I want to find a job

You can find information on available vacancies from various sources, including job-seeking websites, recruitment and staffing companies, temporary-work agencies, websites of potential employers, recruiting events, and social media. As a client of the City of Tampere Employment and Growth Services, you get information from our OMA coaches and enterprise coordinators about vacancies as well as support for your job-hunting.

Finding a Hidden Job

Hidden jobs are not advertised as open positions. You may approach them with an open application. An up-to-date LinkedIn profile is also helpful in attraction their interest. Stay up to date by follow the news in your field. You can also gather relevant information by following the social media channels of the enterprises that interest you. By doing this you can notice possible changes in their activities and are able to offer them your skillset as an appropriate opportunity emerges.

A hidden job may also become an actual opening when an appropriate applicant offers their skills to a company precisely at the right time. The applicant’s own activity is essential in landing a hidden job. Hence, you should invest in your job-seeking skills.

Our business coordinators can also help you in looking for a job. Alternatively, you can get in touch with one of our services that helps you to look for employment. Contact your OMA coach to learn more information about these services.

An individual path to working life

A route to working life can also be tailored. This will enable you to familiarize yourself with a job and to try it out in an actual work environment on a low threshold in a field that you are interested in. The individual paths are usually aimed at fields where new qualified people are needed. The qualifications required for the tasks at hand will be obtained or complemented as a job/collaboration that directly matches the employer’s needs. Ask your OMA coach for more information.

Have you already got familiarized with the Job Market Finland? Job Market Finland is a forum, where work and workers meet.

At Job Market Finland, you can browse vacancies and create your own job-seeking profile that will help you to receive notifications about jobs suited just for you. There you can also find information to support your job search journey.

Looking for a job can be a challenge at times. However, it is a skill that can be learnt. We provide various services that may help you to look for a job. 

Job-search training: In job-search training, you learn to assess your skills and formulate them into a job application and CV. You will also find out how companies recruit personnel and what job-seeking channels are best suited to your needs. 

Skills mapping: You may make an inventory of your competences with the ForeAmmatti tool in the web. Based on the results you obtain, you will be directed to a job or a training.

You will find training, coaching, and info meetings aimed at job-seekers in the Event Calendar of the Tamperetyönhakijoille website. For more information about an event, click its headline.

Our Kohtaamisia. broadcasts inform you about vacancies in various companies and about fields that currently look for employees. You can watch videos on our YouTube channel.

Start following the event calendar of the TE-services and the TE.live broadcasts on the website of the TE-office as well.

Create your own job – could an entrepreneurship be for you? We provide a good deal of various kinds of guidance and support for those aiming to start their own business. Our services aimed at new entrepreneurs enable you to fine-tune your idea and pay attention to everything you need to know and do. Our business coordinators are also here to help you with your first steps as an entrepreneur – get in touch and we will guide you to the information you need.

A wage subsidy is financial support that the City of Tampere Employment and Growth Services may grant to an employer to cover the wage costs of an unemployed jobseeker. You OMA coach will assess with you whether a wage subsidy is possible in your situation. Ask more from your OMA coach.

Work try-out allows you to familiarize yourself with working life. You can experience a variety of tasks and fields, which helps you in identifying your suitability for different jobs. Its aim is to clarify your career plans. It can also support your return to the labour market after a long absence. Ask more from your OMA coach.

Vocational labour market training strengthens your professional aptitudes. You may qualify for it if you are in-between jobs or at risk of becoming unemployed. It mainly consists of vocational education and training in view of vocational upper secondary, further, or complementary qualifications. Labour market training is free of charge, entitles you to the same benefits that you would receive when unemployed, and includes possible compensation for travel and maintenance costs too.

If you are a customer of the City of Tampere Employment and Growth Services, ask your OMA coach about applying for labour market training.

Ask more from your OMA coach.

Recruitment training can be organised in various fields and industries for many different jobs. Recruitment training programmes search and train employees in cooperation with companies and/or recruitment and staffing companies. You learn the skills that employers need right now. Ask your OMA coach about current recruitment training programmes and about your possibilities to participate.