Articles of apprenticeship

Opsopankki – Become a professional with an apprenticeship contract

With a study contract, a secondary vocational degree can be completed in full, a part of the degree or even a sub-degree that is smaller than a part of the degree. 

Students with an apprenticeship contract train for a profession while working at the same time: they get paid and accumulate work experience. With a learning contract, you can study your first profession, change your profession, finish the studies you missed, or acquire additional training. 

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The city of Äänekoski cooperates in apprenticeship matters North Central Finland Vocational College with. Apprenticeship training in the Northern Central Finland region is organized by POKE's Työelämäpalvelut, which is located in Poke Piilolanniemi.

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To the employer

With an apprenticeship contract, you get a specialist trained specifically for your needs.

The employer must offer work for at least 25 hours/week. The tasks must meet the professional requirements of the degree's foundations. In addition, there are usually 1-4 days of study per month at the educational institution.

The student is supervised by a workplace supervisor. Short training is available for workplace guidance and evaluation of displays.

Only salary costs will be paid to the employer. Various subsidies are available for employment. The employer receives a training allowance of €50-150/month. When employed, an unemployed job seeker has the opportunity to receive a wage subsidy of at least 30% of wage costs. The city of Äänekoski offers employers the so-called Äänekoski supplement: an additional €600/month for the first 6 months, then €300/month for a maximum of 12 months can be granted for apprenticeships.

Report this apprenticeship position:

Apprenticeship notification form

The personal coach will contact the employer who announced the vacancy within a week.

Job seeker

With the apprenticeship contract, you get skills that you can immediately put into practice in a real work environment.

Most or even all of the studies take place at the workplace. Studying at the educational institution is usually 1-4 days/month. The apprentice student is employed and is paid a salary according to TES.

The apprenticeship is free for the student. If the salary is not paid for days at the educational institution, the student is paid 15€/day and a family allowance of 17€/day if the student has a dependent child under 18

Everyone is paid a travel allowance when the one-way journey to the teaching place is more than 10 kilometers, as well as an accommodation allowance of €8/night if the student spends the night outside their hometown due to studies.

Municipal employer

The appropriations of the employment unit of the city of Äänekoski enable the simultaneous employment of 80 people with wage support in the city's units. 

A fixed-term employment contract of a maximum of 8 months is concluded with the job seeker. Depending on the unit's resources, it is possible to enter into an apprenticeship contract for the duration of the salary support period for 1-2 parts of the degree. During the wage support employment relationship, it is not possible to complete an entire degree and the unit is not obliged to employ the apprentice student at the end of the period.

Apprenticeship is a fixed-term employment relationship, where the working hours must be at least 25h/week and the salary must be in accordance with the TES, the amount and duration of the wage subsidy is individual to the job seeker. In wage support work, the working time is at least 31 hours/week

The student is supervised by a workplace supervisor. Short training is available for workplace guidance and evaluation of displays.

For more information:

Personal trainer
Irina Kraft
040 185 3977
irina.kraft@aanekoski.fi

Personal trainer
Pirkko Heinänen 
040 187 6075
pirkko.heinanen@aanekoski.fi

Opsopankki is an ESR-funded project managed by Äänekoski (September 1.9.2020, 31.8.2023-August XNUMX, XNUMX). In the project, apprenticeship paths leading to complete degrees are built, where in the initial stages of the degree one works in a city unit or in the service of intermediate labor market operators and the degree is completed in the open labor market. The project's primary target group are job seekers from Äänekoski who have a skills gap or other need for training, as well as employers operating in the Äänekoski working area who are interested in offering the opportunity to complete a partial degree with an apprenticeship contract.