Come Here! 2025

Recruitment event 24th of July in Campus Allegro, Jakobstad

Move here - to the best place in the world!

Local businesses are investing and in need of workforce. Both the private and the public sector are seeking people with vocational, university of applied sciences, or university degrees. Is that you?

Why the Jakobstad Region?

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.

Come and get to know us!

What: Come here! -recruitment fair
When: Thursday 24 July 2025 at 13-17
Where: Campus Allegro, Köpmansgatan 10, Jakobstad

Meet over 40 exhibitors and take the opportunity to make new connections that could lead to life-changing job opportunities. At our Career Café, you can also explore your next career step with professional career advisors or pitch your business idea to our enterprise consultants.

The event is free of charge and no registration is required. Refreshments will be served during the event. You are warmly welcome!

The Jakobstad region is ready to offer jobs and quality of life for the whole family.
Are you ready?

Come here! Come home.

The event is organized by Concordia, the regional development company of Jakobstad, in cooperation with the Jakobstad Region Employment Area and the Ostrobothnia Employment Area.

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)

Find more information here:

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Visit Jakobstad – Visit Pietarsaari (SW/FI)

Exhibitors 2025

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.

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.

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.

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.

Beamex

Beamex offers diverse career paths in technology, business, and operations. Join a global, future-oriented company where your skills contribute to innovative calibration solutions and meaningful work that makes a difference.

Amada Automation Europe Ltd.

AMADA is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of high-technology metalworking machinery. We, AAE, are AMADA’s largest European manufacturing facility for automation solutions.

Rantalainen

Accounting firm offering financial and payroll management services.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Snellman

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

DG Creative

DG Creative is a growing IT company providing secure solutions in infrastructure, cyber security and IT-support. Want to work with modern technology and support local businesses? Join our team!

Sweco Finland

Sweco is Europe's leading engineering and architecture consultancy. Together we are 22 000 architects, engineers and other experts.

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.

Integration Works

The Integration Services in Jakobstad supports quota refugees and asylum seekers who have been granted a municipal placement in the region. The Service Point for newcomers is our advisory point where immigrants receive practical help, information, and individual guidance. Through the Integration Works project, we connect available talent with the right employers.

Kronoby

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

Nordiclights Oy A Methode Electronics Company

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

Mirka

With decades of experience, Mirka Ltd is a world leader in surface finishing technology. Mirka offers a wide range of solutions for surface finishing and precision sanding. We specialise in total solutions in which the abrasives are supplemented by our innovatively designed machines and polishing compounds.

Fresh Servant

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

Herrmans Bike Components

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

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.

Sasken Finland Oy

Sasken Finland works with design and development of electronics, mechanics and software. We have high-end test labs and expertise in Kaustinen and Tampere. We serve both domestic and global customers.

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.

Walki

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

RIKTA Ab Oy

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

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, restaurant, flea markets and businesses.

UPM

UPM contributes to the sustainable transformation of society with material solutions. We create long-term value via renewable fibres, advanced materials, decarbonization solutions, and communication papers. In Jakobstad we produce pulp, sawn timber and low-emission energy.

Kredu

Language is the key to a bright future in Finland! Welcome to Kredu in picturesque Nykarleby – a vibrant hub where people from around the world come together to learn and grow. At Kredu, you don’t just study languages – you gain lifelong friendships, global experiences, and the tools for success in Finland. We are a private folk high school with years of experience in language education and a warm, international atmosphere that feels like home.

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.

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.

OP Botnia

OP Botnia is a cooperative bank owned by its customers. The bank's core region covers Kronoby, Larsmo, Pedersöre and Jakobstad. Our activities are based on our values: a people-first approach, responsibility, and succeeding together.

Novia University of Applied Sciences

Novia University of Applied Sciences operates along the Swedish-speaking coast of Finland, with campuses in Jakobstad, Vaasa, Turku, and Raseborg. We offer high-quality, work-life-oriented university education for our degree students as well as continuing education. The goal of our research, development, and innovation activities (RDI) is to develop society and working life. We collaborate with municipalities, organizations, and companies to support and strengthen our operational regions.

Prevex

With over 60 years of experience, Prevex is a leading supplier of water traps for the kitchen and bathroom industries. We develop, design and produce water traps and related products for manufacturers, distributors and retailers.