Friday, April 19, 2013

Study and work in Scandinavia

Q: Education and  work in sweden:

In my opinion on the Scandinavian life. I would definitely encourage the people to have their studies in Sweden. Education over here is simply superb. I have learnt to love for my thesis. This infrastructure and the environment made to stay focus on my study.
Before you come to Sweden for studies, make sure what stream or whats your field of interest with futuristic goals. Cos, I knew learning something "new" would end up in the consuming lot of time. My better advice is to choose the right course in right university.
Search for top 10 universities in Sweden and apply for it. The chances of getting up is likely more higher than selecting your course in some random universities. Moreover the universities rank level, will fetch you extra credits for your danish green card points.

For Jobs:
Try to come here, after having at-least 2-3 years of job experience in your field. The job skills which they look here is more professional. You have to really mastered in what you study. Hope you know the ECTS system, they would expect minimum 5 ECTS for selecting your documents for job application.

I feel, language and contacts play a major role in getting job here. I also wanted to say you swedes are reserved in their characters.

You can start applying jobs from here, with a good CV and Best Personal Letter.
http://www.thelocal.se/jobs/#.UXFTY7WnqLM

I must have sent at least 1000 applications in these Nordic countries and got a response, less than 10 times.. That hard for a international fresher to get a job here..

anyways, try your level best. I wanted you to carry hope in all forms..
Jobs in Sweden - The Local
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Jobs in Sweden in English - hundreds of employment opportunities at international and Swedish companies for foreign professionals living and working in Sweden

Q: But I am into looking at Danish green card..just want to know if its worth going through it and landing in Denmark. Not sure about the job prospects and markets over there..

I understand, the situation about your work. Since you got a European degree, it should be positive for you to get danish green card.
http://www.nyidanmark.dk/en-us/
http://www.nyidanmark.dk/en-us/coming_to_dk/work/greencard-scheme/greencard-scheme.htm
These links should give you the points requirements and other stuffs, if you planned to apply.. And also when you have proper bank statement, it's a cake walk for you get the green card.

whats after getting the green card will be the main question..
It's more like sweden, only differs by language and little bit of political stuffs. cph people can understand the southern sweden accent, in that way, I dnt have any problem in understanding them.
I still advice you to learn danish, if you really looking for quick good professorial job. It's tougher than Swedish. I have 5 months experience of danish language and you know what, I felt very hard to pronounce and listen to those words.. anyways' little interest and determination to learn the language, definitely pave way for it.. For sure, It would take more than a year to speak it. minimum 5-6 months, if they are good in language

What I have seen in denmark is, people coming from india, staying in cph, trying to apply for professional job, eventually they end up in part time jobs (hard) to capitalize their finance. They start these hard jobs as a part time and it becomes a full time due to their time..
ONLY 10 in 1 are ending up in professional job, as far as I have seen. But if you could stay there for long time and trying to make contacts, you could end up in good job maybe after 1 or 2 or even in the worst case 3 years, by the time your visa have been ended.

I knew a guy who was teaching students in maldives, coming here and working in a shop(black job).
other guy who have the green card, working in hotel for staff keeping, for no surprise it's a white job and he sticked to it, later he called one of this other friend to the same work. Interestingly this guy did his master's(Embedded) in sweden.

So this is how it works, people work in paper distribution(white and black), Restaurants( white and black), fruit shop(w n b), kebab shop(w n b). These jobs are easy for the people who can't speak danish. So you understand their situation for language.

It all depends upon payment, the software guys get the same pay as the one who works in commune paper distribution, so people tries to stick to it, just by getting satisfied with the pays.. There is no future with their 18 years education..

at least in our countries ppl end up in some software companies with their engineering background, but here it's completely different.

I dnt know how's the case in UK and other european countries, but here in nordic countries, this is the case.. My advice will be, whatever or however it may be, if you are going for it.. just do things in a professional way to get job, without loosing any hope.. learn the language, master your skills with programming or whatever job prerequisite, One day or the other you will definitely end in the highest tax paying countries.

One more thing, which keeps haunting in my mind these days is, do we really need to come abroad to do hard jobs are some other random jobs, while we got ample of opportunities in our home country.. If that's the case, that year of education’s meaningless... May be it takes 1 or 2 years to get settled with a job, but it won't be a big issue, if we have little patience. I do believe about luck, because it has favored me in many occasions, but upon that, our hard work, belief and our basic human character, determines what we are and where we stand. Trying to live in western countries may be the list in our comfort zone, but on the other hand, it's really hard if we imagine our parents and loved ones living 10,000 kmph away. That’s something we will miss for sure. As an example, think of the son/daughter, who leaves home for few years/permanently, definitely, its goanna be tough for their parents, they don’t want to miss them, and even they were given ransom, that's the case.
Initially it took one year for me to understand the life of Swedes and 6 more months for the student’s life and one year for the language with immigrant’s life w/wo Swedes, upon that one year time for learning professional and hard jobs. In-between relationship with females, trust with friends, travel around places, examining food, culture, fashion took 4 years of my life in Scandinavia to meet the Swedes standards and still counting on it.
Any way’s these were something, I wanted to make a point. You are a master graduate, with your age as an experience; you have your own ways of judging things and taking actions. As long as you willing to work hard, without losing hopes, you will succeed.


 

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