Our assignment
We are Sweden’s largest employment service. Our job is to match those who are looking for employees with those who are looking for work as efficiently as possible.
We contribute to increased employment
Fundamentally, our assignment is about contributing to a well-functioning labour market. An important task for us is also proving those who find it difficult to enter the labour market with the right tools. In this way, we contribute to preventing exclusion and to increased employment.
Our assignment also includes checking that employers who receive individual recruitment incentives comply with the regulations. We also ensure that those who are registered as unemployed comply with the regulations so that they can receive the right support from the unemployment insurance fund and the Swedish Social Insurance Agency, among others.
We help jobseekers and employers to find each other
We are available to our customers wherever they are - online, by phone, chat and video meetings, as well as at our offices all over the country. All our services are free of charge.
What we offer employers (in Swedish)
We work on behalf of parliament and government
The Government gives us assignments, both ongoing and via appropriation directions. Appropriation directions are the decisions issued by the Government each year in order to regulate the activities of a government agency.
Here are some examples of activities the Government has decided that we are to carry out.
Arbetsförmedlingen – a new government agency in 2022
Under the January agreement between the Swedish Social Democratic Party, the Centre Party, the Liberal Party and the Green Party, Arbetsförmedlingen will be fundamentally reformed. The national government is to retain responsibility for labour market policy via Arbetsförmedlingen but a new system is to be developed in which independent actors match and equip jobseekers for the available jobs.
We are preparing to become a new government agency (in Swedish)
Digital first
The majority of our services can now be managed digitally. The purpose of digitalisation is to make it easier for our customers to get in contact with us, manage and gain more control over their cases.
We are labour market experts
We provide society with analyses, information and forecasts about the development of the labour market, jobseekers, professions and labour market policy programmes. This supports a functioning labour market.