How to begin your job search

To register as a job seeker, log in to Job Market Finland. Then go to the ‘E-services’ section and select ‘Register as a job seeker’.

Please note that if you are a citizen of a country other than an EU or EEA country or Switzerland, you cannot begin your job search in the E-services at Job Market Finland. Instead, you must contact the employment officials in your area.

Image 1: Instructions for registering as a job seeker

Personal data

Add or check and correct your personal data if necessary.

Image 2: Personal data. Note! The information shown in the image is not real personal data.

Situation

Select the reason for starting your job search that best matches your situation, and indicate whether you are seeking full-time work and unemployment benefits. Follow-up questions will be based on your previous selections.

If you are reporting a change in your job search situation within the next month, please indicate whether you wish to keep your job search active after the change.

Image 3: Status

Work experience and education

Add your work experience, activities as an entrepreneur, and education information from at least the last two years. Also tell about your other skills.

Image 4: Work experience and education

Competence and job preferences

Fill in your skills and job-related preferences. Select the most appropriate keywords from the suggested keywords, as they will be used to suggest jobs for you.

Image 5: Competence and job preferences

Service needs assessment

Answer the questions about your service needs. Follow-up questions depend on what you have selected in the previous steps.

Image 6: Service needs assessment

Consent to the disclosure of data

If you wish, you can give permission to disclose your information to employers for recruitment. The permission only applies to information that is essential for the job.

Image 7: Consent to the disclosure of data

Submitting the information

If necessary, edit the information before submitting the registration. When you are submitting the registration, you will be asked to confirm. If everything is correct, click ‘Lähetä (Submit)’. To return to editing the data in the form, click ‘Peruuta (Cancel)’.

Image 8: Submitting the registration. Note! The information shown in the image is not real personal data.

Once you have submitted the registration, you will receive a confirmation of your registration as a job seeker. To close the confirmation notification, click ‘Sulje (Close)’.

Image 9: Confirmation notification

Job applicant profile

Under the Act on the Organisation of Employment Services (380/2023), which will enter into force on 1 September 2026, job seekers must prepare and publish a job applicant profile on Job Market Finland. In these instructions, a job seeker refers to a person who is a customer of employment services, regardless of their employment status.

A job seeker must prepare and publish a job applicant profile on the service platform within 15 working days of start of their job search.

• Publishing a profile is mandatory
• You will be notified of the need to publish a job applicant profile when you register
• If a job seeker does not create a profile themselves, the employment authority must create one on their behalf
• Every job seeker will also be assigned a task in the E-services for preparing and publishing a profile

If you have already been a job seeker prior to 1 September 2026, the obligation to publish your job applicant profile (or any possible exemption to this) will be set in connection with the preparation of your next plan or during your next job search discussion.

Once you have logged in, you can easily switch between Job Market Finland’s E-services and the My job path section. If you are a job applicant customer, you are obliged to prepare and publish a job applicant profile.

Image 10: As a job applicant customer, you can find the task related to the Job Applicant Profile on the front page of the E-services.