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Beyond Networking: Learn to Ask the Quality Question

On an average annual basis, thousands of employees in international companies spend thousands of hours ... communication, Working in Norway On an average annual basis, thousands of employees in international companies...

How is blockchain being used today?

LIVE on the 3.th of November at 5.00 PM TeknaX Enjoy a seminar with the stories on how and where blockchain ... topics. We make the unknown known at high speed, in a social setting. Each post lasts a maximum of 12...

Article Tema: IKT Nov. 3 2022 Streaming

Working abroad

...employer. Råd og tips Tekna help you with… Legal advice in all phases of working abroad Reading through and ... have to do with respect to the tax authorities in Norway/the country where you’ll be working Pension plans...

You Win Some You Lose Some: Non-Native Partners of Non-Native/Native Workers Playing the New Friendship Game

When going through the phase of adjusting to living in a new, foreign culture, it’s not always the foreign ... workplace,living abroad, Working in Norway When going through the phase of adjusting to living in a new,...

Paying It Forward: A Culture of Sharing in Business

...forward instead of back is not new, but rather has been in circulation for several years. The concept is that ... another individual – in whatever great or small way this may be – by doing it in person. paying it forward...

LinkedIn Learning: Summarizing Yourself in Five (Easy*) Steps

...answers in part the question about why, for example, a website … LinkedIn profile, Working in Norway My most ... answers in part the question about why, for example, a website like LinkedIn hasn’t taken off in Norway...

Pension in Norway

...retirement pension (AFP) in the private sector Contractual early retirement pension (AFP) in the public sector ... employment terms. In Norway, everyone collects pension benefits in the National Insurance Plan; in addition,...

The circular economy: Biomaterials and biorefining

LIVE 26.th of September at 9:00AM In this seminar we explore how biobased materials can be utilized from ... small scale to large scale industrial processes, in biorefineries or using bioprocessing to create biobased...

Article Tema: Bio- og klima Sept. 26 2022 Streaming

The Italian Job: Network(ing) Failure at Its Finest

The scene was a cathedral fellowship hall in Bologna, Italy in September last year. My chamber choir was ... LinkedIn profile,Norwegian business culture, Working in Norway Sometimes I really bomb at this networking thing...

Older Job Seekers: The Painful Need to Leave Your Past Behind

...search,job seeker,Norway,older job seeker, Working in Norway But what to leave in and what to leave out ... for new work. Case in point and a quick update for unaware readers: The drastic fall in oil prices over...

‘Why didn’t I get the job?’: Our Need for Post-Interview Answers

...interview in Norway. I had answered a newspaper ad posting a teaching job at a newly started school in the ... area. The student body was made up of adults (as in age 19 and over) who were either going back … Find...

This is how you get elected as a Tekna Representative

...members' rights and interests in their working life and play an important role in what is called the "Norwegian ... professional life: Education from Tekna - often called Norway's best education program for mid-level managers...

Lars Olav Grøvik elected as Tekna’s new president

Tekna’s head company representative in Equinor as well as a board member in Tekna Private and the head of Tekna ... and participating in Parliamentary hearings. He has also held other board positions in several volunteer...

Highly educated adults are the new trade unionists

...immigrant groups have been taken from Statistics Norway and are based on tax returns where a deduction ... shown. The figures have been obtained for professions in which Tekna members are working, the different groups...

A Few Thoughts on a Foreigner’s Comfort Zone

A couple of weeks ago I sat in the audience listening to a professional speaker give a short motivational ... of our ‘Comfort Zone’. She told us different ways in which we could do this, ranging from the smaller...

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How to Break My Language Barrier

...workday in the global workplace, several small and seemingly insignificant events may take place in the life ... intercultural communication,language barrier, Working in Norway Patience and Participation: The Keys to the Communication...

Understanding the Underground: Why Foreign Speakers Sometimes Can’t Stop Speaking

...communication,international workplace, Working in Norway “But do you know what: I am convinced that we ... Dostoyevsky) It doesn’t happen often, but every once in awhile I’m reminded of books I read years ago, or...

Impact at Work: What’s Yours?

Out of the many buzz words currently circling in the working world today, ‘impact’ has to be one of the ... technology changing our lives to individuals changing our thoughts about how we live our lives. One of the dictionary...

But It’s Not My Fault: Business E-Mail Etiquette When Your Sender Can’t Write Right

...appearing in the otherwise fast-paced, hardened world of modern business. What came up and out in … business ... business e-mails,e-mail etiquette, Working in Norway Yet another interesting aspect of modern communication...

The Unspoken Yet Real Reason You Didn’t Get Called For That Job Interview

Job’ by LI Influencer Liz Ryan in which she lists five potential changes in the company at which ‘you’ have ... search,job seeking,LinkedIn profile, Working in Norway I just finished reading an article on LinkedIn...

LinkedIn: Tell the Truth (Please), Part Two

...own life and work experience in this one-page stylized format. ‘It’ in this … CV writing skills,English ... workplace,LinkedIn profile,self-awareness, Working in Norway It happened again. Call me an overly critical...

Get started with your membership in Tekna

Volunteering Have you started using your membership benefits in Tekna? Here you will find an alphabetical list of ... emails you receive from us on My Profile. You log in with the email address you have registered with us...

Employee Wellness in the Norwegian Work Culture

...his wife so much, he almost told her? Working in Norway This old joke brings a smile to many faces, Norwegians ... called intercultural communication. For instance, in 1959 one of ‘int com’s’ founders, American anthropologist...

– A simple country boy from Sunnmøre

...has also been heavily involved in reorganizing his company, Equinor. In the middle of all this activity ... he’s been doing a top-to-bottom remodel of his house in Bergen. – There’s so much I’d like to do and get...