Place
Itsehallintotie 3, 02600 Espoo
Asiakasnäkymä
Espoon kaupunki
Updated 24.11.2025
Job Path Coaching (Espoo-Kauniainen)
The service combines group-based job search coaching (5-10 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 months.
Who is the service for?
This service is intended for you if you are a jobseeker client of the Espoo-Kauniainen employment area. You do not have to be unemployed in order to participate in the coaching. You may have health difficulties or other factors hindering your employment. 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. At your assigned specialist’s discretion, 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), provided that you are able to commit to intensive group coaching.
Municipality of residence
Espoo
Kauniainen
Age
All people of working age
Situation
Active jobseeker
In need of additional training
Entrepreneur or interested in becoming one
Immigrant (integration period over)
Person with higher education
Lacking upper secondary education
How can I participate in the service?
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 to pass the information on to your assigned specialist. The specialist will contact you and handle the actual registration. Below are the planned groups for autumn 2025. 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.
- Job Path Coaching, English, 20 October – 24 October 2025 (+ follow-up path until 31 December 2025)
- Job Path Coaching, highly educated people, 10 November – 14 November 2025 (+ follow-up path until 31 January 2026)
- Job Path Coaching, Finnish, suitable for all, 24 November – 28 November 2025 (+ follow-up path until 31 January 2026)
- Job Path Coaching, English, 1 December – 5 December 2025 (+ follow-up path until 28 February 2026)
- Job Path Coaching, Finnish, suitable for all, 8 December – 12 December 2025 (+ follow-up path until 31 January 2026)
Benefits of participating in the service
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 is the service organised?
Job Path Coaching is a coaching service provided by the Espoo-Kauniainen employment area for its jobseeker clients, combining group-based job search coaching (five days) and an individual follow-up path.
The group-based job search coaching is provided over five 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 number of in-person and remote work days may vary). 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 Job Path Coaching service is 2–3 months, and it includes: group-based job search coaching (8–14 people) lasting for five 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.
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 job search coaching. During the follow-up path, you are offered 2–12 hours of individual guidance.
- 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.
Service accessibility
Possibility to borrow the equipment needed
Where and when?
More information on the location
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 (usually at least days 1 and 5) 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 Luksia’s premises.
More information on the time
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
Development of working life skills
Certificate training courses