Thursday, July 28, 2011

Cleaners jobs in Uppsala

Solekens Home Service Ltd, working with household services, and now needs to boost up the team with another employee. We are looking for someone who is honest and attentive to customers' requirements. You should be able to make their own decisions and work independently and in groups. Access to driver's license is required, and preferably access to your own car. We need extra reinforcement in the form of an hourly position with a fairly regular days / times. You will be working at least 5 hours the days you work. As the need is today the service work between 2-5 days per / week. The work may be developed into a permanent position. The service will be appointed in mid / late August. The working hours are during the day and no bank holidays or weekends. Please submit your application, only via email, due to holidays. Licence-B

Duration / Working Hours
Until further notice
Part-time
Fixed salary
Applications Deadline: 2011-08-30
Set reference: Cleaner extra
We accept application by e-mail: solekens@telia.com

Address
SOLEKENS Home Service Ltd
Ullfors Street 13 75228 Uppsala
Tel: 070-6786880
E-mail: solekens@telia.com
Website : www. telia.com

Thursday, July 21, 2011

Cleaners job in Sweden

Job Detail:
We are Seeking a cleaner for offices and staff areas, a few hours / week.
Working hours and working day by appointment. Duration / Working Hours
Part-time, Fixed salary
We accept application by e-mail: krister.svensson@vgt.nu
Last Date: 2011-07-28

Postal address
WEST GÖTALAND TRANSPORT AB
Slöjdgatan 8 35246 Växjö
Phone: 0470-24390
E-mail: krister.svensson @ vgt.nu

Truck Driver in Sweden - Uniflex Sweden AB


Uniflex is a registered staffing agency that works with the hiring, recruitment and reassignment of staff in professional areas of industry, warehousing, construction, electricity, office, restaurant and shop. Uniflex is listed on OMX Stockholm, Small Cap, and in Sweden, Norway, Finland and the UK. Uniflex is a member of Almega Recruitment companies and have collective bargaining agreements with LO and the Union.
Job Description:
We are looking for 4 pieces of truck drivers with experience of the counterweight (B1). Tasks will include consist of order picking, loading and unloading of trucks. One requirement is that you have at least 2års experience of counterweight. We prefer that you also have experience of terminal work. One of the services is night work with a client who is located south of the city, because it might be good that you have a driving license and access to own car. Personal qualities As a person you should be willing to work, initiative and ambitious.Furthermore, you should have easy to follow instructions, be flexible, positive and not afraid to take in and keep a high tempo as you work. Important to remember is that you will represent Uniflex out in the workplace and related to understand the importance of manage your work exemplary. Services will be appointed immediately. 
Send your application to: lager@uniflex.se
Applications
Deadline: 2011-07-31
Enter the reference: 1630
We do not accept applications by email.

Contact
Uniflex Sweden AB
Postal address
Uniflex Sweden AB Arenavägen 57 12107 Stockholm Globe Arena
Telephone and Internet

Monday, July 18, 2011

Swedish language skills no prerequisite for a job

While Swedish classes for immigrants are all well and good, the best way to acquire Swedish fluency and boost integration is to encourage immigrants to enter the labour market as soon as possible, argues linguist Sandra Ljung.


The notion that one must first of all acquire fluent Swedish to be able to work is a barrier to integration. Language development and work has to occur in tandem.


The government has touted the ambition to improve SFI classes (Swedish for Immigrants). This is a sound ambition. However, that both illiterate and university-educated immigrants sit together in the same class room and receive Swedish language training, can hardly be regarded as a good education.


Sure it is important to learn Swedish if one is considering building a future in Sweden. But is it important to learn Swedish first? That is to say, before the integration process can commence? Judging by the statements from most political parties in recent years, the answer is yes. Such a resounding yes, that any questioning of it would be regarded as nigh on provocative.


Sure, it can, purely intuitively, appear to be a successful model to suggest that integration is something which occurs gradually. First you need to learn the language, then look for a job, get a job, and then be considered an integrated citizen. The problem is that the model doesn’t work in reality. Those advocating it work on premises which are totally unrealistic, such as, for example, that you can learn a language in classroom, as an adult. You can’t.


The acquisition of a language works best through meetings and conversations with those who speak the foreign language as a mother tongue. This is something everybody knows... in reality.


How many people have learned French for several years in school and still can’t do much more than order a restaurant meal? It is however shown that a year as a student or an au pair in, for example a French family, works wonders for language abilities. Here we are talking about young people who already have an advantage when it comes to learning a foreign language. A 35-year-old is already faced with significant disadvantages.


Work is the best path to integration. Aside from the income and the boost to self-confidence, a job also provides the best possibility to learn the new language. Many people argue that there are professions where strong Swedish is necessary, and that is certainly the case. The example of the doctor is a commonly cited one in this context, but it is far from all immigrants who fit this professional category.


It has become accepted practice to require fluent Swedish regardless of professional affiliation, and to exclude people from the labour market when this can’t be proven. However, communication skills are not acquired through speech alone. It also requires the willingness to listen as well - listen to those who are trying to make themselves understood in broken Swedish.


In a report by Sveriges Radio’s Studio Ett programme in April, we were introduced to two Iraqi men - Ali and Taha - who both emigrated to Sweden in 2006. Taha had done exactly “as he was supposed to do”, i.e. pursued an SFI course and then applied for work, as well as move to a smaller town, but was still without a job five years later, despite the fact that he wanted to work.


Ali had however refused to attend SFI, refused to live on benefits, and insisted on living in Stockholm. It turned out that way as well. Ali never took benefits, has been working for several years, and runs his own convenience store in Östermalm.


The report presented a thought-provoking and touching portrait of two people who had chosen to follow two completely different routes towards establishing themselves in their adopted country. While it provides no simple solutions, and dictates no particular agenda, one thing is clear - SFI has not been the integration elixir for either of the men, and neither for their wives.


Taha's Swedish would appear to be better than Ali’s at this point in time, but Ali’s prospects of improving his Swedish in the future are likely to be greater than Taha’s, as Ali has a job and comes into contact with Swedes on a daily basis, while Taha is stuck in a system where SFI courses are intertwined with short apprenticeships and what he describes as “ridiculous talking shop courses”, where they cut out pictures and make collages about Sweden.


The years pass and one can’t help but wonder how much better Taha’s Swedish and job prospects can become while stuck in permanent alienation?


A shift in attitudes towards immigrant language abilities can’t be achieved by legislation and directives alone. They are however required if integration is to occur, for real.


“Talk is silver, silence is golden” is a phrase uttered from time to time in our country, but it sounds a little dated and peculiar. The expression should instead be “talk is silver, to listen is golden”. Then perhaps a mentality may develop where work and language acquisition occurred simultaneously.


This article was originally published in Swedish on the Newsmill opinion website.


External link: Original article on Newsmill.se (in Swedish)