Competence and salaries

We value expertise! As a JYU employee you have a range of opportunities to develop your skills and knowledge, as well as learn and develop in your work. We offer diverse career options for experts from different fields for academic careers as well as for roles in expert and support services.

At JYU, learning is an integral part of everyone’s work. We develop our skills and knowledge at work and in interaction with others. Your learning is supported by various projects and development schemes, teamworking, enrichment of work tasks, professional guidance and mentoring, staff mobility as well as various events, conferences and seminars in your own field.

You can also take advantage of our extensive range of staff training, which helps meet the competence needs identified in our strategy. In addition, you can study free-of-charge at our Open University.

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Your salary is based on collective labour agreements.

The Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥ complies with the General Collective Agreement for Universities as well as the Collective Labour Agreement for Teacher Training Schools..

Pay levels are determined by the universities’ salary system. The salary consists of two components: one based on the job demand level and the other on personal performance level.

The collective labour agreement has separate job demand levels for teaching and research staff (levels OV01–OV11) and for other staff (support and expert services) (levels MV02–MV15). The collective labour agreement for teacher training schools defines job demand levels for the teaching staff of these schools (levels CO01–CO11).

Personal performance is assessed in all of the above-mentioned staff categories, using the performance level categories defined in the collective labour agreements (categories I–IV).

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Academic career at Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥

The Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥ offers a wide variety of career options in teaching and research.

Expert and support service jobs at JYU

The Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥ offers vantage points for various experts and specialists.

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