Summer job
The City of Varkaus offers summer jobs to around 70 young people every year. Summer jobs are available for students under 25 years of age*, for students who have passed their final exams in spring '25 and for young people who have completed the 9th grade of comprehensive school.
* Those aged 25 or under in 2025 , including the summer entrepreneurship programme
We offer summer jobs in areas such as:
- Event Worker (Vekara-Varkaus & Adventure Island)
- Customer Service Representative/Museums
- Youth Services/Youth House
- Day care centres, early childhood education summer workers
- Sports services, sports facilities management, customer service tasks, Ilopisara swimming pool
- Library, organisational assistant tasks
- Electrical trainee
- Kangaslampi service point/library/gymnasium, assistant duties
Summer jobs for young people leaving grade 9 of primary school are for two weeks. Summer jobs for students under 25 years of age and graduates last four weeks. The deadline for applications is 9 March 2025 at 23.59.
Watch the video to see what kind of job opportunities we have on offer, for example.
Links to the 2025 summer job search:
Note! The deadline to apply for summer jobs in the city is 9.3.2025.
Summer jobs for students under 25 years of age and graduates for spring 2025.
Summer jobs for young people aged 2025 to 2025 for young people leaving grade 9
Summer Entrepreneurship Support
The City of Varkaus Summer Entrepreneurship Grant application period starts in January 2025 and ends on 31.3.2025.
The City of Varkaus Summer Entrepreneurship Grant is intended for Varkaus students under 25 years of age to start a new business in the summer of 2025. To be eligible for the grant, the business idea of the person(s) must be economically justified. The grant can be applied for by a start-up company established after 1.9.2024, provided that the business is intended to continue in the summer of 2025. The amount of the summer entrepreneurship grant is EUR 500 per person per summer. The aid will be paid in two instalments.
An interview will be organised with representatives of the New Enterprise Centre Wäläky, the Savo Vocational College and the City of Varkaus. After the interview, applicants will be informed of their eligibility for the summer entrepreneurship grant. In order to be eligible for the summer enterprise grant, the applicant must have established a start-up company. In addition, the applicant must participate in the guidance provided by the Savon Vocational College's NYT Year as an Entrepreneur programme.
The recipient of the summer enterprise grant must be enrolled at a secondary or higher education institution during the period of operation of the summer enterprise. A young person who has completed the 9th grade of comprehensive school can also apply for support if he or she has applied to study at a vocational college in Savo in the spring joint selection procedure. The summer enterprise can be used to gain credits that can be used in later studies. Under the NOW - A Year as an Entrepreneur programme, you can continue your business after the summer (depending on the institution) also in the autumn.
Apply for the Summer Entrepreneurship Programme
Summer work vouchers for 9th graders
The City of Varkaus will give summer job vouchers worth a nominal value of €200 to all 9th graders in Varkaus in February.
In 2025, a total of almost 200 young people leaving primary school in the same year will receive a summer work voucher. The vouchers will enable young people to find summer work for at least two weeks (10 working days) in local businesses and communities on their own initiative. The minimum wage for a two-week summer job must be €450 and the working time must be 30 hours per week. The summer work voucher is paid afterwards against a statement (link below) to the young person's employer, who can be from the municipalities of Varkaus, Leppävirra, Joroinen, Heinävesi or Pieksämäki.
The support under the summer job voucher is valid from 26 May to 17 August 2025. More information can be found in the printed summer work voucher.
Ninth grade summer work voucher 2025 statement of accounts
Summer job aid for employers
The application period for the 2025 summer job subsidy is 8.1. - 1.6.2025. Applications will be processed on a first-come, first-served basis, ensuring that there are sufficient funds. Statements of account (using the form below) for the summer job subsidy must be submitted by 15.10.2025 at the latest.
CRITERIA FOR SUMMER JOB AID FOR ENTERPRISES AND ASSOCIATIONS IN 2025
Application form for summer job aid 2025
Summer job aid statement of accounts 2025