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, employers, private employment agencies and employment officials can contact you. If you are an unemployed job seeker, you are obliged to create and publish a job applicant profile. Job Market Finland is the official job-matching platform of Finland, operated by the public administration.
Five reasons to create and publish a job applicant profile today
Employers can contact you directly
When you publish your job applicant profile, employers, private employment agencies and employment officials looking for employees for their open jobs at Job Market Finland can contact you. In this way, you may also find employment in a position that is not in the public search.
You can apply for jobs unnamed
Your job applicant profile is unnamed, unless you add links to your social media accounts, for example.
You will receive job recommendations that are just right for you
The more information you fill in your job applicant profile, the more suitable suggestions you will receive from open positions.
You can also apply for jobs internationally in the EURES portal
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.
AI helps you describe your competence
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.
Follow the instructions on how to make a job applicant profile
A job seeker whose job search began on or after 1 September 2026 must prepare and publish a job applicant profile in Job Market Finland within 15 working days of starting their job search. If your job search started before 1 September 2026, the obligation to create a Job Applicant Profile, the obligation or possible exemption related to your job applicant profile will be set during your next job search discussion or when your plan is prepared.
A job applicant profile in Job Market Finland helps you find jobs that are just right for you.
You will receive automated job suggestions based on the information you include in your profile.
The more details you provide about your competence and experience, the better suggestions you will receive.
You can easily update your profile later.
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 signing in, go to the My Job Path section and select Job Applicant Profile.
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 include in your job applicant profile can be accessed by the employment authority if you are a job seeker.
In the 'Introduction' section, you can add a title to your job applicant profile, write a short introduction about yourself, and describe your job preferences and skills.
In the 'Other knowledge and skills' section, you can indicate the area in which you are seeking a job and list your professional qualifications. You can also provide information about your driving licences and the languages you speak.
In the ‘Work experience and education’ section, you can give details on your work experience and education. The information is automatically listed in chronological order.
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.
The employment authority may already have information concerning you gathered as you used the services previously. You can add this information to your job applicant profile if you have not yet created a profile or if you want to delete the information in it.
To add information to an empty profile:
Open the job applicant profile and select your profile for editing.
Locate a proposal with your existing information. The system may provide you with information that the employment authority already has about you, including about your education, work experience and competence.
Select the information to be added. Acknowledge the information you wish to include in your profile. You can edit the information before saving it to match your current situation.
Save the changes
Useful information
As all information is not added automatically, you decide which information you want to use.
You should check the information carefully and supplement it yourself if necessary.
An up-to-date and comprehensive profile improves your chances of being contacted by employers.
When you publish your job applicant profile, the employer can contact you through the profile. Such contacts will be automatically forwarded to you as Suomi.fi messages.
To receive these messages, make sure that:
you have activated Suomi.fi Messages, and
you have published your job applicant profile.
In their message, the employer usually provides instructions for what you should do next. For example, you should contact the employer or apply for a job.
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’. You will receive contact requests from employers as Suomi.fi messages, 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. You will get better matches if your profile clearly describes a single main occupation in which you are seeking for a job and the competences that support it, rather than just a broad list. 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.
Would you like to extend the publication duration of your job applicant profile?
Is your job applicant profile becoming outdated, and would you like to republish it? You can now renew it for six months by clicking "Continue publishing for 6 months".
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 identification
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
Finnish online banking codes,
Mobile ID,
certification card,
means of identification of other countries authorised for cross-border identification in Europe.
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.
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
create a job applicant profile,
receive job suggestions based on the profile data, and
share the job applicant profile in the EURES service.
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.
