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Originally Posted by nasu
Im a canadian and have been living in Finland for 2 months now am moving back to Canada in the summer as I cant get a job here.
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Sorry to hear about your experience with not finding a job. Two months is, for sure, too short a period for finding a job especially if you don't speak Finnish. I can tell it from our own experience.
I could say that my dear hubby (from the UK) got his first job and practically only accidentally. He is a trained professional with years of work experience but the skills in Finnish were more or less nothing.
He/we sent some hundreds of applications, got a few replies and the job he got was almost like an accident. Well it turned out to be one which they couldn't get any Finns to do. He did that for only a few months cause it was pure exploitation
. After that he got his second job (no Finnish necessary) and stayed in that until that company moved its' business to even less paying place, Tallinn. After that he looked for a job for over a year and finally got one and this has really prooved out to be a good one.
To find a job fast you need either good connections/friends and making use of them or you need to be able to speak at least some Finnish. Language is, unfortunately, the key to so many things in this country and it cannot be overemphasized!