Job Seeking

Job scope in different countries, portal sources and Tips for Interview:

Jobs in Sweden.

       Arbetsformedlingen helps you finding a job, you need to make registration with Arbets office, they will guide regarding how to search job, internship, CV making skills..

Arbetsförmedlingen is the largest placement service for work in Sweden, important task is to bring together those who have a vacancy to fill with those who are looking for work. By creating meeting places for employers and jobseekers, they contribute to a well-functioning labour market.

It should be easy to make good use of the service provided by Arbetsförmedlingen. You can always visit  local employment offices. They are located throughout the entire country. By telephone, you can reach them..

http://www.arbetsformedlingen.se/Globalmeny/Other-languages/New-in-Sweden/We-help-you-find-a-job-in-Sweden.html

Some vacancies in Sweden are advertised in the press.
• The daily newspaper, Dagens Nyheter (http://www.dn.se/), has the largest number of job adverts.  Thursdays and Sundays are the main days when job adverts are published.
• Svenska Dagbladet (http://www.svd.se/) and Dagens Industri (http://www.di.se/) have more business-orientated vacancies.
• You will also find jobs advertised in local and regional newspapers - links to these can be found via Kidon Media-Link (http://www.kidon.com/media-link).
 
Online recruitment services and job listings
Vacancies are also advertised on the internet via job websites. Examples include:
• Jobb24 (http://www.jobb24.se);
• JobFinder.se (http://www.jobfinder.se);
• Merajobb (http://www.merajobb.se);
• Monster (Sweden) (http://www.monster.se/);
• Stepstone Sweden (http://www.stepstone.se).

 Blocket jobs:
http://jobb.blocket.se/lediga_jobb_i_hela_sverige/?gclid=CKqMo5a99bgCFdR7cAodjREAAg

Thelocal job:

http://www.thelocal.se/jobs/?site=tlse  

Newspaper job(part time with studies)
http://www.premo.se/

For IT related persons, Ericsson is good choice, many of my friends working in ericsson, are happy with their packages, allounces and purges. 
Ericsson is project based leading innovation software development company, offers many jobs in programming language, even those who dont understand swedish language can have nice professional job with ericsson. they provide a holistic approach that helps you remain competitive in a market defined by rapidly evolving technology, a steady stream of new players and increasingly demanding consumers, telecom market and business evolution, and help you identify user needs and address them through business-model evolution, service-management innovation and technology strategies.they offers summer jobs, internship and graduate job,  the portal is following
http://www.ericsson.com/careers

Although you can try many other software houses as well..

A number of international companies are firmly established in Sweden. Further information on companies with links to Sweden or those that work in Sweden can be obtained from the

http://www.kompass.com is a worldwide business directory searchable by country and product/service.

http://www.europages.com  (details of companies by products and services)

In situation when you are student, currently in sweden, in order to switch to work permit, the migration authority will want to have atleast 30 credits otherwise its impossible to switch to work permit from student status.

Job Portals/websites in Finland

Now as far as jobs are concerned.
Yes there are lot of jobs for Software Enginers..
 Jobs are in Helsinki,Tampere & Turku.

there is also a jobs portal
www.elanit.com 

select suomi(finland)
than Press HAE(search) button..it will produce all available jobs in Finland.

but this is one portal there are lot of jobs websites and recruitment agencies.

 Jobs in Austria:

  Due to small number of students, part time jobs are available in Austria. For example you can do a newspaper delivery job and earn 500 Euros a month. This job is easy to get in winter because people avoid doing it due to cold. In big cities like Vienna, student work in restaurants and earn reasonable amount to support themselves for their study period. If you are technical person, you can work in some company as and internee and they may pay you from 400 to 800 Euros (it is just a rough estimate). But, it’s always hard to find such internships related to your field of study. Still, there are more opportunities here in the technical field as compared to Norway, Finland and  Sweden. If you want to work here, then for that you have to get work permit. Work permit is hard to get everywhere in Europe because of policy of European Union. Companies are asked to hire local Europeans unless absolutely necessary. If you are too good in your field, then you will have no problem in getting a work permit. After your Master degree, there is no “work-search” visa here in Austria. In Germany, they usually give you a work-search visa once you complete your Master or Bachelors degree. Here in Austria, students, if they get an internship/trainee-ship in some company, they usually get admission into another study program. Then with time, company may hire them if they are good enough and in that case they get a work permit. You can also get a visa on basis of your internship/trainee-ship, but it is usually of 6 months only. So, it is better to get admission into another Masters to get a  visa/residence permit for a year.

Norway

Norway is pretty good in terms of pay,  you   start at a good starting salary and there are a lot of opportunities to   make good money by doing various project work ,  which  are usually paid in addition to what you are being paid as your normal salary . Also   on some jobs you  can do a lot of  over time, so in the  end the equation looks pretty good.

But the big question is to get the job , and  it not that easy  to get one without knowing the local language , even if you have done your masters degree from  here , but its not difficult either, except programming jobs and few other jobs but better trying struggle for job

There is less competition in Norway, and salaries are much higher (more than double than in Germany). So career wise, Norway is better for work. However, in some fields (related to Engineering, and Computer sciences), I've heard that there are more jobs available in Germany, as compared to Norway.

To get job in Europe you must have need to apply from different sites as much as possible 

monster global 

linkedIn

Recuritment sites

and for norway finn.no

Phd is just like a job in Norway or most of countries of Europe, so a bit difficult to find. visit websites of individual universities for any possible phd position. major universities are university of oslo, bergen,tromsø, stavanger and NTNU.

TIPS

Its is to search for job at the end of your study, completion. When you in last year of studies. there are some companies which gives job before degree completion, later on after degree completion there are hired permanently.

CV

Norwegian Cv’s are usually very short and precise so its important to have your CV according to Norwegian usual, it should to be to the point and concise, A lot of details of  projects and stuff will make it tedious, so write about your responsibilities and your expertise.

If you think the available reference letters are not the ones which meet the Norwegian standard, then write a sentence that ref letters will be presented on demand.

In most of cases they ask for the ref letters, so its better to take those with you, while going to interview.

For graduate student, make the CV of only 1 page, but in some case if your experience is more than two years, then make CV of two pages, but try to mention the experiences etc in one page.

Emphasize more on the experience and positions regarding education as well.

Cover letter

Cover letter is very important, it should be interesting so that It should catch the eyes of reader/employer, make it in the way that it looks like summary of your CV, your study background and experiences.  Stay away from self- parsing. Just mention what you hold. Try to write the sentences that fascinate a person.

Interview tips

1-      In most of situations, they will ask you for short presentation of your previous project/thesis. Get ready for that, make a pleasant start, speak clear, louder and understandable. Norwegian are that much good in English speaking and understanding so easily you can impress and convince theme again.

2-      In situation when they ask you to proceed in Norwegian language. Try your best to answer them in Norwegian language even if its not frequent, they will understand that this person is interested in Norwegian language, want to learn.

3-      This is very common thing, to introduce yourself , of course they will ask you, try to start from your Master degree or  earlier job.

4-      Another question that’s often asked, is about the company and the position. Make sure to get all the information about the company and responsibilities of that position you have applied for, so when he asks, tell him/her individually aspects/facts of company, most likely about the Economic/financial aspect i.e. figure of company on website is available usually. This is quiet impressive way to convince the employer.

5-      Don’t exaggerate things in CV, mostly they see the cv and ask question regarding cv. You should have good answers for all question regarding your information in CV. Interview is usually not that much tough and technical. Mostly they focus on CV.

6-      To all question, reply answer with some example. Don’t say Yes/No only to any question.