Hi Hi!
Wie der Titel sagt, bin ich vor einiger Zeit nach Norwegen (in der Nähe von Oslo) gezogen und hatte Schwierigkeiten, hier einen Job zu finden. Ich habe viele Bewerbungen beide gesendet Finn.no und an viele Orte gehen, um Lebensläufe auszugeben. (Wichtig zu sagen: Ich habe die High School in der Schweiz abgeschlossen und ein Jahr in der Universität in Physik abgeschlossen, aber ich möchte zumindest vorerst nicht mehr studieren.) Jedenfalls dachte ich, dass zwischen der Schweiz und Norwegen vielleicht Es gibt verschiedene Dinge, die Menschen sagen und/oder tun, um ihre Chancen mit Anwendungen zu erhöhen? Ist es besser, mit einem Ort zu sprechen und auf Norwegisch zu sprechen, auch wenn es nicht perfekt ist oder sich an Englisch festhält?
Danke schön!
New in Norway and struggling to find a job, tips?
byu/ImFoxxo inNorway
Von ImFoxxo
5 Kommentare
What kind of jobs are you applying for?
It depends on what kind of job you are looking for.
>I have graduated from high school in Switzerland
This qualification is way too low to get any meaningful job. Many unskilled/ semi skilled full-time jobs (eg. Driver, Courier guy, security) require a decent grasp of Norwegian. Norwegian is not required for many jobs in the hospitality industry in big cities.
>Like is it better to go talk to a place and talk in Norwegian even if it’s not perfect or stick to English?
I would do it. Trying to talk Norwegian will demonstrate that you are willing to learn the language. Start with Norwegian and switch to English if the other person is impatient of struggling hard to understand your Norwegian.
Learning and speaking is a must. Like your country we have a high degree of English proficiency, but everything will be harder if you don’t speak the language.
Since you’re Swiss, I’m assuming you also speak German and/or French as well. That should help make your cv stand out in a more touristy business/area I think. You need to learn Norwegian. I would also advice to send/give cv’s to businesses that aren’t actively advertising that they’re hiring, if you’re not already. 100% of all my job interviews have been the result of that. Shows initiative, saves them the effort of making an ad on finn, and makes it so you’re competing with less people.
It’s always a struggle to find a job appropriate for your competence. Easiest is to learn language as much as possible and look for simple jobs like warehouse employee or some production through a job agency. Delete from your CV that you’ve finished university as it is my experience and many others that if you are educated they don’t want to hire you for a simple job and that makes your start much harder. When you live and work here for some time, learn how to speak norwegian, maybe go through a process of acceptance for your diploma you got abroad then you can go up and look for work related to your education. A nice CV in norwegian is a must and an application letter that you sent with itv(GPT is a great tool for that if you don’t speak norwegian yet). If you can get any letters of recommendation get them too as these are of great value here and often are mandatory.