1. Change your status

Remember to change your status on our website, from student member to graduate, two weeks after your final exam at the latest.

Please note that our forms are written solely in Danish. You are more than welcome to contact us at 70 10 00 18 if you need help filling them out.

Change your status here

You must change your status no matter if you are currently employed, unemployed, continuing your education or if you go on maternity leave.

Not a member of our fund yet? Sign up for membership as a graduate student, which makes you eligible for unemployment benefits one month after your education has ended. You must sign up two weeks after you have received your final grade, at the latest.

Sign up here

Are you a member of another fund, and want to switch to the Teachers’ Unemployment Insurance Fund?

Switch here

You should not quit your membership of your current fund when you change to the Teachers’ Unemployment Insurance Fund. The only thing you need to do is sign up with us, then we take care of the rest. Your rights are transferred from your current fund to us.

2. Register as unemployed and create your CV

Register yourself as unemployed at Jobnet.dk on the first business day after your final exam, meaning your first day of unemployment. This is necessary in order for you to be eligible for and receive your unemployment benefits.

You also need to create a CV on Jobnet.dk within two weeks of your first day of unemployment. You must activate the CV once it is finished, whereafter we need to approve it. We will contact you if we have any questions regarding your CV.

Your CV should contain:

• Your qualifications
• Your past job experience
• Your education
• Your contact information
• What jobs you are looking to apply for

3. Fill out a declaration of unemployment

When you have registered yourself as unemployed, you will need to fill out a declaration of unemployment for graduate students. In the declaration, you should state your first day of unemployment, information about your place of education, and your student job, if you have one. You can only receive your unemployment benefits once we have approved your declaration of unemployment. We will contact you if we need further information.

Please note that our forms are written solely in Danish. You are more than welcome to contact us at 70 10 00 18 if you need help filling them out.

Fill it out here

4. Send out job applications the same day you have registered yourself as unemployed

You need to apply for multiple full-time jobs every week. You need to register this in your joblog (Jobloggen) at Jobnet.dk each week, otherwise you might not be able to receive your unemployment benefits. You should also upload two copies of job applications at Jobnet.dk each month. You should be able to accept and start a full-time job with a day’s notice.

5. Fill out your benefits eligibility form every month

The benefits eligibility form will be available when your declaration of unemployment has been approved. The benefits eligibility form is available to fill out on the sixth last day of the month. In the benefits eligibility form, you can tell us if you have been sick, on vacation, worked or other activities in the last month. You will always have one month and ten days to fill out the benefits eligibility form.

Please note that our forms are written solely in Danish. You are more than welcome to contact us at 70 10 00 18 if you need help filling them out.

Fill it out here

6. Participate in meetings at your jobcentre and at the Teachers’ Unemployment Insurance Fund

You need to participate in the appointments that the jobcentre and that the Teachers’ Unemployment Insurance Fund call you in for. You should also participate in the events and activities that you sign up for at the jobcentre. If you do not meet up to the appointments, events or activities, you might not be able to receive your unemployment benefits.

Your first appointment with us is the introductory meeting. We will call you in for this meeting fourteen days after you have registered yourself as unemployed, at the latest. You can read what you need to prepare before the meeting in the meeting notice, so the appointment will be as fruitful and useful for you as possible. We will end the meeting with working out a plan for your job search.

After your first meeting with us and at the jobcentre, you should book all your future appointments yourself. We will notify you once it is time to book a new meeting, and provide a deadline for when you need to book it. If you do not book a meeting before the deadline, you will be deregistered as unemployed on Jobnet.dk. If you are deregistered you will need to register yourself as unemployed once more, and then you will be asked to book a new meeting.

If you are sick, or you have a job interview or work on the same day and time, you do not have to meet up to the appointment, as long as you cancel the meeting to us or the jobcentre. This counts as legal absence.

7. Check your inbox and read your messages from us on a daily basis

It is important that you check your messages from us on a daily basis, since we might have to call you in for a meeting with a day’s notice. Please note that these messages are sent within our website’s database. Log in here to see your inbox. You should also check your messages from your jobcentre on a daily basis. You will communicate with your jobcentre at Jobnet.dk and on your digital post. You can read your digital post on e-Boks, for example.

Click here to read more about the unemployment benefits rules and the rules for job seekers

8. Vacation and sick leave

You should call in sick at Jobnet.dk if you fall ill. Remember to leave a notice when you have recovered.

If you are going on vacation, you need to leave a notice on Jobnet.dk fourteen days before your vacation starts, at the latest. Remember to also leave a notice if you wish to go on vacation abroad while you are unemployed, since you will not receive unemployment benefits while on vacation.

Do you already have a full-time job?

If you are newly graduated, and only need to receive unemployment benefits during a short period of time before you start a full-time job, you can apply for a reduced program through your jobcentre. If there are less than six weeks intil you start a full-time job, and you have signed your contract, you will be able to be exempt from applying for jobs and participating in counselling from your fund and jobcentre. In order to receive unemployment benefits while you are on a reduced program, you will need to stay in Denmark and not go abroad on vacation, and you should have an active CV on Jobnet.dk. Contact your jobcentre if you wish to apply for a reduced program.

Any questions? Call us at 70 10 00 18