An enterprise or other employer can train its current or new employees in cooperation with the employment and economic development administration.

The training arranged is based on joint planning, purchasing and financing by the employer and the employment and economic development administration. Employers play a key role in selecting the students.

Joint purchase training is a family of three service products targeted at meeting different needs, but complementing each other:

• RecruitmentTraining – if no skilled employees are available to meet the employer’s needs, and no experts newly qualified through other types of training are in prospect.
• PreciseTraining – basic or further vocational training tailored to meet the needs of the enterprise and staff. Also suitable for implementation during periods of fixed-term lay-off.
• ChangeTraining – the employer can help employees, dismissed due to financial or production-related reasons, to find a new profession or job, or support employees laid off until further notice.

Participants receive either pay for the training period, or, on certain preconditions, training allowance and maintenance support for labour force training.

The employment and economic development administration can participate in financing joint purchase training, if this will help secure availability of workforce, promote the employer’s operating conditions, and contribute towards prolonging working lives, maintaining jobs and preventing unemployment.

Further information on RecruitmentTraining, PreciseTraining and ChangeTraining are available via the link to the right