The agency should help facilitate meetings and bring together employers with job seekers, especially those who are long-term unemployed and have particular difficulties in finding work.

[1][2] This is primarily done by giving active support to companies in the recruitment process, facilitating meetings at the premises of the Swedish Public Employment Service and the use of a searchable, gratis vacancy database (Swedish: Platsbanken).

The agency has an additional responsibility to monitor job seekers to prevent benefit and insurance fraud, and should provide unemployment forecasts and statistics to the government.

It is led by Director-General Maria Hemström Hemmingsson, from the head office in Stockholm.

As a consequence of a political deal between the minority government and parts of the opposition the agency had its budget severely cut in the end of 2018.