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Iโ€™d like to join you guys on your side of the pond, but i need to look for an in. Im willing to figure out the legalities, etc, but first and foremost Iโ€™d need a job. Do you guys have any suggestions for job boards to use that focus on EU countries? Specific focus in the technical field is a plus.

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[โ€“] Tehdastehdas@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Side note,
What's the point of having tens of mediocre job boards per Europe, when one EU-made good one would maximise network effect? Why has EURES not crushed Linkedin? What are they even trying to do?

[โ€“] pirat@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

According to their own description,

The Hub is a recruitment platform for Nordic startups that offers career opportunities for global talents.

https://thehub.io/

[โ€“] Babalugats@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Xing is a German owned site, and a Linkedin alternative

https://www.xing.com/

[โ€“] snuggledick@lemm.ee 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'd recommend picking a country first and checking job boards specifically for that country as each has their own preferred job websites and in my experience many/most companies usually don't bother posting job ads on international sites.

[โ€“] ramble81@lemm.ee 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Have any suggestions for specific countries? If you know any Iโ€™m all ears. I think itโ€™s a matter of not knowing/trusting where to start.

[โ€“] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Any thoughts on which european language you'd prefer to learn?

If you are in IT or a software developer you can find a job where you only need English, but trust me, if you plan to stay you'll end up wanting to learn the local language.

Depending on the choice of language we can give some suggestions!

Edit: I know and understand that you'd prefer a single or couple of links, but it's true that country specific career websites are much better than international ones. I have personally relocated inside EU and the international job post websites were useless.

[โ€“] ramble81@lemm.ee 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Estonia, Latvia, Spain or Portugal are ones Iโ€™ve been interested in

[โ€“] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Nice choices! I actually have a link saved up from few years ago when I was considering moving to estonia that might have jobs for you:

https://workinestonia.com/

Sadly I can't help with the other countries you listed, but hope someone else pitches in!

[โ€“] ramble81@lemm.ee 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[โ€“] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago

No problem! Hope you find a job soon!

[โ€“] Blaze@feddit.nl 9 points 3 days ago

I've seen some interesting postings on https://www.welcometothejungle.com/en/jobs

They're French but have jobs for all of Europe (as well as other locations)

[โ€“] BottleCaptain@lemmy.pt 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Euraxess or something like that. I think it's mostly positions at universities or institutes and less companies, but I might be wrong.

[โ€“] trolske@feddit.org 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Euraxes for positions in academia, EURES for other jobs

In Norway we have finn which is privately owned and arbeidsplassen which isn't. This is primarily for jobs in Norway though.

[โ€“] Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago
[โ€“] Obi@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Surprised no one mentioned LinkedIn yet? A lot of companies use it these days, across multiple countries.

Edit: sorry I didn't see which community this was in, obviously LinkedIn is disqualified due to being an American company!

[โ€“] ramble81@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

Iโ€™m willing to bend a bit on this one to gtfo

[โ€“] paranoia@feddit.dk 1 points 2 days ago

What is "the technical field"? What's your qualification? You probably will not get a working visa without one

[โ€“] Wanpieserino@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

The good thing is that the EU has a lot of different governments. Some will be more open to give out work visas.

Portugal seems to be an easy one to get into.

From a quick search, Portugal offers a job seeker visa of 120 days, which can be extended by another 60 days.

Once you have Schengen D visa, you can go anywhere in the EU.

Most of our immigrants come through family reunification or refugee status.

work visa might be more complicated because you don't have someone in the country paying for your cost of living (or taxes doing it in case of being a refugee, atleast in theory, there's plenty of homeless people in Brussels).

i'm probably being overly cautious, good luck researching the subject.