Pharmacy in Finland
Pharmacy in Finland
Hi,
I am currently a registered Pharmacy Technician in the United Kingdom and want to live and work in Finland (Joensuu if possible). I can speak and understand most Finnish, if I lived there for a month or two it would soon come back to me so that isn't too much of a problem. I just wanted to know if my UK qualification would allow me to work in Finland and how I would go about applying for a job.
Any information would be much appreciated! Thanks.
I am currently a registered Pharmacy Technician in the United Kingdom and want to live and work in Finland (Joensuu if possible). I can speak and understand most Finnish, if I lived there for a month or two it would soon come back to me so that isn't too much of a problem. I just wanted to know if my UK qualification would allow me to work in Finland and how I would go about applying for a job.
Any information would be much appreciated! Thanks.
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I'd start looking from here : http://www.valvira.fi/en/licensing/prof ... ice_rights
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And then as for the probabilities of landing a job - in what language are you expected to serve people?
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One my friend in mind, from China, with pharmaceutical background found job in pharmacy after few weeks of searching. No Finnish skill.
It looks this area in demand here. All locals speak English ok.
It looks this area in demand here. All locals speak English ok.
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All locals do not want to be speak English even if they could.finlandforumuser wrote:All locals speak English ok.
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I would love to know which pharmacy that is and I will avoid it like the plague. Buying medication from a pharmacy where the person handing over the drugs is not able to read Finnish... sounds very dangerous.One my friend in mind, from China, with pharmaceutical background found job in pharmacy after few weeks of searching.
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I don't think it would be even legal, but some of the larger pharmacies perhaps have jobs such as these that don't need normal qualifications - but even in most of them, I'd expect the people want to be served in Finnish (or possibly Swedish).interleukin wrote:I would love to know which pharmacy that is and I will avoid it like the plague. Buying medication from a pharmacy where the person handing over the drugs is not able to read Finnish... sounds very dangerous.One my friend in mind, from China, with pharmaceutical background found job in pharmacy after few weeks of searching.
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Perhaps, this is correct but in most of companies English is official language. It is good for business, as creates the staff diversification .Upphew wrote:All locals do not want to be speak English even if they could.finlandforumuser wrote:All locals speak English ok.
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Well, Chinese people are very hardworking, so employer really like to hire them.Rip wrote: I don't think it would be even legal,
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I HATE RACISM.interleukin wrote:I would love to know which pharmacy that is and I will avoid it like the plague. Buying medication from a pharmacy where the person handing over the drugs is not able to read Finnish... sounds very dangerous.One my friend in mind, from China, with pharmaceutical background found job in pharmacy after few weeks of searching.
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finlandforumuser wrote: Well, Chinese people are very hardworking, so employer really like to hire them.
I guess you never noticed that your (first quoted) sentence is much closer to being racist than the one you are so upset with..? Anyway hiring only people that know the language that is needed, either to serve customers (using the language they wish to be served with) or otherwise getting the job well and safely done is not racism by any reasonable definition.finlandforumuser wrote:I HATE RACISM.I would love to know which pharmacy that is and I will avoid it like the plague. Buying medication from a pharmacy where the person handing over the drugs is not able to read Finnish... sounds very dangerous.
By the way, I know some hard working Chinese people, some of them even hard working enough to have learned Finnish.
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BS. In Finland we have roughly 320000 companies. 36000 of those have 5 or more people working. And I'd say that even most of those have Finnish as the official language.finlandforumuser wrote:Perhaps, this is correct but in most of companies English is official language. It is good for business, as creates the staff diversification .Upphew wrote:All locals do not want to be speak English even if they could.
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Even if some high-up boss has decided that on paper, the official language of a company is English, it does not mean that the people actually working there will care. They will keep speaking in Finnish in meetings unless there is a foreigner present, the coffee breaks will be in Finnish. The non-Finnish speaker will be a novelty thing and accepted as such if he/she is highly qualified at what he/she does. That does not mean that a medium-level boss is comfortable with English and it certainly does not mean that the foreigner gets hired. Especially if there is a Finn available with perfect Finnish AND English skills.
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All these could be true, however, there are plenty of foreigns work here, including me, no Finnish at all. I am here over ten years and don't feed any discomfort with language.interleukin wrote:Even if some high-up boss has decided that on paper, the official language of a company is English, it does not mean that the people actually working there will care. They will keep speaking in Finnish in meetings unless there is a foreigner present, the coffee breaks will be in Finnish. The non-Finnish speaker will be a novelty thing and accepted as such if he/she is highly qualified at what he/she does. That does not mean that a medium-level boss is comfortable with English and it certainly does not mean that the foreigner gets hired. Especially if there is a Finn available with perfect Finnish AND English skills.