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Job search and career development tips

Looking for a new job? Tekna can help you if you either want to look for a new job or stay in your current ... inspiration you need, whether you’re starting your first job or moving closer to the end of your career. Tekna's...

Finding a new job

...for jobs? Tips and advice for your job search Where are you in your career? Looking for a new job? Or ... Below you’ll find everything you need to know about job seeking, whether you’re a recent graduate or have...

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Should you ever ask about salary during a job interview?

...proposal before looking at the salary? Råd og tips As a job seeker, you expect a certain amount of salary ... everything, or can it help your chances of getting the job? – It’s kind of a delicate question, so it depends...

Social media and employers

...sosiale medier,sosiale medier arbeidstid Råd og tips Statements made on social media may either be publicly ... additionally, many people have particularly independent jobs or management positions with no fixed work schedules...

Module 1 – What are you good at?

...every job you’ve ever had, your experience and acquired skills. While this seems like a tough job and takes ... to when you were a student and including all your jobs and other work-related experiences. Think about...

Module 2 – Figure out what you want to do

...good choices in life. For instance, if you have a job you like, you’ll be more productive at it. You’ll ... the right career for yourself. Råd og tips While there are many jobs that may appear interesting on the...

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Hate Your CV? Try Some TLC

CV- tip: Do you hate your CV? Don´t you recognice yoursef? Try some TLC (tender loving care) with the ... writing skills,English writing skills,job search,job seeking tips,working in norway,writing skills, Working...

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

– especially if we’re actively looking for a new job. But what … Since we’re so often told that all of ... looking for a new job. international workplace,job search,job seeker,Norway,older job seeker, Working in...

What’s your look on ‘Link’?

...outsider whose job is to help them put their best writing foot forward so they’ll quickly land a job after finishing ... writing skills,cv writing tips,job search tips,job seeking advice,LinkedIn writing tips, Working in Norway Lately...

Phone Follow-up: Job Seeking in a Perfect World

If there’s one thing I’d wish for you as a job seeker, it’d be that whenever you called the organization ... how … international workplace,job search tips,job seeking tips,jobbsøk,jobs in Norway,Norwegian business...

Remotely possible? Getting no response to your (carefully crafted) job application

Are you a job-seeking casualty of companies that have gone remote, too? Working in Norway My sad story ... story A few weeks ago I applied for a job appearing in my LinkedIn feed. The phrase ‘I applied for…’ should...

Five steps to landing your first dream job

Is your goal to find a job that’ll leave you happy at the end of the day? Even if you’re still a student ... needed to finding and landing your first dream job. Råd og tips Whether you’re a new student or have been...

Can You Find the Mistake?

...skills,cv writing tips,English writing skills,job search tips,job seeking,job seeking tips, Working in Norway ... here? Answer: It’s the one that a huge number of job seekers make when putting their Summary together...

Let’s be perfectly clear: Writing the Summary on your CV

...right or wrong in resume writing frustrates some job seekers, especially engineers, whose training has ... writing skills,cv writing tips,English writing skills,job search,job seeker,job seeking, Working in Norway...

The Most Common Mistake CV Writers Make

Can you spot the mistake? Recently, a job-seeking engineer sent me their CV to proofread for grammatical ... skills,cv writing tips,english CV,English writing skills,job search,job seeking tips, Working in Norway...

How/Why Should You Write a CV Summary?

...writing skills,English CV writing skills,job search tips,job seeking tips,resume writing skills, Working in ... experience. Instead, I’ve been writing back to all these job seekers encouraging them to put in a Summary right...

Looking for work?: Tips on how to write about your skill set

Everyone who’s had at least one job in their life has learned some skills along the way. What kind of ... set). More than being a ‘team player’ When I ask job seekers this question, they often answer me in rather...

Your job search: How to show how smart you are?

(we all do). Especially when you’re looking for a job. But just write about yourself in a simple, clear ... this, okay? Awhile back while teaching a course for job seekers, several of the people there expressed a...

No, Really: Why Didn’t I Get the Job? Foreign Speakers’ Need to Be in the Interview Feedback Loop

...article about our need to find out why we didn’t get a job offer after being interviewed. Something we said ... workplace,interview skills,interview technique,job search, Working in Norway Recently, I posted an article...

Unemployment benefits and your rights

...when you’ve been laid off or are unemployed. Råd og tips In order to qualify for unemployment benefits, you ... five days each week. Obligation to be an active job seeker You can lose your right to receive unemployment...

Working in Norway: “Do Norwegians Like Foreigners?”

...in Trondheim, a major city making up the northern tip of the Oslo-Bergen-Trondheim tourist triangle. There ... of my course, the ‘living’ section, having given tips and advice as to how they could thrive in their...

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Don’t Buzz: How to Avoid Using the Overused When Writing Your CV

...follow); my first impulse is to tell them to go onto a search engine and write in f.ex. ‘synonyms for motivated’ ... words that pop up are appropriate in the context of job-seeking? This is an answer that works better for...