Everything about Finland for foreigners

It is not easy for a foreigner to find a job in Finland especially if you are looking for a permanent full time job. The best possibilities are for temporary workers in hotels, restaurants and stores. Unfortunately the recent COVID-19 crisis has hit these industries hard and unemployment levels have risen substantially. However there are always some open positions in the labor market. I noticed that Duunitori, one of the leading recruitment sites in Finland, has recently opened their new service that focuses only on English job openings. If you visit www.jobsfinand.fi you will find all listed open vacancies where job listing is available in English.

If you are working in a Finnish company and your employment is based on the Finnish legislation you will have four weeks summer holiday and one week winter holiday after few years of working. You will have the full summer holiday after one year of working and year after that you will have also the winter holiday. In addition to this there are some national holidays in Finland. For example the Independece day 6.12 and the spring festival at the first of May.

If you are looking for a job in Finland the right place depends on what kind of educational background you have. In most of the open postions at least some level of Finnish language is required but there are some areas where it is not required. Most of them are in engineering or business/finance. Monster  is a leading recruiting media in Finland. The second most significant is Oikotie . These recruiting medias have wide range of open positions in all areas. If you are looking for jobs where higher education is not required best possibilities to find work are at recruiting agencies like Addecco. Here are some companies that have strong market positions in Finland: Addecco , Poolia,   Barona , Manpower , Varamiespalvelu and Staffpoint .