Maritime Industry Vacuumed For Expertise

Higher wages and better rotation schemes in the oil industry enable seafarers seek to escape from the maritime industry. At the same time educates only half the skills they will need until 2020. The maritime industry in Norway will require all 10,000 Norwegian seamen up to the year 2020, according to a new research report from Fafo. At the same time there will be trained under 5000 students in maritime subjects, and a high percentage of these...

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More Searches For Jobs Without Education Requirements

The growing rift for positions that do not require higher education will continue to increase until 2030. To get a job in "checkout at the supermarket," or in occupations where there is no requirement to higher education becomes increasingly difficult, and the struggle for such jobs has barely begun. Aftenposten recently talked, got a supermarket shop at Majorstua in Oslo into a total of 585 applications for a vacancy as a store employee....

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Which Person Type Are You?

Some want control and quick results, others will feel that they are participating. Some seek perfection, while others want everybody to be friends. Which of these types of person do you feel most left in? What characterizes you as a person? What are your best and worst sides? And what motivated you of? All these are factors that point back to the person type you are. And thus what suits to study - and work with. How do you work? If you would...

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How To Get The Confidence That Graduate Job Search

What can you apply for? Who can you turn to? And what can you really contribute? Career Adviser Mette Manus tells how to proceed to apply for a job as a graduate. When you have just graduated and have not much to show for it on your resume, it is important that you can sell yourself. Bring out what you've done next to studies, such as offices and volunteering. Show that you have the capacity to more than studying, says Mette Manus, career counselor...

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The Quest For The Perfect Employer

You are finally graduating and about to step over the threshold and take the first step into the career. But where should you start? There you have used one, three, maybe six years to prepare for this, and it certainly is not time to relax yet. When choosing your first employer after graduation, you should of course ensure that the work you get is relevant to what you have studied and what you will spend the rest of your career to. But the first...

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