Work try-out

If you wish to use a work try-out to determine your interest and suitability for a particular job or occupation, contact your personal counsellor or the psychologist at the City of Tampere Employment and Growth Services who will give you guidance. You can also send a contact request to an expert via the E service for personal customers. You may procure a work try-out placement yourself. You can also obtain tips on jobs in the E services for personal customers.

The work try-out will be agreed with you in the employment plan or replacement plan. Unemployed job seekers may receive unemployment benefit at a higher rate for the duration of the work try-out. The increased unemployment benefit can be paid for a maximum of 200 days.

Replacement plans include an activation plan, integration plan, and a cross-sectoral employment plan.

The work try-out is implemented with tasks that are new to you. However, if you have been out of the labour force for a long period of time, it may be possible to organise a work try-out in an occupation or tasks you have previously carried out. The question then is about supporting your return to work through a work try-out. A work try-out cannot, however, be organised for recent graduates to gain work experience in their own field.

The work try-out scheme may be organised by a company, a private entrepreneur, a municipality, a federation of municipalities, another organisation, a foundation, a government agency or an institution. A private person cannot act as organiser of a work try-out measure.

The service is free of charge.