Choice of profession and career planning

If there is an Ohjaamo One-Stop Guidance Centre in your region, you can visit it and ask for help without booking an appointment for

• studies
• gaining employment 
• housing
• welfare and well-being.

If you do not have a One-Stop Guidance Centre in your area, a similar service may also be organised by the youth services or another party in your area.

Easy-to-access joint services that promote the employment of young adults are intended for people under the age of 30.

You can explore career options online:

• The Professional Information section of the Job Market Finland provides information on an extensive range of professions.
• If you are wondering which professions will have good job prospects in the future, familiarise yourself with the Occupational Barometer.

The employment services of your municipality offer you various career guidance and career planning services.

• In vocational guidance and career planning, you can discuss your career choice or a change of career.
• In career coaching, you will get help with planning your career and improving your working life skills.
• In a work try-out, you can try a field or work that interests you.
• In a training trial, you can try out the training that interests you.

In the Nuotti coaching, you will receive your own coach with whom you can find a suitable study or work place for you. If you are interested in starting the coaching, contact Kela's national rehabilitation helpline.

You can ask the One-Stop Guidance Centre, the local employment services and your municipality's youth services if you were able to get a work trial in a youth workshop.

After the workshop period, you may know better what work you want to do or what you want to study.