Developing skills

Employment services strongly support lifelong skills development. This means various solutions and opportunities as well as strong regional cooperation with educational institutions. The focus on skills development in the Agile employment program is also reflected in Janakkala in the form of career guidance and training.

In adult services, recognition of skills is also important for re-entering the labor market. Feel free to contact employment services if you need help and tips on making your skills visible, for example, when updating job application documents.

Janakkala’s municipal employment services support:

  • studying and job searching with apprenticeship contracts and we guide towards them,
  • recognition of qualifications in both workshop environments and other activities,
  • training agreements when familiarizing with a new field

Choose a suitable pathway from below

Janakkala’s Youth Workshop Kino
(Seuranaukio 3, Tervakoski)

Designed for young people under 28 years old living in Janakkala. The workshop runs the cinema Kino Tervakoski located at the Tervakoski Community Center.

The youth workshop offers diverse work tasks at the cinema as well as familiarization with workplaces and training that promotes progress into employment and/or education. During the period, individual guidance is provided on matters related to career choices.

At the beginning of the workshop period, a workshop plan is created together with the workshop instructor, recording your personal goals. The aim is to find a pathway forward, for example, through work trials, rehabilitative work activities, or training.

Well-being area’s workshop
(Taimistotie 4, Turenki)

Offers rehabilitative work activities, training trial, and work trial placements for unemployed residents of all ages whose unemployment threatens to prolong. In workshops, various work skills can be learned under supervision, while considering future plans during work.

Labor market training is free education for those receiving unemployment benefits. The goal of professional labor market training is often to complete a basic, professional, or specialized vocational qualification or a part of a qualification. In many different fields, further or supplementary training is also provided.

Who is professional labor market training for?

Professional labor market training is primarily intended for unemployed or at-risk adults who have completed their compulsory education.

Career coaching and entrepreneurial training are organized for those considering entrepreneurship or intending to become entrepreneurs.

If you do not find suitable training in the offerings, please contact your responsible official. You can assess whether training is possible to obtain as an individual study place.

You can find available labor market trainings here. With the Training Watch service, you can subscribe to receive information about new upcoming labor market trainings via email.

Support for self-directed education is full-time study supported by unemployment benefits, which can be granted for a maximum of 24 months per study module. Studies must be agreed upon in advance with your responsible official, who will determine whether the requirements for granting support are met. Support cannot be granted, for example, if you have resigned from your job solely to start self-directed studies. The maximum period for unemployment benefits also applies during studies.

You can receive unemployment benefits during studies if you are

  • registered as a job seeker and your job search is active
  • at least 25 years old
  • assessed by the responsible official as being in need of training and studying improves your professional skills and opportunities in the labor market
  • agreed in the employment plan to support studies with unemployment benefits before starting the studies

The studies supported by self-directed education must lead to:

  • a vocational qualification, professional qualification, or specialized vocational qualification
  • a lower or higher university degree in a university or university of applied sciences
  • the completion of the above-mentioned qualification parts.

Studies can also include additional and supplementary training under the Act on Vocational Education or open university or university of applied sciences education.

Studies leading to a licentiate or doctoral degree cannot be supported with unemployment benefits.

If you want to continue earlier started studies with self-directed education support, they can only be supported with unemployment benefits if there has been at least one year since the interruption of studies. However, this restriction does not apply to studies started during a job or during a period when an employer has provided financial benefits or if the same studies have been pursued as labor market training.

More details and conditions can be found on Labor Market Portal.

An apprenticeship is a good pathway for those who can complete studies independently. An apprenticeship-based employment relationship requires skills and the ability to combine work and studies. Janakkala’s employment services annually support access to the labor market through apprenticeship-based employment for those whose unemployment has prolonged.

More information about apprenticeships:

An education voucher corresponds to cash when paying study fees at the Riihimäki Adult Education Center or Vanajavesi Institute. The voucher can be used to pay for one study group or course fee in self-directed education that is short-term and course-based. The education cannot be full-time or otherwise supported.

Only unemployed job seekers registered in Janakkala are entitled to use the education voucher. The voucher can be granted for a maximum value of 50 euros during a calendar year. The voucher can be granted for individual courses valued at less than 50 euros or as a general study card valued at 50 euros. The education voucher is discretionary, and the decision to grant it is made by the head of Janakkala’s employment and integration services.

The voucher is personal, and the identity of the recipient is verified at the educational institution where the unemployed person registers.

Forms can be picked up from the municipal office service desk Lyyli or downloaded from the links below:
Word form
PDF form

Special attention is given to employment and the return to the labor market for those over 30 by tailoring and coordinating different services. This is aimed to be supported through flexible solutions, enhancing orientation towards open labor markets through business collaboration, and supporting entrepreneurship.

Supporting the return of those over 50 to the labor market is one of the primary objectives of the municipality’s employment services. The development and recognition of job seekers’ skills are supported through career coaching and guidance. The target group is also offered many other pathways to the labor market.