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Employment services for integration customers

By registering yourself as a jobseeker, you become a customer of the Helsinki employment services and you can start job seeking.

When you register as a jobseeker, you start your job search and customer relationship with the Helsinki employment services.As a jobseeker, you can apply for unemployment benefit from Kela or your unemployment fund.

The employment authority advises and guides you in applying for work and offers other services that help you integrate and get work. Such services may include integration training and multilingual social orientation, where you can find information about Finnish society.

The initial interview or the assessment of the competence and integration service needs examines your study and work history, language skills and other matters affecting your integration and employment. In addition, your language, reading and writing skills may be tested.

An integration plan supports your integration in Finland. It agrees on Finnish or Swedish language studies that correspond to your study skills and on participation in services that promote employment that best suit your situation.

Contact Helsinki Employment Services

You can contact Helsinki Employment Services through e-services, by phone and by email.

Use the online service

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Call us

Call Helsinki Employment Services

Open Mon-Fri 09-15
Call charge: standard telephone charges apply

Send us mail

Contact us by post

PO Box 310, 00099 City of Helsinki

Service points

Helsinki Employment Services, Itäkeskus

Address: Asiakkaankatu 3A, 00930 Helsinki

Helsinki Employment Services, Kamppi office

Address: Malminkatu 34, 00100 Helsinki