Antti

I work with many multilingual candidates each day and a recurring issue I face is that some really aren’t 100% ready to go abroad. With this in mind, I’ve compiled a number of factors you will need to address before making the move to go abroad. If you think about it, many companies won’t pay you your first day and if you are being paid on a monthly basis, you are ...

As a recruiter, I come across an average of 100 CV’s per day. Sometimes I see the most amazing CV’s of intricate design and beautiful layouts. One more recently had flowers blooming from the corner of the page that even stopped my colleagues in their tracks as they walked past my desk. Other times I may receive an email with ‘’I need Job, you help?’’ Of course, som...

When you’re hunting down a new language job (whether it be local or abroad) you are more likely going to be dealing with recruitment agencies. Depending on how many jobs you apply for, you could be talking to quite a few recruiters and this can become frustrating. We totally understand, when we call a candidate after they applied for a job, we are no stranger to fo...

Remember the Calimero Cartoons from back in the day? ‘’They are big and we are small, and that’s not fair’’ Sometimes our clients feel like that. Not all of our clients, but perhaps the smaller startup indigenous companies who have decided to begin that crucial step to grow across borders. We understand this of course. Every company was a small startup once upon a ...

It’s the official start of Summer! At least in Scandinavia, it is. I never really noticed it before but after moving to work abroad, I realised how odd we Scandinavians can be! I mean, we dance around a pole and sing about frogs, we set our old and useless wooden possessions aflame and sometimes even add paper/wooden witches to the pyre. Not to mention, the game th...

A recruiter speaks with thousands of people every month. Those committed to delivering an excellent service to both their clients and candidates, build relationships every day. In my opinion, this is the very essence of our job as recruiters. Unfortunately, not every candidate see’s us in this light and this is where we hit a dead end sometimes. The following scena...

As the working world grow more and more internationally minded, language jobs increase too. The issue many in the multilingual recruitment world are having now is that those applying for these language jobs may not speak the language at the required level for their client. When we post a language job online, we may title the job as: ‘’German Lead Generation Agent -...

Looking for a multilingual job requires a lot of energy, commitment and availability. Many have been experimenting with the stress and dedication it takes to find ‘’the job’’. With that in mind, looking for a job abroad means that there is no room for Improvisation. When the time has come to start looking & applying for a job abroad - you will need to take the foll...

There are numerous benefits to working abroad. In this blog, I will give you my very own reasons why, after 1.5 years, I haven’t decided to go back to the Netherlands. The travel feeling, but with career opportunities. After a year of working and travelling in Australia, I arrived back in the Netherlands in October of 2017. It was great to see all my friends and fa...