Job Market Finland, the path to employer services
Job Market Finland has been presented by its developers at various fairs, union events and other similar events. However, it seems that a large part of employers and entrepreneurs are still unfamiliar with Job Market Finland and its future benefits. This is, of course, understandable – busy entrepreneurs already have their hands full.
As Job Market Finland september update approaches, now is a great time to explain what the platform will mean and offer to employers in the future, and why it is worth investing at least a while in familiarising oneself the service.
At the moment, you, as an employer, can publish your job postings via Job Market Finland search functionality. If you have already published your job advertisements at "Mol", or more formally known as the TE Service’s Job Vacancies service, your advertisements have already been transferred to Job Market Finland.
Artificial intelligence searches for the expertise required by the position
We recommend inspecting and editing your advertisements at Job Market Finland as we used artificial intelligence for complementing the advertisements with appropriate competence and skill keywords based on the advertisements’ texts during the automatic transfer process.
Our service has automatically added skill-related keywords to job advertisements for over a year, and the artificial intelligence has developed a great deal after the difficulties faced at the beginning. However, as artificial intelligence does not always read all phrases correctly, misunderstandings and non-relevant skill words may still end up in the advertisements. Thus, editing may be necessary. For example, the artificial intelligence may have misinterpreted sentences containing words that have several meanings depending on the context. Some of the artificial intelligence’s interpretation attempts have been unintendedly yet sympathetically comical, and we apologize for any development-stage mishaps.
No need to wait for a suitable applicant to find your job posting
To ensure that you do not have to simply wait and hope for a suitable applicant to find your job posting, Job Market Finland enables you to take a peek at the candidates. Actually, you can view candidates who are suitable for your published job postings right away. After the September update, you will also be able to use keywords in order to look for promising candidates. When you find a suitable candidate, you can send them an interview invitation directly via Job Market Finland.
“What if the person has already applied for a position my company is offering?” The question above has been asked from us a few times, because in Job Market Finland, the jobseekers’ profiles are anonymous, meaning that their name or contact information are not published. Of course, a jobseeker can publish a link to their LinkedIn profile if they so wish, but as a rule, Job Market Finland does not provide jobseekers’ names to employers. This enables all candidates to be presented through their expertise and experience in particular.
In addition to enabling the review of suitable employee candidates and the publication of job announcements, Job Market Finland will provide information and assistance in various work-related situations. Busy entrepreneurs would probably like to know what should be taken into account, for example, in connection with the recruitment of the first employee, and a growing employer will be delighted by finding compiled information about the options available for developing their personnel. On Job Market Finland, you can also find advice if your job postings and searches do not result in finding suitable candidates.
Private employer services will also be offered via Job Market Finland
Job Market Finland will not be similar to the website used for the TE Services. After reaching its full scale, Job Market Finland will provide work-related services from public, private and third sectors to assist both personal customers and employers. In practice, the partner network built on Job Market Finland will enable you to reliably and easily find all the options for your situation without the need for googling.
In the future, you will also find comprehensive statistical information on, for example, the demand for employees profession-by-profession and the supply of candidates with the required skills. This may help you in planning future recruitments or the development of your personnel’s skills.
Provide feedback or participate in joint development
Job Market Finland will be built piece-by-piece with the goal of creating a comprehensive entity of work-related services. We gladly accept your feedback and ideas related to Job Market Finland as a whole to ensure that the service will truly make employers’ everyday life easier. Please give us feedback via the online form or participate in the actual joint development.
Henriikka Kokkola
Development Specialist, KEHA Centre / Job Market Finland