How long did it take you to find a job in Finland?

Post by **neil** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 11:07 pm

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Jussi · Post by **Jussi** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 11:15 pm

0-3 months after I started looking...not when I arrived

enk · Post by **enk** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 1:30 am

Same as Jussi. Mind you, I was studying full-time the first 1,5 years
I was here, so that was after that.

-enk

Jussi · Post by **Jussi** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 8:06 am

Yeah, I was studying too, - well I still am, but I have a summer job and from that an ongoing part time job through the winter.

sinikettu · Post by **sinikettu** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 9:18 am

Did not move here until I had found work..coming up to my 12th year.

enk · Post by **enk** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 11:38 am

Jussi wrote:Yeah, I was studying too, - well I still am, but I have a summer job and from that an ongoing part time job through the winter.

Heh, well I came during the worst of the recession, so I gave
up rather quickly when Hervanta Spar decided I needed an 18-month
degree in order to be able to work their cash register

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Apparently job experience was no good. So, I collected bottles and returned them and paid my rent that way. I walked almost everywhere and ate potatoes, eggs and frozen veggies forever *yök*. And I learned
to pick stuff from the forest without croaking

-enk

sinikala · Post by **sinikala** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 11:56 am

0 months.

Came here to do research, worked for 2 years in TKK then moved to industry.

Tapani · Post by **Tapani** » Thu Jul 13, 2006 9:55 am

0 months, was offered a job before I moved here

Murithi · Post by **Murithi** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 6:38 pm

After graduating....1 year. Cleaning jobs are easier to find, but looking for something you have studied for...it seems to take a life time.

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