Be successful in your job hunting Career Days Odense, 2019 - By Recruitment Consultant and EURES Adviser Sofie Ejdesgaard

Be successful in your job hunting
   Career Days Odense, 2019
 By Recruitment Consultant and EURES
                Adviser
Sofie Ejdesgaard sse@workindenmark.dk

Programme

• Workindenmark

• CV and cover letter

• Job interview

• Tips for successful job search in Denmark

Workindenmark
Assists:
• Danish companies
     - in attracting and recruiting highly qualified
foreign candidates

• Highly qualified international jobseekers
    - in finding a job in Denmark

E-learning course on job search in
Denmark

How to write your CV?

                        © Colourbox

A good CV

Is your marketing tool !

  • Leave a good impression of you just by
   scanning it

  • Short and precise: Max 2 pages - student 1
   page

  • Targeted to the specific job

  • English or Danish?

How to Structure your
Chronological CV
1.   Personal details
2.   Personal profile
3.   Work experience
4.   Education
5.   Skills
6.   Interests
7.   References

• State your fluency level
• Include mother tongue
• Include Danish

• List IT programs you are familiar with
• Indicate level of proficiency

or
• Include the names and contact
  information of your references - if you
  have approval

Points to remember

• Max 1 page

• Documentation
     do not send documentation unless mentioned in the job
ad

• Have someone read over your CV

• Do a spell check!
     (No: “I speak fluent Englesh, Inglish, Eniglish”)

• Print out your CV! (PDF)

Cover Letter

Guidelines

• Future oriented and targeted – focus on what
  the company needs

• Short and precise - One A4 page

• Pick the essential requirements (key words)
  from
    the advertisement and answer them carefully

Introducto
    ry
paragraph     Motivation
             for applying
              for this job

Why is my     Previous
 profile     experience
relevant?
              and tasks

              How my
             personality
Conclude       fits the
  on a       company’s
positive      culture ?
  note

Job interview

• Preparation is everything

• More than one interview

• More than one person present

• Tests could be involved - Personal or practical

Unwritten rules

• Punctuality

• Firm hand shake – hello and good bye

• Eye contact with all present

• Accept coffee if offered,
    part of the cosy atmosphere / hygge

                                          © Colourbox

Questions often asked
Motivation
•   What motivates you?
•   Why should we hire/ choose you?
•   What makes you think that you fit this job?
Key skills – how do you match the job
•   Tell us something about yourself – (prepare an elevator pitch!)
•   What action would you take first?
•   Which role do you have in groups?
•   What are your three most important qualities?
Personality
•   What kind of people do you find it difficult to work with?
•   Describe how you handled a difficult person/difficult situation
•   What do you expect from your next boss/ colleagues?
•   What are you weaknesses?

Tips for your job search in
         Denmark

What is your market value?

Identify your competences, experience,
demands

    What are your qualifications?
    Do you have special skills?

                                         © Colourbox

Language skills

Learn Danish

Improve your English

Your own language is important too

Use your international background

Find companies that:

• wish to enter foreign markets

• export / import companies

                                  © Colourbox

Job databases
• www.workindenmark.dk           create a profile in our CV
 bank!
• www.jobbank.sdu.dk
• Company websites

 Vacancies in Danish:
• www.jobnet.dk jobcenter’s official website
• www.jobindex.dk

Headline
– describe professional
competences

         Use appropriate
            keywords
         – to pass initial
            screening

How to find companies - Links

• Companies at Karrieredagene
  https://www.karrieredagene.dk/en/participating-companies-organizations-
  exhibitors/

• Top 1000 list of the largest Danish enterprises
  http://www.business.dk/business-magasin/her-er-danmarks-1000-stoerste-
  virksomheder (Danish website)

• Danish Export Association            www.dk-export.com

• Gazelle-virksomheder
  http://borsen.dk/konferencer/gazeller.html (Danish website)

• Work – Live – Stay: List of companies                 https://work-live-

Use unsolicited applications

A large number of jobs are never advertised

  • You’re not competing against a large group of
    people

  • Employers save time and money
          - if they can find somebody without
  advertising

Networking
Take initiative: meet many different persons
through

•   Organizations/ Associations (Foreninger)
•   Sports Clubs
•   Volunteer work
•   Social media:

Remember

• Use your international background

• Target your CV and cover letter

• Know what Danish companies expect