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The Italian Job: Network(ing) Failure at Its Finest

The scene was a cathedral fellowship hall in Bologna, Italy in September last year. My chamber choir was ... LinkedIn profile,Norwegian business culture, Working in Norway Sometimes I really bomb at this networking thing...

Pension in Norway

...retirement pension (AFP) in the private sector Contractual early retirement pension (AFP) in the public sector ... employment terms. In Norway, everyone collects pension benefits in the National Insurance Plan; in addition,...

Highly educated adults are the new trade unionists

...immigrant groups have been taken from Statistics Norway and are based on tax returns where a deduction ... shown. The figures have been obtained for professions in which Tekna members are working, the different groups...

Paying It Forward: A Culture of Sharing in Business

...forward instead of back is not new, but rather has been in circulation for several years. The concept is that ... another individual – in whatever great or small way this may be – by doing it in person. paying it forward...

‘Why didn’t I get the job?’: Our Need for Post-Interview Answers

...interview in Norway. I had answered a newspaper ad posting a teaching job at a newly started school in the ... area. The student body was made up of adults (as in age 19 and over) who were either going back … Find...

Get started with your membership in Tekna

Volunteering Have you started using your membership benefits in Tekna? Here you will find an alphabetical list of ... emails you receive from us on My Profile. You log in with the email address you have registered with us...

This is how you get elected as a Tekna Representative

...members' rights and interests in their working life and play an important role in what is called the "Norwegian ... professional life: Education from Tekna - often called Norway's best education program for mid-level managers...

Older Job Seekers: The Painful Need to Leave Your Past Behind

...search,job seeker,Norway,older job seeker, Working in Norway But what to leave in and what to leave out ... for new work. Case in point and a quick update for unaware readers: The drastic fall in oil prices over...

Lars Olav Grøvik elected as Tekna’s new president

Tekna’s head company representative in Equinor as well as a board member in Tekna Private and the head of Tekna ... and participating in Parliamentary hearings. He has also held other board positions in several volunteer...

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A Few Thoughts on a Foreigner’s Comfort Zone

A couple of weeks ago I sat in the audience listening to a professional speaker give a short motivational ... of our ‘Comfort Zone’. She told us different ways in which we could do this, ranging from the smaller...

Impact at Work: What’s Yours?

Out of the many buzz words currently circling in the working world today, ‘impact’ has to be one of the ... technology changing our lives to individuals changing our thoughts about how we live our lives. One of the dictionary...

How to Break My Language Barrier

...workday in the global workplace, several small and seemingly insignificant events may take place in the life ... intercultural communication,language barrier, Working in Norway Patience and Participation: The Keys to the Communication...

Understanding the Underground: Why Foreign Speakers Sometimes Can’t Stop Speaking

...communication,international workplace, Working in Norway “But do you know what: I am convinced that we ... Dostoyevsky) It doesn’t happen often, but every once in awhile I’m reminded of books I read years ago, or...

The Unspoken Yet Real Reason You Didn’t Get Called For That Job Interview

Job’ by LI Influencer Liz Ryan in which she lists five potential changes in the company at which ‘you’ have ... search,job seeking,LinkedIn profile, Working in Norway I just finished reading an article on LinkedIn...

Employee Wellness in the Norwegian Work Culture

...his wife so much, he almost told her? Working in Norway This old joke brings a smile to many faces, Norwegians ... called intercultural communication. For instance, in 1959 one of ‘int com’s’ founders, American anthropologist...

Business Culture Clash: What’s in a (LinkedIn) photo?

...surprise me. Was running yet another LinkedIn course in Norway last week, and had gotten to the point where I ... culture,Norwegian workplace,working in norway, Working in Norway People’s preferences about what’s professional...

But It’s Not My Fault: Business E-Mail Etiquette When Your Sender Can’t Write Right

...appearing in the otherwise fast-paced, hardened world of modern business. What came up and out in … business ... business e-mails,e-mail etiquette, Working in Norway Yet another interesting aspect of modern communication...

Say What? Foreign Language Anxiety in the Global Workplace

...anxiety,intercultural communication, Working in Norway The only thing worse than not understanding someone ... understood when doing the same. Recently, during the break in one of my evening business communication courses...

– A simple country boy from Sunnmøre

...has also been heavily involved in reorganizing his company, Equinor. In the middle of all this activity ... he’s been doing a top-to-bottom remodel of his house in Bergen. – There’s so much I’d like to do and get...

Photonics enabled by Artificial intelligence, or vice versa?

...opportunities in different industries? IKT-bloggen Increased specialization, knowledge sharing in photonics ... photonics-based solutions in Norwegian industry can have a major impact on Norway's economic growth. NORCE...

Article IKT-bloggen Dec. 10 2021 Streaming

LinkedIn: Tell the Truth (Please), Part Two

...own life and work experience in this one-page stylized format. ‘It’ in this … CV writing skills,English ... workplace,LinkedIn profile,self-awareness, Working in Norway It happened again. Call me an overly critical...

Skype Meetings: You Can’t Run and You Can’t Hide

...group of people working in Norway how to make a high-quality presentation in English after learning my ... perform well in front of a large audience. Or so I thought. When questioned further in an advance e-mail...

Record growth in Tekna

(Statistics Norway). Aktuelt Tekna has had a strong membership growth rate for several years in a row, and ... (Statistics Norway). - This past year was a challenging one for many Tekna members, and many of them lived with...

What Not to Say to a Foreigner

...intercultural communication, Working in Norway Don’t make fun of a co-worker’s accent! In the global workplace, there ... work. Unfortunately, in an attempt at humor, some native speakers occasionally get in these people’s way...