Hello! i am 27M from South Asia, studied and now working for more than a year in Sweden.
I was fortunate to get into one of their most ‘international’ company so language in work is not an issue however i completely understand why it can be in social life.
For me, I am very introverted with casual friendship and can only do activity based (lets say sports or movies) hangouts. So Sweden has been very cool for me as I dont seek out warmth and friendship outside.
Although I am fine working and contributing in Sweden for now, I am definitely not tied down here and nor you should feel the same way. I am planning to get some good experience in me and then try to move.
When its time I may consider moving to UK/USA or Canada. I think there is enough discussions about the pros/cons of these countries but my POV is only from getting good jobs- UK will be easier to transit to being in Europe as the companies there will find it easy to recognize skills and degrees from Sweden. Canada can be a direct route of immigration with PR from day 1 through their generous skilled migrant program. USA on the other hand will be super tough for an early professional like us in my head. Reason is they have abundance of supply of internal graduates who work for upto 3 years without having a sponsored work permit. It also allows companies to judge the new grads before investing in them with H1B visa. I believe it will be a bit harder to get a direct access to USA job market ad of now. But definitely few years down the road I will be open to try it.
Hello! i am 27M from South Asia, studied and now working for more than a year in Sweden.
I was fortunate to get into one of their most ‘international’ company so language in work is not an issue however i completely understand why it can be in social life.
For me, I am very introverted with casual friendship and can only do activity based (lets say sports or movies) hangouts. So Sweden has been very cool for me as I dont seek out warmth and friendship outside.
Although I am fine working and contributing in Sweden for now, I am definitely not tied down here and nor you should feel the same way. I am planning to get some good experience in me and then try to move.
When its time I may consider moving to UK/USA or Canada. I think there is enough discussions about the pros/cons of these countries but my POV is only from getting good jobs- UK will be easier to transit to being in Europe as the companies there will find it easy to recognize skills and degrees from Sweden. Canada can be a direct route of immigration with PR from day 1 through their generous skilled migrant program. USA on the other hand will be super tough for an early professional like us in my head. Reason is they have abundance of supply of internal graduates who work for upto 3 years without having a sponsored work permit. It also allows companies to judge the new grads before investing in them with H1B visa. I believe it will be a bit harder to get a direct access to USA job market ad of now. But definitely few years down the road I will be open to try it.