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..
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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.


 

Esbjerg vs Copenhagen

Denmark is one of beautiful and peaceful country which I have ever seen. When I say about the city Esbjerg, it’s very calm with limited population. Being the fifth largest city in Denmark, it sounds to very small to me with its geographical area. People over here are very calm and polite. The culture is more like old European fashion. If you are a guy who drinks beer and visit pub regularly, you can enjoy the night life. The main problem what a foreigner faces is the language, if one knows the Danish language it’s a cake walk for him/her to do any kinda stuffs here. Climate is much cold here when compared with Copenhagen. The future for people like us depends upon the language to survive for sure. From summer part time to full time they need us to speak their language. I have noticed that in Denmark, they have made the rules tough rules to foreigners particularly immigrants. The Danish govt sucks to an extent. They keep changing the rules very often. But apart from these stuffs, it’s one of the good places to live with free health insurance, studies and other beneficial stuffs.

For me Copenhagen is a heaven, one can find everything what they need. From luxury to ripped off level. Somehow I believe it’s the world's center place and I personally like it very much, even from pronouncing its name. My friends have done part time jobs over there. But it’s tough to get one, since the jobs are in restaurants it’s little hard to get. I knew getting a full time job will be very tough again because language plays a main factor. Though one can succeed when they have the real talent with the particular field. The cost of living in Esbjerg is quite high when compared to Sweden. As a student its costs me 2500 dkk per month for food and rent alone. It doesn't include internet bill or other expense you make outside. But over there in cph its quite high and at least one need 3,500 to survive. Much expensive than any other Danish cities. People told me that without jobs they can't imagine life over there.

Copenhagen Calling

Life is a taxi, as my friend explained to me earlier. People who are interested in life or interested with taxi will get into the car. It’s you, the driver who drives it till the end. Random passengers in train who sits with you and if either one of them in interested in talking, they start with the conversation. I'm writing this post in a travelling train traversing from Copenhagen to Esbjerg. It's a nice experience to travel in winter season, though your body experience pain due to the cold. The freezing snowflakes blowing outside and hitting the window, while I sit in the window seat and start typing on my keypad. That’s a nice feeling to work on, when you see the white land outside and still concentrating on your computer without your body being stable. The journey started on fine evening, though I was very early to the railway station, considering my Danish class in advance of my travel schedule. I have fixed that I should miss my girl who comes to the Danish class. The day I have seen palm history in her hands and trying to explain my feelings about her was at least interesting for me, since I have never tried to this to any female for expressing my love. I have done this kinda technique to Elsa for getting her attention in other way, inspite understand her. But this will be a definitely a challenging case for me. I have to park my bicycle in the Esbjerg railway station and start my journey alone. Its 1:05 at midnight, I called karthik who was waiting in the station with his friend looking for me. There are few surprises like seeing different ethics people at midnight and meeting my old Bangladesh friend from halmstad. That was the first day in my life I took the two zone ticket in bus at danmark. It costed me 23 dkk, but still it's a nice experience to know in buying tickets in a foreign country. The denominations where kept separately in a jar as the driver press the corresponding button the customer receives the change and he is the one who has to collect it by pressing the handle top wards, funny but this is how the system works. The important thing which has to noted down is the credit or debit cards are not accepted in buying the tickets. Anyways we reached their typical Danish apartment by 2 and ate. That was sambhar with mango mix and pickle to add its taste. Wow, what a wonderful combination. The night went by karthik friend passing jokes comment on his wander about friend. The I have to get up in the morning 9 am; thinking it was too early to wakeup. Then I took the help from karthik to travel to the Swedish embassy in CPH. The day started with snow when we took the initial bus, Again I had new experience in travelling with the local metro train. The interesting part of this system is it doesn't have any driver to control the train. I felt the metro experience was similar to the one which I notice in Italy, except this is unmanned. The infrastructure and the paintings inside proved made me this feeling. When we reached the desired point, it was sunny and still freezing. We managed to find the embassy and finished the job by filing the visa. I was little curious about the place which landed us to see the coat or arms changing their shift by 12 at Danish palace. That was again nice experience, because I have seen these activities in the movies that were real with royalty. Then we couldn't manage to stay longer so we opted out to our room. The interesting thing which I learned is the camera lost its capability to switch on and showed less battery inspite having two points which I noticed at some points later, even while coming back in the train now. We reached room by direct local train and felt so hungry, I wanted to taste prawn food, since I felt it’s been long  sometime in Sweden, I have tasted it that raw shrimp. So we decided to hang out to nearby netto and managed to get chicken instead of prawn. The weather now turned to be little gloomy, when we returned to our place. I have to wait for the food to get cooked, meanwhile I meddled with facebook and felt little happy after seeing the likings of henrik and Mona about copen-heaven wall post. Later we had our lunch by 6 and headed to babu’s place, where I have to catch two buses, this time I used karthik friends buss pass to travel.  It’s an advantage that Indian faces look more or less similar to the foreigners, as we felt when seeing them. So I have to spend some time with babu and his friends and returned to home with the bag which I gave to babu few months earlier. The surprises continued for me, the people who resided at babu’s place, holds green card still doing some random part time jobs. That’s the job situation to the people from foreign country. Late evening, I had to have the remaining food which we cooked for lunch and went to bed. I woke up so early before my alarm strikes and say bye to karthik and magesh who came last night. Then I headed out with the dilemma of getting bus ticket, and then as told my karthik, we can use the dsb ticket for getting into the bus. The bus took like 40 minutes to the station which I didn’t expect at that time and still I had some time to look around the places around københavn central railway station. I love this station very much, because this is the place where I initially landed when I come to Scandinavia and this is the place where I halted when I travelled with my friends from halmstad to Esbjerg few months ago, not to mention my msg which I wrote to my friend at these situations. With the two breads in my stomach, I had to travel 300 kilometres in 3 hrs. I have to spend 368 dkk (79, 230, 23, 23, and 23) totally for my travel, but it’s still worth learning some of these experiences and remembering those beautiful memories.