Welcome as a customer!
As a customer of Äänekoski's employment services, you can get help and support for your employment.
Summer jobs for young people
The 2024 youth summer job search starts in February 2024. Information and application forms about the 2024 summer job will appear on this page during January. We also announce the 2024 summer job search on the city's social media channels.
Registering as a job seeker
If you become unemployed or are laid off, register as a job seeker as soon as possible in Työmarkkinatorit's My account.
Services for jobseekers
As a job seeker, you have many different opportunities to develop your own skills or try something completely new. If you are an unemployed job seeker, you have the opportunity to use various services or study to support your job search.
Education
Being unemployed, you have many different opportunities to develop your own skills or try something completely new.
Open higher education
Jyväskylä University of Applied Sciences (Jamk) and the Open University of the University of Jyväskylä jointly offer open higher education in Äänekoski. The city of Äänekoski supports the studies of its citizens by awarding open university scholarships. In addition, young people aged 18–29 who have moved from Äänekoski to study elsewhere are entitled to an annual study scholarship of 350 euros, if they keep Äänekoski as their home municipality.
Training sessions
As an unemployed person, you have the opportunity to participate in various training programs that promote employment.
Work trial
With the help of a work trial, you clarify your career choice and career options, and you can conveniently get your foot in the door of a workplace. In order to find out about the choice of profession and career options, you can familiarize yourself with working life with the help of a work trial.
Wage support
Salary support is a financial support that the TE office or municipal experiment can grant to an employer for the hiring costs of an unemployed job seeker.
Compulsory employment
Compulsory employment is a statutory service in which the city must, under certain conditions, offer wage-supported work or other employment-promoting services to people over 57.
ZOOM Äänekoski workshop
Media center Zoom provides services for the internal needs of the city of Äänekoski, from filming to producing content.
Multidisciplinary joint service (TYP)
TYP is a joint service network of the welfare area, Kela, the municipal experiment and the TE office, where actors work together to help jobseekers find employment or to be placed in services according to service needs in order to promote employment.
Individual and start coaching for young people
The city of Äänekoski has applied annually to the Regional Administration for youth workshop activities.
Articles of apprenticeship
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.
Rehabilitative work
Central Finland's welfare region is responsible for Äänekoski's social, health and rescue services from January 1.1.2023, XNUMX. You can find up-to-date information about services and transaction channels on the welfare area's website at hyvaks.fi.