Place
Itsehallintotie 3, 02600 Espoo
Asiakasnäkymä
Espoon kaupunki
Updated 25.05.2026
Career Path Coaching (Espoo-Kauniainen)
The service combines group-based career coaching (10 days) and an individual follow-up path seamlessly linked to it. The service duration covers the group coaching, the month during which the group coaching ends and the following two calendar months.
This service is intended for you if you are a jobseeker client of the Espoo-Kauniainen employment area. The service is intended primarily for unemployed jobseekers, but you may also participate in the service in other circumstances (such as if you have been temporarily laid off, work part-time or are a student or entrepreneur) at your assigned specialist’s discretion, provided that you are able to commit to intensive group coaching. Minor health challenges or other challenges affecting employment are not a barrier to your participation in the service if your work ability is sufficient for part-time work or a work try-out. In order to participate in the service, you must have a sufficient level of language proficiency without the help of an interpreter as well as sufficient digital skills.
Who is the service for?
Municipality of residence
Espoo
Kauniainen
Age
All people of working age
Situation
Active jobseeker
In need of additional training
Looking to change careers
Challenges with work and functional capacity
Entrepreneur or interested in becoming one
Immigrant (integration period over)
Person with higher education
Lacking upper secondary education
You can sign up for the service at any time according to the schedule for the groups. If you are interested in participating in the coaching, please submit a contact request to your assigned specialist via Job Market Finland’s E-services or fill in this form. The information will be forwarded to your assigned specialistexternal link, opens in a new tab, who will contact you and handle the actual registration.
Below are the planned groups for spring 2026. The groups will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis, so the group that you would like to join may already be full. Your assigned specialist can provide you with more detailed information on the available spots.
- Career Path Coaching, 27 April – 11 May 2026 (+ follow-up path until 31 July 2026)
Below are the planned groups for autumn 2026.
- Career Path Coaching, 24 August – 4 September 2026 (follow-up path until 30. November 2026)
- Career Path Coaching, 16 November – 27 November 2026 (follow-up path until 31 December 2026, only one month)
Benefits of participating in the service
Career Path Coaching can help you identify your strengths and find new avenues – perhaps even an entirely new career. Your coach will provide you with personal guidance, and your peer group will serve as your coaching partners. The service can help you find employment or start training or a work try-out, or you can gain the skills necessary to participate in the aforementioned solutions. During the service, you will update your job-seeking skills and make a realistic and practical plan on how to proceed.
Conditions for participating in the service
Participation in the service requires sufficient language proficiency so that you are able to participate in conversations with both the coach and your peers (e.g. proficiency level B1.2). Participants must also have sufficient digital skills.
How can I participate in the service?
Career Path Coaching is a coaching service provided by the Espoo-Kauniainen employment area for its jobseeker clients, combining group-based career coaching (10 days) and an individual follow-up path. During the follow-up path, you may receive the service for 2–12 hours.
The group-based career coaching is provided over 15 consecutive weekdays and generally with a hybrid model: the first and last days are always in the form of in-person work, and there may be up to three remote work days during the week. The service duration covers the group coaching, the month during which the group coaching ends, and the following two calendar months.
The goal is to put a stop to unemployment, find a job, or start training or a work try-out as soon as possible or gain the skills necessary to participate in the aforementioned solutions. Additionally, you will have a realistic and practical plan on how to proceed at the end of the coaching.
The overall duration of the Career Path Coaching service is 2–3 months, and it includes: group-based career coaching (8–14 people) lasting for 10 days, during which the group will discuss topics such as the following:
• drawing up and updating job search documents
• finding hidden jobs and establishing contacts with employers
• preparing for a job interview
• introduction to various job search channels and Espoo’s online employment services
• applying for a job and/or a work try-out
• making use of social media in the job search
• self-employment and entrepreneurship
• identifying and marketing your own skills
• working life skills and expectations in relation to the labour market situation
• unemployment and self-esteem, and utilising peer support
• increasing knowledge about industries and professions according to the needs of the target group and/or participants in order to facilitate their employment
• methods for identifying your own skills
• determining career and study options as well as learning skills
• a potential work or training introduction period according to individual needs, lasting up to three days
• looking into seeking recognition for training completed abroad and potentially making use of it in job seeking.
And a roughly two-month-long individual follow-up path:
• The service provider agrees on the content of the follow-up path with you at the end of the group-based career coaching. During the follow-up path, you are offered 2–12 hours of individual guidance. Additionally, the service provider may offer you group-based coaching if they wish.
• Duration of the follow-up path: the month during which the group coaching ends and the following two (2) calendar months. During the service, you can complete 1–2 competence certifications if they support your employment situation.
• During the service, you also have the opportunity to complete the following licences and competence passports: occupational safety card, hot work licence, alcohol passport, hygiene passport and age limit passport.
How is the service organised?
Service accessibility
Possibility to borrow the equipment needed
Where and when?
Toimipaikan lisätiedot
The group-based coaching takes place in the premises of the Western Uusimaa Education and Training Consortium Luksia in Espoo, at the address Itsehallintotie 3, 02600 Espoo (Perkkaa area in the Leppävaara district). Some of the days comprise in-person coaching (days 1 and 15 and some of the days during the group portion) while the others comprise remote work. The meetings included in the follow-up path can be held either via a remote connection or in person in a location agreed on together.
Ajankohdan lisätiedot
During the group-based coaching, the service is provided daily, roughly from 9.00 to 15.00.
Time
The time of the service is agreed upon separately.
Links and attachments
Service category
Job search skills
Career planning and choice of profession
Certificate training courses
Coaching and entrepreneurship training