Job search tips
Need a map and coordinates for your job search? We’re here to help you, no matter what kind of leap you’re trying to make. Check out our wide range of tips!
A successful job search is based on a thorough understanding of yourself, your skills and strengths, and a goal: what do I want to do next in my career and what kind of job opportunities interest me? It also helps if you understand the rules of today’s job search, take advantage of networking opportunities and take care of your own wellbeing in the midst of a job search. Looking for a job is hard work, but with our help you can succeed!
Paths to work
There are many paths to a new job. We’ve put together some different ways for you to find an exciting new opportunity!
Useful resources for jobseekers
Did you know that not all jobs can be found on the Job Marketplace run by the employment services? To find a wider range of vacancies, we recommend that you choose a few different services that you monitor regularly. Choose from these, for example!
Find a new job easily
The Reliable Worker -service helps you to identify and articulate your skills, create a job search profile, find jobs and employers in your employment area and sector, and more. Find a job with new job search services, recruitment events and jobsearch workshops!
Free online trainings to support job search
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Topics include artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and application development. You don’t need to have a background in technology to enter the pathways that will open doors to new job opportunities:
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Apply for recruiting training programmes
A pathway to work by expanding your skills
In cooperation with employers and training organisations, the TE services organise so-called recruitment training programmes for new jobs, known as F.E.C. training and RekryKoulutus, but with similar basic principles.
The aim is to develop the jobseeker’s professional skills to meet the needs of the partner organisation.
The training programmes allow you to update your skills and find an interesting new job at the same time. Participating companies also have a good view of hidden jobs.
The duration of the training programmes varies between three and nine months. They cover a wide range of occupational fields, for which it is typically difficult to find so-called “ready-made” skills. Indeed, many training courses train participants in a new field from the ground up, with no prior knowledge required.
During the training programme, the jobseeker receives both theoretical training and on-the-job learning in a partner organisation. The idea is that after the training, the person will be employed by the partner organisation. For example, Saranen Consulting reports an employment rate of 80 % for those who have completed their training, Talentgate 70-80 % and Aalto PRO over 70 %.
For more information on F.E.C. training, see the TE services website
More information on RekryKoulutus on the website of the TE services
- a person who is unemployed or threatened with unemployment, who is keen to upgrade their skills and perhaps find employment in a completely new type of job.
- including recent graduates or people returning from, for example, family leave.
You can browse the training programmes on offer by using the TE services’ labour market training search. Enter either F.E.C or recruitment training as the search term. There are several dozen programmes available all over Finland. See the description of each training programme for detailed application instructions and criteria.
For more information on applying for training and benefits during training, contact the national TE services’ Training Advisory Service.
Sources: TE-Palvelut/ F.E.C-koulutus TE-Palvelut/Rekrykoulutus
State your strengths, take the Work Personality Assessment!
Did you know that a work personality assessment is now available for all YTK members on the YTK Unemployment Fund’s OmaYTK service? The assessment will help you to increase your self-awareness and to describe yourself and your work personality more accurately at different stages of your job search. Personality assessment is one of the new employment services offered by the YTK Unemployment Fund.
You can get the following job search services with YTK Worklife membership:
Sparring and learning from a job search coach online
As a member of YTK Worklife or student member, we offer you a free online jobsearch training, including 1 hour of one-to-one guidance from a career coach. Our professional tips will help you write your CV and job application, identify your skills or prepare for a job interview.
Job search skills to master
Pick up useful job search tips from the Online Training Library. As a combined member or student member you get a huge selection of contents free of charge, once you have registered as a user through OMA+. Take a look at these:
Tips for an effective job search
How to search for a job on LinkedIn
Find more training courses using the keyword ‘job search’!
Find thousands of training courses from job search skills to digital skills to management in our training selection!
How to access the online education library free of charge
- Register as a user via OMA+
- Fill in the registration form and confirm your registration via the email you will receive
- Here you go! The content of the eLearning library is now available to you!
The burden of job search
While the job search is often exciting and stimulating, it can also be stressful at times. The financial situation can haunt you and the future can feel uncertain. It’s natural to feel anxious, even stressed, because it’s a big change – whether you are voluntarily changing jobs or became unemployed suddenly.
Job loss can happen to any of us, and more and more of us find ourselves unemployed at some point in our careers. Careers are full of different phases, of which unemployment is one, as are parental leave, short periods of employment, sabbaticals, negotiations for change, promotions and, finally, retirement. Unemployment is nothing to be ashamed of or hide.
You’ll find tools to help ease the stress of job searching and manage the emotions caused by unemployment in the online training library for working life:
- Aava Virra’s eight-week training will help you gain self-reflection skills and ways to manage feelings of anxiety, as well as tools to calm down and relax amidst the pressures of job hunting.
- See also the course: Changes in Working Life Psychological Adaptation to Workplace Changes.
Convince your future employer with your language skills
If better language skills could open new doors in your career, check out the language courses in the award-winning WordDive app! As a combined or student member, you get extra study time for free.
Employment contract to be signed? Take note of these!
Did you find a new job? Great – congratulations! Just remember to be careful with your contract. We’ve put together a ready-made list of things to consider. If you’re worried about something in your employment conditions or contract, you can also contact the Lakikaveri service for legal assistance.
