We work with a steady stream of the Finland's best growth companies and high-performing individuals. We're aiming to be global but feel proud of our Finnish roots. We are real, but ambitious. We believe in feeling proud, but staying humble. At Laavu, everyone is accepted as they are.
Are you a psychologist? Great! Read below why you should join our team as a Performance Psychologist.
As a Performance Psychologist, you walk alongside the client as their personal coach. The key is to ensure your client's growth and psychological performance in the midst of their demanding work. In practise, your work consists of face-to-face coaching sessions and communication with the clients between the sessions.
We are known for our excellent client experience and strong customer relationships. Thus, your role as a coach goes beyond the traditional 1:1 sessions and includes strong relationship building with the coachee – and their organisation.
Occasionally, you may carry out group-based coaching and training. If you are interested in an employment relationship at Laavu, your job description is likely to be even broader. Depending on your interest, it can include, for example: content creation, conceptualisation of our service or development work.
More important to us than your years of work experience is that you have a genuine interest in our business and share our values. Here is a list of a few things that would make you the perfect addition to our team. But as no one is perfect, we don’t expect you to tick all the boxes.
You are a certified psychologist (PsM)
Your work approach is solution-oriented, and you might have a coaching certification
Third-wave cognitive behavioural therapies (e.g. ACT) are familiar to you
You have experience in work and organizational psychology
You’re interested in working with fast-growing organizations and the business world gets you excited
You are rich in ideas and have a genuine interest in developing yourself, your clients and Laavu as an organization
You are willing to go the extra mile to make your client happy
You are brave and not afraid to step into your discomfort zone
Submit your application via the survey below. In the survey, you will tell a little about yourself and your values, why you are interested in the job and what would make you a good performance psychologist. After that, the recruitment proceeds as follows. At each stage, we will notify the applicant separately of access to the next stage.
Phone interview that lasts approx. 20 minutes
Competence interview at Laavu's office
You may take part in optional practice coaching to prepare yourself for the real deal. You get to coach one of our psychologists (45 mins) and receive feedback from them (10 mins).
In demo coaching you hold a real coaching session for one of Laavu's team members while the other monitors your performance.
Usually, psychologists have 25-30 clients who have coaching sessions every other week. This means 3 client sessions daily, on average. However, there might be days without any coaching sessions and some days with more than 3 sessions.
It’s up to how you schedule your coaching sessions. Usually, psychologists start between 08.00 and 10.00 and finish between 16.00 and 18.00. However, we’re chill when it comes to working hours – no one monitors when you arrive or leave the office.
Coaching sessions are primarily in person at our Hakaniemi office so on those days you are expected to work at the office. However, if you don’t have any client meetings or you only have remote coaching sessions, you can work remotely.
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Work at Laavu differs quite a lot. Here’s a brief list:
- We focus on psychological performance and prevention of mental health problems instead of easing or eliminating mental health issues.
- Client relationships are, on average, around 6-9 months long.
- We don’t keep any records of our client meetings.
- Performance psychologists stay in touch with clients outside of coaching sessions.
- Psychologists at Laavu spend 50% doing client work, and 50% with other projects and tasks (except for freelancers).
The purpose of Laavu’s coaching is to improve psychological wellbeing and performance. The challenges may be work-related, such as leadership challenges or time management issues, or more personal, like self-criticism and demandingness. Some clients may not have a clear problem, in which case the topics are often more related to personal growth. And some clients just want to sit down and reflect on their day-to-day life and their thoughts on a regular basis.
It depends on your skills and motivation, but it can be anything regarding the operations of Laavu: sales, product and service development, client surveys, content creation, recruitment – you name it!
You are not expected to do sales, but you are welcome to do so. Also, as a freelancer, you may book your own intro sessions – we reward it with higher compensation.
It’s a big plus if you do! If you do not have any, please be clear in explaining why you are interested in work and organizational psychology and specifically in working at Laavu.
It’s beneficial, but we don’t expect previous experience in coaching.
Our official language is English, so all the material and written communication is in English. However, most of the coaching sessions are in Finnish and usually casual discussion happens in Finnish (if there are only Finnish speaking people around).
Our official language is English, so all the material and written communication is in English. However, most of the coaching sessions are in Finnish and usually casual discussion happens in Finnish (if there are only Finnish speaking people around).
We’re glad to hear you’re interested in being a freelancer at Laavu! Being a freelancer at Laavu differs from being a freelancer psychologist anywhere else. At Laavu, freelancers are part of the team just like any other employee. Ideally, freelancers work at least 2-3 days per week so full-time work is hard to combine with this. We hope to see freelancers take part in weekly steering meetings (työnohjaus) and other team gatherings like Friday Buns.
Compensation is 230 € (+ VAT 24%) / month / client (working time per client approx. 2 hours / month). You get paid by the number of clients, not by the number of hours. As first intro sessions are free of charge for clients, you do not get paid for them. However, we compensate it by rewarding you with a 1000€ bonus after going through onboarding (approximately 2 full days) and having 10 clients. Also, for each new client you book yourself, you get paid 450€ for the first month instead of 230€.
It’s good to note that we’re very client oriented. Already before the first session, our coaches send a video to the client and welcome them. Our coaches stay in touch with clients outside of coaching sessions, by e.g., reminding them of their homework or sharing relevant and useful material with them. According to our coaches, all this should take on average less than 15 minutes per client per month.