an existing decision on your own initiative.
The TE Office or local government pilot will make a decision on the pay subsidy. The decision will be visible in the e-services, and the employer will also receive a notification by email. After a positive decision, the employment can begin.
Apply for payment of the subsidy in E-services monthly for pay periods ending during the calendar month.
Submit an application for payment within three months of the end of the subsidy period.
The payment application is processed by the KEHA Centre, and a notification of each payment of the pay subsidy is visible in the TE Services' E-Services.
In some cases, it is possible to apply for a continuation of the subsidy. Employees hired with the subsidy can check their possibilities for further subsidy from the TE Office or the municipality participating in the local government pilot project.
When applying for a continuation, start the application process again. Submit a new pay subsidy application before the end of the current subsidy period.
Recruitment Training may be an option if you cannot find skilled employees or there are no experts about to graduate in the field in the near future.
When notifying the TE Office of a job, also have the vacancy published in the EU and EEA. Your job advertisement will then be transferred to the EURES portalOpens in a new window., which is a common European meeting place for employers and applicants. The CV bank in the EURES portal also enables you to search for European employees on your own initiative.
EURES advisers can help you in the different stages of European-wide recruitment.
If you want to search for an employee from outside Europe, you can get help from, for example, International Recruitment Advisory Services for Employers at Work In Finland or the regional services for Talent Boost organisationsOpens in a new window..
You can search for an employee with partial work ability in the same way as any employee.
If necessary, contact the TE Office or your municipality's employment services for help. You can also use the Työkanava serviceOpens in a new window. to employ a partially disabled person either as a temporary agency worker or as a subcontractor.
If a person with partial work ability is returning to the labour market or just starting their career, they can first be admitted to a work try-out organised by the TE Office. A work try-out employee is not in an employment relationship, so they are not paid a salary for the duration of the work try-out. Please note that you may not use a work try-out to meet the need for labour in your company. However, if you wish, you can hire the person in work try-out in your company after their work try-out ends.
Contact the TE Office if you are interested in taking a person in work try-out for your company.
To get a temporary agency worker:
In general, temporary agencies take care of the entire recruitment process on behalf of your company. They either rent their own employees or find an employee that meets your company's needs.
You can find contact details for personnel rental companies on the list of member companies of Employment Industry Finland (in Finnish)Opens in a new window., for example.
When you want to have a trainee in your company, you can:
You can search for a trainee from abroad through organisations that organise international traineeships.
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