Sweden is looking for workers: it also hires foreigners who don't know the language

You don't speak Swedish but would like to go to live and work in Sweden? No problem, starting today you can. Yes, because the Scandinavian country has too many job offers and too few job requests and to face the risk of a drop in production, local companies have decided to drastically lower the minimum level of language knowledge required.

In Sweden in recent years there has been an economic boom and companies in the manufacturing and excellence sector lack workers. Too much demand for jobs, too few Swedes. And here, therefore, that large companies have to rely on immigrants willy-nilly, often without being able to claim sufficient linguistic knowledge. There are many foreign workers who are hired without knowing Swedish, or who have just started studying it and who have a level no higher than the first elementary classes.

“In fact, it was the company management that came to meet us. They lowered internal standards of proficiency in the local language. And then we often help each other by drawing drawings. Sometimes it is difficult at first, but the language of drawings is born and develops on the assembly line every day, according to production needs, so we end up understanding each other more and more,” Paul Ntambi, a young emigrated from Uganda working for Scania.

"For some time now, the demand for work on our part has grown so much that Randstad (the company that is the main employment agency) only manages sometimes to offer us workers who speak Swedish fluently" says Helena Segerberg instead- Bystrom, responsible for Scania's assembly line. And here, therefore, that the required language levels have been lowered. The result? About 89 new jobs created and assigned to foreigners. And for the language? At the beginning, as mentioned, we get on with gestures and drawings, but the company policy is that the new employee with little knowledge of Swedish is supported by at least one native worker, so he learns the language faster.