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Hi Stacey,

Welcome to °µÍø½ûÇø!

You may put an advert in the jobs in Oslo section.

Best of luck,
Christine

Hey!

The type of job you are looking for is not easy to get while you aren't in the country. I would advise being on the ground in Oslo and go around bars, restaurants and shops to find the job you are looking for. More than 70% of the assignments in restaurants and retail never get advertised anywhere.

StaceySouma; That is very good

I think you should try to do active searches on Nav and Finn , and type in English words such as "English-speaking" "Callcenter" etc and hope that English adds appear because otherwise almost all job adds are in Norwegian as you would have found out by now.

Would they perhaps require someone like you to work for a few hours a week at the embassy? Or perhaps in a Visit Britain tourism role?

Hey, ja, I've been running similar searches, and the Norwegian translations too!

I'd happily do some work at the embassy, or the Britain role as you mentioned, and I'd even do some voluntary work to start with, to show my willingness and desire for the new start!

I think my next step is enrolling in Norwegian classes (I'll be starting University in August.), I just feel as if there's only so much I can learn from the same textbooks. When I live there, I want to fully integrate and immerse myself, and live as one of them!

So if anyone can point me in the right direction of some recommended classes/teachers, that would be appreciated!

Takk

It is nice to see your eagerness to settle in Norway - God Bless!

But there is no need to fully integrate and lose your own character or cultural backround

You will find immigrants worldwide will come with a suitcase full of their own culture, but yes gradually they will add more and more from the local culture to the suitcase - The British do not live identically to an Aboriginal Australian in Australia, an Iraqi does not live identical to a Norwegian in Norway, and a Norwegian does not live identical to an Indian when he settles in America - there is plenty of place for all of us in this world

When you study at university, I think you can join free Norwegian classes in summer school or something. But yes it is difficult to get a job, even part-time, so just keep searching on the websites, but it is likely that you will not have one in place before you arrive because if it's just a general job then they would like to invite you for interviews etc, or else they will just find locals.

There is also "Toplanguagejobs" I think it is called. When you are in Norway you can also try to approach shops directly to hear if they have any vacancies. Some of the immigrant-owned shops might be willing to hire you even if you don't speak Norwegian or only little Norwegian, they might require a helper.

Nothing is easy!

StaceySouma wrote:

Hey, ja, I've been running similar searches, and the Norwegian translations too!

I'd happily do some work at the embassy, or the Britain role as you mentioned, and I'd even do some voluntary work to start with, to show my willingness and desire for the new start!

I think my next step is enrolling in Norwegian classes (I'll be starting University in August.), I just feel as if there's only so much I can learn from the same textbooks. When I live there, I want to fully integrate and immerse myself, and live as one of them!

So if anyone can point me in the right direction of some recommended classes/teachers, that would be appreciated!

Takk