Cultural differences and language barriers: The truth about how to find a job in Denmark as a foreigner - Chrysa in Denmark Part 2

Today, my guest Chrysa is sharing her journey moving from Greece to Denmark. She uncovers the truth about finding a job as a foreigner and why she thinks it's important to leave your home base to move abroad.

Listen to this episode if you want to learn:

• How to increase your chances of finding a job in Denmark
• How to receive unemployment money in Denmark
• How the Danish work culture differs from other cultures
• How to overcome cultural barriers with the Danes
• Why it's so important to move abroad 

These are my favorite quotes of the episode:

• “I decided to leave everything behind. I settled a good life, you know, with everything actually and come here. And again, my family was like, ‘Are you crazy? You’re in a well-paid job, you have your friends, you have your boyfriend, what are you doing?’ But I was like my happiness is above all. So; I just left and came here.” 
• “It was a struggle for me to meet new people because all the people in my class were only online. And Danes are not that open and extroverted as Greeks. Moving in a different culture with people I never met, because I never met someone from Denmark before, was very difficult for me to start meeting people. I remember we have a group from my Masters. I posted there, ‘Who would like to grab a coffee?’. There are 150 people in the group. No one replied.” 
• “I believe that the most important thing is not only applications, it's about getting yourself out of the door and try to meet the people, the companies, and to get to know what you want. The better way to do it is to get to know the others, too. So, I went to different events to try to understand the business world here, and that’s how I came across robotics.” 
• “I’ve seen something that in Greece is not a thing that much. After 4 o’clock or 3.30 you just go home, and you’re with your family and your kids and your employer doesn’t bother you at all. This is something that I saw in my previous employer as well. This is not something that is only in this company. It's in all the Danish companies. There is work-life balance. People respect you, and they don’t feel like they own you. … No matter what is your age. If you have an opinion, and you have arguments about this opinion, they actually let you express it, and they listen to you.” 
• ”Being an international, I can tell you: it's not everything easy. It’s very difficult. I’ve been rejected from jobs because I don’t fit culturally into the team as the other person that they interviewed. Because I don’t speak Danish fluently. Because someone has more experience than I do.” 
• “Yes, because you meet new people and new mindsets and you’re learning. And I think this is the thing: Learning. Because when you’re in one country forever, you’re in your comfort zone. What is the point, if it’s not a challenge, then what is the point? We are not meant to be in our comfort zone as humans, I think.” 
• “I think I learned to be more resilient and being proactive and persistent on what I want. Not listening to what other people are saying. I try to teach this to myself, because I am coming from a culture where it’s a lot about what the others are going to say. Mainly because of the religion. But I taught myself it doesn’t matter what the others are saying because they are not living your life. And also, everything is possible.”

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