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Your LinkedIn Summary: Be Smart, Write Smart

LinkedIn courses last week, this time in Oslo, I told the people there that I most often get inspiration for ... writing skills,international workplace,LinkedIn profile,Norwegian workplace, Working in Norway You don’t...

How to Break My Language Barrier

Participation: The Keys to the Communication Castle? Over the course of a regular workday in the global workplace ... take place in the life of a foreign-born employee whose language is one other than that of the native population...

Working abroad

...basis. Read the useful information below if you’re planning on working overseas. Please note: the content ... of this page is targeted towards working for a Norwegian employer. Råd og tips Tekna help you with Legal...

Want to work in Norway? This is what you need to know

...in learning more about the requirements for residence permits to look at the UDI website – which is available ... To shed some light on the situation, we asked Vidar Hegge, senior adviser at The Directorate of Immigration...

Important political breakthroughs made in spring 2021

...political breakthroughs in areas including the workplace, competency, technology and sustainability, ... Right to unemployment compensation during schooling The temporary plan that was implemented in spring 2020...

Must secure rights for working remotely

The Confederation of Norwegian Enterprises (NHO) recently announced that the idea of working from home ... Aktuelt While Tekna supports the increased use of home offices after the pandemic is over, it’s important...

Are you (at all) interested in what you do at work?

...international workplace,networking skills,professional development,the Norwegian workplace,working in norway ... to make yourself heard, but meeting someone for the first time, for instance at a work-related conference...

Working in Norway: What’s your added value?

...an entrepreneur as the only way to make it in business? “Value added: describes the enhancement a company ... company gives its product or service before offering the product to customers.” (Investopedia) Thought of...

Membership benefits from A-Z

What Does Integration Mean to You?

By ‘living’ I mean all the things you do outside of work, from shopping at the grocery store to…what, ... exactly? What do you do during the rest of the time that’s not included in your 37.5 hour work … Working...

When Rude Isn’t Rude: Norway Scores Third Person Shutout

...shutout (US) is a game in which one team prevents the other from scoring any points. I teach a course called ... new to the country. Its main aim is that by the time they walk out the door at the end of the evening...

Integration: How to Move to Norway

Norway, learn something about Norway. Then tell Norwegians what you’ve learned. As often as you can. It ... certainly no expert on the ins and outs of Norwegian life before getting off the plane at the Oslo airport for...

ICT and software engineers have lowest rate of trade union membership

These are the professions behind the numbers The numbers for trade union membership broken down into ... show which trade union the respective professionals are members of; neither is the length of their education...

Salary and Negotiations

...appropriate salary level by providing them with the information and arguments they need during salary ... agreements on salary and working conditions with both the public (local and central) and private sectors. Local...

Looking for work?

Tekna is here to help you! Legal aid is only one of the ways we can help members looking for work due to ... restructuring, layoffs or termination. Legal aid During workplace restructuring processes, your local Tekna group...

Skype Meetings: You Can’t Run and You Can’t Hide

The other day I was signed up to teach a group of people working in Norway how to make a high-quality ... presentation in English after learning my tips of the trade about how to perform well in front of a large...

The Right Way to Think About Your LinkedIn Connections

...when you take the first bite … cv writing,intercultural communication,international workplace,job search ... search,job seeking,LinkedIn profile,Norwegian workplace, Working in Norway Teaching a new topic is like trying...

Tekna members' guide to a residence permit for work in Norway

...work in Norway For citizens of a country outside the EU/EEA If you want to work in Norway and are a citizen ... Self-employed persons For more information visit The Norwegian Directorate of Immigration Newly qualified job...

Integrating in Norway: Why you should join a volunteer board

One of the fastest ways to integrate yourself in society here is to join a volunteer board. I didn’t ... didn’t say it was one of the easiest – why? Because you have to participate at meetings. You can’t just sit...

Parental leave in Norway? What you should know

...paternity and maternity leave. Working in Norway The intent of parental benefits is to provide you with ... divided into three parts – one part for the mother, one part for the partner and a part that can freely be...

Is this why we all want to work in Norway?

Norway. Can the Norwegian welfare state and the strong Norwegian labor unions be a part of the explanation ... resident alien’ of the country for more than 20 years, I experienced firsthand the country’s welfare state...

Record growth – Tekna membership passes 100,000

000 members. In the past year alone, it’s gained 10,000 new members. Aktuelt Tekna is the country’s largest ... and shows that an increasing number of people see the value of being in a trade union, declares Tekna President...

Egenmelding: What to do if you can’t work because you’re sick/injured

Sometimes life throws you a curve ball in the form of a sudden illness or injury that prevents you from ... feeling terrible. Sore throat, achy limbs, headache, the works. You really don’t feel up to going to work...

This is what technologists are demanding of the new government

Tekna’s been closely following the process surrounding the new government’s formation, having both expectations ... expectations of and input for its new platform. – We expect the Støre government to deliver in areas such as increasing...

Probation

Probation is very common in Norwegian employment contracts. The purpose of probation is to establish ... period where the employer has the opportunity to test the employee’s adaptation to the work, professional...