Come Here! 2024

Recruitment event 24th of July in Campus Allegro, Jakobstad/Pietarsaari

Thank You all exhibitors and visitors who made this years recruitment event a big success! Please check out this video on what was going on at Campus Allegro in July. Enjoy!

Time to come home.

People living in the Jakobstad Region have more free time than others. This is due to the short distances. Picking up the children from kindergarten takes just a few minutes and even if you live in the city centre, the sea and nature are always close by. After work, there’s a whole “smörgåsbord” of leisure activities to choose from. We call it quality of life.

There’s also a lot of choice when it comes to accommodation, and you get more for your money. You can choose to live comfortably in an apartment in the centre of town, in a house in the countryside or in a newly built semi-detached house in one of our five municipalities.

More and more people are choosing to move away from the metropolitan regions. Why not make life easier and move to the Jakobstad region? There are good connections, jobs in international markets and time for leisure and everyday life.

Maybe it’s time to come home?

What: Come here! -recruitment fair
When: was held at Wed 24 July 2024 at 13-17
Where: Campus Allegro, Köpmansgatan 10, Jakobstad

Below you will find a listing of all companies, municipalities and organizations that attended the recruitment event. This is a unique opportunity for you to learn more about future work possibilities that the Jakobstad Region can offer you!

More about what the Jakobstad Region has to offer:

Work Here – information about employers in the region

Living opportunities in the Jakobstad Region

We have moved here!

Open vacancies on the Job Market today

Jakobstad Region from A to Z (Regional map)

Here You will find more information

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Exhibitors

Fresh Servant

Founded in 1995, Fresh Servant is a growing and developing food company. We are the market leader in consumer-packaged salads.

Rantalainen

Accounting firm offering financial and payroll management services.

Centria

Centria university of applied sciences with 4400 students and 340 employees has a strong focus on RDI that supports the development of businesses and organisations in the region. Our campuses are in Pietarsaari, Kokkola and Ylivieska.

Kronoby

Workplaces, peace and quiet, pleasant people, beautiful scenery, safe living environments and good service. This is Kronoby.

Optima

Optima offers vocational training and answers for special-needs vocational education in the entire Swedish-speaking Finland. Its subsidiary OptimaPlus Ab cooperates with companies and organisations, offering further education, courses, certificate training and tailor-made training adapted to company needs in Swedish, Finnish and English.

Oy Herrfors Ab

A hard working, environment-loving, bilingual electricity company with deep local roots. Small in size but with enough energy for at least half of Finland.

Nautor

Since 1966, Nautor’s Swan is proud of the unmatched quality in the production of the most loved sail boats in the world, a fully integrated in-house building process, from the design to the finest details and final testing before the handover of each yacht to its owners.

Nykarleby

The City of Nykarleby employs around 390 people working in a wide range of sectors. The city has a broad business community, ranging from high-tech export companies to agriculture and fur farming.

Casa Delivery

Casa Delivery carries out home deliveries and installations of household appliances and furniture. We operate in various locations in Finland and Sweden. Our head office is located in Jakobstad. We have 140 employees working towards our common goal - emission-free deliveries.

Dobra Finland

Dobra Finland is a company that through our services wants to simplify and facilitate everyday life for entrepreneurs. We offer staffing services and accounting services to companies that want to save time so they have the opportunity to focus on their core business.

Nooga

Nooga is a modern digital accounting firm that works to help clients succeed in their businesses. We have offices in six different locations, and our team consists of approximately 60 people.

RIKTA Ab Oy

RIKTA manufactures custom cable solutions. Established in 1969, Rikta is one of Finland’s oldest companies in its sector.

Yrkesakademin i Österbotten

The aim of the Vocational College of Ostrobothnia is to increase professional skills and competitiveness in the region through vocational training adapted to the business sector and flexible skills development. YA offers over 50 different basic, vocational and specialized vocational degrees. The centers in Pietarsaari, Pedersöre, Närpes and Vaasa have a total of about 200 employees and 2800 students.

Nordic Lights

NORDIC LIGHTS® produces premium, high-tech work and driving lights for heavy-duty vehicles in the mining, construction, forestry, material handling and agricultural industries.

Edunova

Edunova provides extensive continuing education and support for skills development at college and university level. Our services cover social and health care, technology, business, culture and the bioeconomy. We also offer international recruitment and a wide range of training services.

Pedersöre

The municipality of Pedersöre regularly recruits new employees, especially in early childhood education and care, catering and cleaning services, and farmers’ holidays and stand-in services.

PPLE - The People Company

The People Company, or PPLE for short, is a service company in Ostrobothnia with a focus on personnel services and skills placement. We handle both local and international recruitment processes and we can also act as an employer when companies want to hire staff for shorter or longer periods.

Walki

Walki produces wrapping materials for the paper industry, barrier lining, covering material for biomass and selected technical products.

UPM

We create a future beyond fossils. As a frontrunner in forest industry, we provide renewable solutions for various end uses. In Jakobstad we produce pulp, sawn timber and low-emission energy.

Beamex

A better way to calibrate. Beamex provide products and services for companies to streamline and digitalize their calibration processes.

Fluid-Bag

Fluid-Bag manufactures flexible industrial bulk packaging solutions for liquids and semi-solids.

The Wellbeing Services County of Ostrobothnia

The Wellbeing Services County of Ostrobothnia offers social, healthcare, fire and rescue services. We are dedicated to keeping our community safe and promoting the overall wellbeing of our residents.

Solving

Welcome to Solving – an innovative company that gives you great opportunities for your own development. We manufacture unique handling solutions for a global market to customers such as AGCO Power, Airbus and Wärtsilä.

The town of Jakobstad

Jakobstad is a vital centre in a prosperous region, a bilingual town by the Sea of Bothnia, which offers its inhabitants participation, security and quality of life, and which creates economic conditions for good services and pleasant living in a stimulating urban environment.

Visit Jakobstad

Visit Jakobstad Ab is a company founded by the city of Jakobstad in 2023. The company's purpose is to develop, promote, and increase awareness of the city and region as a tourist destination. Jakobstad is located on the west coast, and the city's seaside location and long history attract visitors from both Finland and abroad.

Larsmo

The municipality of Larsmo is a dedicated employer that offers an inclusive and inspiring work environment. We value our employees' well-being and promote sustainability in our operations.

Alfen Elkamo

Alfen Elkamo was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Jakobstad (Pietarsaari), Finland. Alfen Elkamo develops, manufactures and markets electricity distribution systems, including transformer substations, medium- and low-voltage switchboards and related systems.

Sjöblom Infra Oy

Sjöblom is a service company in the infrastructure and industrial sector that offers first-class comprehensive solutions. A wide range of services, modern machinery, and a professional team of more than 80 people, as well as a responsible corporate value base make Sjöblom a reliable partner.

OSTP

OSTP Finland Oy Ab is one of the leading manufacturers of welded pipes and fittings in stainless steel. The high quality products are used in many different industrial sectors and our main markets are in the Nordics and Europe.

Snellman

Snellman Meat Processing, a family business based in Pietarsaari, has provided Finns with genuine taste sensations for over 70 years.

Ab B. Portin Oy

B. Portin offers complete solutions in metal, from idea to finished product. The focus is on flexibility and customised solutions for small and large projects. The aim is to deliver high quality and to be a reliable subcontractor.

JNT

JNT is the local telecom company that provides personalised service. We offer services in everything that telecommunications stands for today: data, telephony, television and IT solutions. Our customers are private individuals, companies, cities and municipalities throughout Ostrobothnia.

Botnia Työterveys ry

In our amazing working community, you can be yourself. Goals, developments, possibility to influence your own work, but also completely ordinary tasks. Best of all, we cooperate with local businesses to strengthen the region's vitality.

Fastighets Ab Ebba

Ebba is a property company owned by the town of Jakobstad with approximately 620 rental apartments in different parts of the city. Ebba is the natural choice when you are looking for rental housing in Jakobstad.

Mirka

Mirka manufactures coated, non-woven and specialty abrasives to the automotive, industrial, wood and metal markets.

Herrmans Bike Components

Herrmans Bike Components Ltd is one of the leading European pioneers when it comes to developing solutions for the bicycle industry.

AIP - Alholmen Industrial Park

AIP is an industrial park in the town of Pietarsaari in Ostrobothnia. The park is home to 10 industrial and 53 service companies. Almost 80% of the output in the area is exported.

Billerud

Billerud in Jakobstad produces world-leading kraft and sack paper intended for users with very high demands on strength, durability, flexibility, purity and printability.

Novia University of Applied Sciences

Novia's area of activity is located along the Finnish coast and the University of Applied Sciences operates in Vaasa, Turku, Raasepori, and Jakobstad. With 5000 students, and a workforce consisting of about 350 people, Novia is the largest Swedish-speaking UAS in Finland. Novia UAS has a close working relationship with the business community and an active alumni network.

Baltic Yachts

Baltic Yachts is the world’s leading builder of advanced composite yachts. Our highly skilled workforce uses leading edge marine technology and traditional craftsmanship to create award-winning yachts. Each yacht is unique, unmatched in its quality, unmatched in its performance.

Hötorgscentret

Hötorgcentret is located in the center of Jakobstad/Pietarsaari We offer comfortable senior housing with services adapted to the needs of our tenants. Under our roof you will find a gym, day activities, group homes, senior housing, flea markets and businesses. In our popular lunch restaurant, which is open to everyone, we serve delicious home cooking with dessert every day of the week. We prepare the food from scratch, using primarily domestic, locally produced ingredients, and our staff are phenomenal at baking good bread and buns.