http://blog.pokristensson.com/2010/02/10/sweden-in-decline/ Researcher in human-computer interaction Wed, 22 May 2013 23:27:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blog.pokristensson.com/2010/02/10/sweden-in-decline/comment-page-1/#comment-38687 ed Sat, 22 Sep 2012 17:36:23 +0000 http://blog.pokristensson.com/?p=21#comment-38687 Its an interesting topic. I am an Englishman living in Sweden and my usual optimism in getting jobs – Ive never had a problem to find something in England – disintegrated in the space of a few months and at one point I was pretty certain that I was going to have to leave. I couldn’t possibly say whether its a good thing but my experience in other countries is that there is more fluidity in the job market and a culture of recruitment consultants who rely on stimulating the job markets at either end for their salaries. Sure recruitment companies exist but they don’t seem overly interested. Its also a very homogenous job market and it is extremely rare that a Swedish company would take a non-fluent Swedish speaking foreigner whatever their qualifications and experience and so consequently Sweden is not benefitting from cross cultural exchange. I started to go down the route of self-employment but realized how much more complicated and quite frankly boring it is compared to the UK and gave up. Work should be something challenging and fun but I get more of an over all sense of work to live and not live to work, not that thats a bad thing just not competitive when you compare it to other countries.

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