An enterprise or other employer can train its current or new employees in cooperation with the employment and economic development administration. Those eligible for participation in such joint purchase training include prospective entrepreneurs or entrepreneurs participating in training together with their employees, as well as leased employees.

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.

These forms of training can be combined with each other - for instance, so-called exchange coaching is based on the simultaneous implementation of RecruitmentTraining and PreciseTraining.

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.

However, staff training for which the employer is responsible, e.g. induction for a certain position, or the general brushing up of professional skills, is ineligible for financing as joint purchase training.

More details on RecruitmentTraining, PreciseTraining and ChangeTraining are available using the menu on the left.

The form Employer’s proposal for joint purchase training is available through the link to the right. The proposal should be submitted to the Employment and Economic Development Office or TE Centre in the area in which the jobs are or will be located.