International Tampere Skills Centre OSKE

• OMA coaches provide personal service to customers in job seeking and education.

• Integration processes are part of the service: evaluation of service needs and initial assessment, decision making processes (e.g pay subsidy) and redirection to relevant employment and educational services.

• Business Coordinators help customers by seeking employment opportunities and by mapping the needs of enterprises in the labor market.

• Business Coordinators network with local enterprises in order to find employment opportunities for the customers.

• Business Coordinators help local enterprises during the process of employing immigrant customers.

• Career Boost -services are available for highly educated or quickly advancing customers.

Career Boost -service - Internationaltampere.fi

• Competence mapping is a two-week (around 10 hours) service that includes education and career guidance, evaluation of skill level in Finnish language and help in recognizing one’s own professional know-how. The customer is provided with a continuation plan.

• Competence mapping provided by a special education teacher is also available.

• The competence mapping service is especially suitable for customers who have already attended the integration training for migrants, or for customers who have already lived in Finland for a while and need to improve their skillset in order to get employed.

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Career and study counselling services provide you with support and advice if you are planning to start studying or planning on your future career. You can get information about different branches, educational possibilities and how to fund your studies. 

You can meet the career and study counsellor in person at OSKE or via Teams. Ask more about career and study counselling from your OMA coach!

For further information please contact [email protected] 

Career coaching

• Career coaching focuses on strengthening the customers skills in job seeking and use of digital tools, developing readiness for the job market and making a personal career plan.

• Career coaching is targeted for adults who are headed to the job market directly or via education after integration. One can apply for career coaching via professional coach.

• Job search manager provides support for job search, including help with CV and job applications, recognizing and marketing competence and job search related digital tools.

• Job search manager gives personal assistance without time reservations. The service is open for the customers of International Tampere Skills Center on Mondays from 9am to 11am and from 12am to 3pm and form Tuesday to Friday from 9am to 3.30pm.

Competence mapping is an interview, where we find out about your study- and work history, your language skills and other things factoring your integration and employment. If needed, additional steps like testing language skills or reading and writing abilities can be taken if necessary. The goal of competence mapping is to evaluate, which services will be most suitable for advancing your integration and employment. During competence mapping an integration plan is made, where all the agreed services and actions will be listed. 

Integration plan can be made if needed and less than three years have passed since your first residence permit. 

The goal of integration training is to help you achieve adequate skills language-, society-, culture- and self-management -wise. This will help you to manage in everyday life (like shopping or running errands at different bureaus) or to move in to work life, professional education and to wholly part-take in the society. 

The purpose of integration plan is to support you in meeting your goals and your integration. Usually a plan is made for Finnish (or Swedish) studies considering your readiness for studying and for services, that support your employment the most. A plan can also be made for studying reading and writing in your own language or for studies of the Finnish society. 

During your integration period you an also study independently. You can apply for suitable studies yourself or Tampere Employment and Growth Services can offer you a place for independent studies. These can be basic studies, language studies or professional studies. Usually the organizer of the studies selects the students from applicants. 

It is important to report your studies to your OMA coach before starting the studies, so you can receive unemployment benefits during your studies. 

A training trial allows you to get to know the educational institution and the content of the training. The training trial mostly takes place at the Tampere Vocational College Tredu. In some cases, also at the Tampere Adult Education Centre, TAKK, and the Municipal Education and Training Consortium, Sasky.

During the training trial you will be guided through the vocational training in a specific field, the employment opportunities and post-graduate study opportunities.

Training trials are helpful if you have difficulties in choosing a professional field, and you would like to clarify your training plan before applying for a training course. During the trial you will gain insight into the requirements of the training and occupation in question. At the same time, you will find out whether the sector suits you. 

Tampere Employment and Growth Services can compensate travelling and accomodation expenses relating to job search. If you are unemployed, Tampere Employment and Growth Services can compensate expenses coming from travelling to job interviews in Finland or in the EU-/ETA-area. The job applied for has to last at least two weeks and the working hours must be at least 18 hours per week. 

The goal of vocational labour market training is to improve the job seeker’s professional skills, his/her opportunities to find work or to maintain a job, and to improve their ability to be self-employed.  Vocational labour market training that promotes professional capacities also aims to satisfy the needs of enterprises and other employers for a skilled workforce, as well as to support them in situations of restructuring and other changes.  Training is also provided to meet the needs of the labour market.

The aim of the vocational labour market training is to offer training that promotes professional preparedness and employment.  It can take the form of basic vocational or professional qualifications, diploma components, further or continuing vocational qualification modules, further or continuing education, entrepreneurship training and integration training.

The work try-out scheme enables you to familiarize yourself with the world of work, different jobs and professions, as well as identify your own suitability for different jobs.  The aim of work try-out is to clarify your career plans.  It can also support your return to the labour market after a long absence.  You can take part in a job try-out, if

• you lack vocational education or training
• a change of sector is necessary either for health reasons or due to structural changes in the labour market
• you have been out of the labour market for a long time, either because of prolonged unemployment or e.g. due to family leave
• you are considering entrepreneurship and would like to explore your interest and suitability to become an entrepreneur

The duration of a work try-out varies, but may not exceed six months.   There are between one and five workdays per week and the daily working hours are between 4 to 8 hours.  The times will be agreed together with the City of Tampere Employment and Growth Services, the participant in the work try-out and the organiser of the trial.

City of Tampere Employment and Growth Services' Job search guidance services help registered job seekers to find and apply for work and services suitable for their skills. In addition, the phone service of the TE-services also provides support in job search.

Your OMA-coach will contact you, and you can discuss with him/her personally. You can also contact your OMA-coach yourself, if you are in need of service and need help for your job search. Your services will be chosen based on your needs and what helps you the most to become employed. 

Palkkatuki on taloudellinen tuki, jota Tampereen kaupungin työllisyys- ja kasvupalvelut voi myöntää työnantajalle työttömän työnhakijan palkkauskustannuksiin.

Palkkatuetun tuen tarkoituksena on edistää työnhakijan työllistymistä avoimille työmarkkinoille silloin, kun hänellä on puutteita ammatillisessa osaamisessa tai työskentelyyn vaikuttava vamma tai sairaus. Vaikka palkkatuki myönnetään ja maksetaan työnantajalle, tuen myöntäminen lähtee aina työttömän työnhakijan palvelutarpeesta.

Lue lisää palvelusta suomi.fi -sivustolta. 

Wage subsidy is a benefit for employers granted by City of Tampere Employment and Growth Services for the salary expenses of hiring an unemployed job seeker. 

The goal of wage subsidy is to support the employment of a job seeker, who has shortages in his/her professional skillset or disabilities hindering her/his work. Even though the benefit is granted and paid for the employer, granting of the benefit is always based on the job seeker's service need. 

A wage subsidy is financial support that the City of Tampere may grant to an employer to cover the wage costs of an unemployed jobseeker and as compensation for the time spent on supervision of work.  The person to be employed must be a resident of Tampere and a client of the Pirkanmaa municipal pilot programme for employment.

• For you the wage subsidy is an opportunity to also get work for which your professional skills are not quite sufficient, or if you have a disability or illness that affects your work.
• Work supported by the wage subsidy is always either a normal job or training as an apprentice.  The employment can be open-ended or fixed-term, and either full- or part-time.
• You will be paid according to the applicable collective agreement or, if no applicable collective agreement exists, the prevailing and reasonable wage for the job in question.
• Your employer may receive pay subsidies for up to 30%, 40%, or 50% of your pay costs.

As a client of the City of Tampere Employment and Growth Services, you may be eligible for unemployment benefit for full-time independent study.  Independent study means education and training that is provided by an educational institution that manages the selection of students.   The City of Tampere Employment and Growth Services do not procure the training nor select the students for the education and training. Unemployment benefit is paid to you from an unemployment fund or by the Social Insurance Institution (Kela) for the period of study to be supported, based on the statement given by the City of Tampere Employment and Growth Services.

If you are planning to study on your own, the City of Tampere Employment and Growth Services will assess your training needs, as well as the impact of your intended studies to improve your employment opportunities. Your studies will be supported by unemployment benefit only if it is assessed that you have a justified need for education or training, that the studies will significantly improve your chances in the job market, and that they are the best way to promote your employment. Furthermore, the criteria regarding studies must be fulfilled.

Discretionary cost compensation can be granted, if unemployed customer is not entitled to cost compensation by the payer of the unemployment benefit or based on some other law. Cost compensation can also be payed when attending the following services:

• labour market training
• job-seeking and career counselling
• study- and work-try out

Cost compensation is only paid from the days one is attending the service and for max. five days per week. Cost compensation is not paid from holidays or days absent. 

This service is only meant for those unemployed job seekers mentioned in the law, whose right for unemployment benefit is ending due to maximum time when they turn 57 years old. Te-services or City of Tampere Growth and Employment services will ask persons meeting this criteria if they are willing to use their right for obligatory employment.