Tools for employment – Employment services for employers

Employer event Tools for Employment – Employment services for employers 21.5.2025 at 12 – 14, Innocum I1 2nd floor

The employer event Tools for employment – Employment services for employers will be held in Siilinjärvi on 21.5.2025 at 12-14 pm, on the 2nd floor of Innocum I1 building at Harjamäenraitti 7.You do not need to register for the event in advance, but if you would like to arrange a one-to-one discussion with an expert, please leave a message via the contact request. Welcome to join us!

Are you worried about finding talent, are you overloaded with applications, can’t find talent in Finland, or do they lack the skills to meet your business needs?

Come and talk to the experts in the employment area. We’ll tell you how we can support you in changing situations, finding talent, training or even preparing a job advertisement.

1. StudioNavigator presentation for employers – As an employer, you can get closer to interested job seekers and present your company in a completely new way in a live broadcast. For more information, visit https://www.studionavigaattori.fi/
2. Candidate search – A free service for employers, we find the right people for your company.
3. Organising a work experience placement at the workplace – As an employer, you can offer a person who is considering career options the opportunity to try out a job in a real working environment.
4. EURES/international recruitment – International recruitment helps you reach jobseekers from Finland, Europe and around the world.
5. Change cover – Support for you as an employer in the event of a change of company
6. RekryTraining – training experts to meet your business needs.

Check out the employer services in the Kuopio employment area (tyonavigaattori.fi)

At the event, you will also hear about current news from the employment, immigration and vitality services of Siilinjärvi municipality. The Innocum business village will present its activities and services and IPS work coaches will tell about their own activities, here more about IPS work coaching https://pshyvinvointialue.fi/sijoitajavalmenna

• Siilinjärvi employment services offer advice and support on various employment-related issues and help in finding a suitable employee.

Kuopio employment area

Comprehensive recruitment services, jobs and agents, support for changing situations from job security.

As an employer, you can get employment services from TyöNavigaator. We find solutions to companies’ various labour and change needs, offer free recruitment services and organise various recruitment events in the Kuopio employment area. Our aim is to help job and employer find each other.

For the employer – TyöNavigator

More information about employment services Employers – Siilinjärvi municipality website

Support for hiring staff

Recruitment services for employers

Recruitment services can help you find and recruit an employee. As an employer, you can get advice and help from the employment services to fill a vacancy, as well as information about jobseekers in the sector and the labour market situation. Employers may be eligible for financial support if the person they are recruiting is unemployed or if their disability or illness requires other support. Recruitment services for employers include publishing job vacancies, providing information on job vacancies, searching for and presenting job candidates and organising recruitment events. Free recruitment services are available to companies, other organisations and individuals acting as employers.

Wage subsidies

A wage subsidy is a subsidy to promote the employment of an unemployed jobseeker, which the employment authority can grant to an employer to cover wage costs. The purpose of paid employment is to promote the unemployed jobseeker’s integration into the open labour market and to improve his/her professional skills. The wage subsidy also promotes access to employment and participation in working life for people with reduced capacity for work and for long-term unemployed persons aged 60 and over. It is granted and paid to the employer, but is always based on the service needs of the unemployed jobseeker.

Wage subsidies may be granted for

• for an indefinite full-time contract
• for a fixed-term, full-time contract
• for apprenticeships
• part-time employment, if the grantor considers the aid to be appropriate and the aid contributes to the jobseeker’s chances of finding employment.

The labour market authority will assess whether the support is the most appropriate means of promoting the unemployed jobseeker’s employment and will decide on the duration and amount of each period of support. Information about the wage subsidy is recorded in the jobseeker’s employment plan or wage subsidy card.

The length of the pay period depends, for example, on the duration of the unemployment of the person being hired and the impact of the reduced capacity to work on job performance. In most cases, the aid is granted for five or ten months, depending on the duration of the unemployment period preceding the wage subsidy. The maximum duration of the benefit is the duration of the employment relationship. Aid may be granted for a maximum of 24 months at a time for the recruitment of a long-term unemployed person aged 60 or over.

As an employer, you undertake to pay the subsidised worker at least the salary provided for in the collective agreement applicable to the employment relationship, or the normal and reasonable salary if there is no applicable collective agreement. No wage subsidy will be granted if the wage of the person receiving the subsidy is determined solely by the performance of the work.

The amount of the wage subsidy is usually 50% of the wage costs of the person hired with the subsidy. The amount of aid for hiring a disabled person is 70% of the wage costs. For an association, foundation or registered religious community, the aid may be up to 100% of the wage costs. The aid is paid at a rate of between EUR 1260 and EUR 2020 per month, depending on the basis on which the aid is granted. The wage costs covered by the aid are the withholdable wages paid to the worker for the time worked or the work carried out.

Work trial

A work trial involves doing work that is common in the workplace and considering career and occupational options, or trying to return to work if you have been away from work for a long time for one reason or another. A work trial is not an employment relationship. It usually lasts between 1 and 6 months, working 4 to 8 hours a day. Participants are not paid, but they are entitled to a benefit (usually unemployment benefit) for the duration of the work trial, which they would otherwise receive depending on their situation. In many cases, the benefit is increased for the duration of the work trial when the trial has been agreed in a personal plan. The work experience placement may be offered by an entrepreneur, an association or other organisation. You can announce the placement on the Job Navigator and/or even on your company’s website, social media channels, to municipal employment/business people, in the office/shop window, by telling a friend. You are welcome to inform Mervi Seppänen about work experience vacancies in the Siilinjärvi area, mervi.seppanen(at)siilinjarvi.fi. The main thing would be to offer the opportunity to the work trialist, if you can offer a trial place and guide and support the trialist. Would you be able to offer a work experience opportunity to a trainee?

Information and services for employers on international recruitment

International recruitment brings numerous benefits. In a nutshell, it creates growth, which translates into turnover, new customers and an expansion of skills, for example. Build your company’s capacity to go international. Services and support are available. For employers – Work in Finland

All employer services are at your disposal! Please contact either Työnavigaattori directly or Mervi, the employment coordinator of Siilinjärvi municipality.

If you wish, you can submit a request to contact business services here.

Contact

WorkNavigator Siilinjärvi

Kuiluntie 3, 71800 Siilinjärvi (Kela House)

P.O. Box 8, 70101 Kuopio

Mon-Fri 9-12

Personal customers: 044 718 1807

Employer customers: 044 718 7500