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Are you dreaming of a new step in your career? Do you want to discover a hidden job? Are you looking to find your next job opportunity in Finland? When you create and publish a job applicant profile at Job Market Finland, you give employers looking for employees the opportunity to contact you. Job Market Finland is the official job-matching platform of Finland, operated by the public administration.
When you publish your job applicant profile, employers at Job Market Finland who are looking for employees for their open jobs can contact you. In this way, you may also find employment in a position that is not in the public search.
Your job applicant profile is anonymous, unless you add links to your social media accounts, for example.
The more information you fill in your job applicant profile, the more suitable suggestions you will receive from open positions.
Are you dreaming about an international career? You can easily add your job applicant profile to the EURES portal and receive suggestions for suitable jobs outside of Finland as well.
The functions at Job Market Finland that are based on artificial intelligence help you describe your skills. Based on the information you fill in, AI suggests suitable keywords that make it easier to describe your competence.
Do you find it difficult to find jobs with traditional job searches that offer tens of thousands of jobs? Job Market Finland's job applicant profile gives you suggestions for jobs that are right for you. The more details of your competence and work experience you provide, the better suggestions you will be given.
Is your job applicant profile becoming outdated, and would you like to republish it? You can now renew it for six months by clicking "Extend by six months".
To fill in a job applicant profile, log in to Job Market Finland. Logging in to Job Market Finland requires strong identification. You can do this with your online banking ID, a mobile certificate, or an identity card with a chip.
After logging in, go to the ‘Job applicant profile’ tab.
Your job applicant profile consists of three sections: ‘Knowledge and skills’, ‘Introduction’, and ‘Work experience and education’. If you complete all sections as comprehensively as possible, you will receive job suggestions that are suitable for you. The information you add to the job applicant profile is not visible to employment officials.
The information you enter in your job applicant profile will be automatically saved. After entering just a few bits of information, you will see recommended jobs on the ‘Job recommendations’ tab. The more information you add to your profile, the more suitable your job suggestions will be.
When you publish a job applicant profile, you can present your skills and competence to employers who are looking for employees at Job Market Finland. Employers can browse published job applicant profiles in the employee search, and when an employer publishes a job posting, Job Market Finland provides proposals on suitable job seekers. If you want to allow employers using Job Market Finland to see your profile and contact you, click on ‘Review and publish’. The employers' contact requests are sent by email, so please remember to check whether you have received messages. When you publish a profile, you also need to set a publication period for it. This can be for up to six months. Remember to republish your profile if necessary.
The classified FINESCO occupation and competence glossary used in job postings is largely based on the European occupation and competence glossary. Occupations and competences in the Finnish labour market have been added to the glossary and are continually being added.
Even if you cannot find the professional title or competence you need, choose the most suitable occupations and competences.
Based on the information you have added to your profile, you will receive suggestions for jobs that are right for you on the ‘Job recommendations’ tab. The underlying technical solution and matching process is under constant development. You can read more about labour matching on the ‘How the matching works’ page.
Filling in a job applicant profile is worth the trouble. Once completed, it is easy to update your profile whenever you acquire new competence or experience or complete your studies.
As a rule, you can identify yourself at Job Market Finland through national Suomi.fi E-identification. For users who do not have the possibility of strong identification, an alternative email login is available.
At Job Market Finland, users can browse information content and jobs without logging into the service. However, when a user wants to create a job applicant profile or publish a job posting, they must identify themselves at Job Market Finland. As a rule, identification takes place using the Suomi.fi e-identification service. If the user is a citizen of an EU country other than Finland, they can use eIDAS identification as their primary identification method, which can also be accessed through Suomi.fi online identification.
If the user does not have access to Suomi.fi E-identification, the user can log in to the service using email login. With email login, the user can create a job applicant profile and apply for suitable jobs, but they cannot use the services provided by the authorities or employers or report household jobs.
Suomi.fi E-identification is a national, strong identification service that enables clients to log in to Finnish public administration electronic services. The identification is used in all services where the user's identity must be verified. After identification, the use of electronic services is secure.
As a rule, identification at Job Market Finland takes place through the Suomi.fi service. You can log in to Job Market Finland with Finnish online banking codes, Mobile ID, or a certification card. In addition, foreigner's identification methods are used.
In other words, you can identify yourself in Job Market Finland with
The Suomi.fi service offers a wide range of ways for identification. However, there are especially international experts who cannot identify themselves using Finnish or foreign identification methods. For them, Job Market Finland offers the alternative email login.
For those Job Market Finland users who do not have the possibility of strong identification, alternative email login is available. The email login is based on a one-time access code that is sent via email. The user's privacy is guaranteed, as the email login does not collect or pass on any additional information about the user.
At Job Market Finland, email login is only intended for those who do not have the possibility of strong identification.
A user identified through email login can
As electronic communication with authorities in Finland requires strong identification, it is not available for email login users. It is also not possible to copy the job applicant profile to authority procedures for those who have logged in using their email address. The creation of a job posting for household employers has also been excluded from users identified through email login. If a user uses the email login to create a job applicant profile and later wants to switch to Suomi.fi E-identification, the existing information will not be transferred and must be recreated.