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Tampere City Region Labour Force Service Centre (LAFOS)

Tampere City Region Labour Force Service Centre works with those for whom finding employment has proven difficult. The Labour Service Centre is ment for unemployed people in need of multi-professional and multiple services.

The Labour Force Service Centres in Tampere, Nokia, Pirkkala, Ylöjärvi, Kangasala and Lempäälä are service points, which function co-operatively with the Employment and Economic Development Office, the municipalities, and the Social Insurance Institution of Finland (Kela).

Contacts and information

Tamperen City Region Labour Force Service Centre Actions

Actions are based on the client´s own objectives
The Labour Force Service Centre operations are based on co-operation between Employment and Economy Administration and the city's social services and health care. Here you will find, under the same roof, services provided by various authorities to assist you in finding employment, as well as information on services available from other sources. Co-operation aims at providing clients with adequate support in order to carry out further plans.

The Labour Force Service Centre aims to find a suitable solution to the client's situation: finding employment, educating or rehabilitating oneself. Services are tailored specifically to the needs of each client. Any further plans are based on the client's own goals and objectives.

The Labour Force Service Centre may obtain, as an outsourcing service for their clients, training, coaching, guidance, assessment of functional and working ability, and personal support services. Services are available for groups, as well as for individuals.

Most important actions in Labour Force Service Centre
- Keep the job-seekers active and in good ability to work, so that firms can employ them
- Strengthen the job-seekers education and work experience to better meet the employers expectations
- Test working skills in practice
- Seek required working opportunities
- Build pathways for the job-seekers to open vacancies
- Seek solutions also for those who doesn’t reach to open labour markets