Recruiting an employee

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.

• Enter the details of the current position as accurately as possible to help you find the most suitable employee. An accurate and clear advertisement limits the number of applicants, making it easier and faster to select an employee.
• Ensure that the job advertisement’s content, style, word choices and illustration convey a message that fits the public image of your company.

When you know what kind of employee you need, it's time to think about how to find them.

• Consider which recruitment channels best reach the experts your company needs.
• Tell your acquaintances, networks and customers that you are looking for an employee.
• Post a job advertisement on your company's website and on your social media channels.

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:

• whether you want to report a vacancy in another recruitment service, free or paid. Examples of these are the recruitment websites of educational institutions and the recruitment websites of private service providers.
• should the entire recruitment process be purchased from a private recruitment company?

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.

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:

1. first check whether your industry's collective agreement restricts the use of temporary agency workers
2. contact the temporary agency of your choice
3. tell the rental company what kind of employee you are looking for and for what kind of work you are looking an employee for.

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:

• contact the career and recruitment services of educational institutions or student organisations directly
• advertise the traineeship position through TE Services
• search for a trainee through a temporary agency
• search for a trainee through your own networks or social media.

You can search for a trainee from abroad through organisations that organise international traineeships.

More information:

• Find a specialist the university - aarresaari.netOpens in a new window.
• Internationalisation service for organisations -oph.fi (in Finnish)Opens in a new window.
• Member companies of Employment Industry Finland - henkilostoala.fi (in Finnish)Opens in a new window..