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Settling in Sweden

Arbetsförmedlingen / arbetsgivaren

Work: from the job centre to the first payslip

Registering as a job-seeker, the Swedish interview, and reading what you were paid.

Step 1, free to read

Register with Arbetsförmedlingen on day one

Arbetsförmedlingen is the public employment service. Registering (skriva in sig) is done online with BankID or at an office, and it is the condition for most support programmes — and for unemployment benefit, which is why the date you register matters. Register on your first day without work rather than after a month of looking; nothing is gained by waiting.

  1. Step 2: A-kassa is not the same thing
  2. Step 3: The application: CV and personligt brev
  3. Step 4: The interview
  4. Step 5: The first payslip

Finish this path with Svenska Plus

  • Arbetsförmedlingen: what registering does, and what it does not do
  • A-kassa is a separate membership you have to join yourself
  • The interview: personligt brev, referenser, and the questions that are actually asked
  • 12 phrases for the job centre and the interview
  • The payslip line by line: bruttolön, preliminärskatt, semesterersättning, OB

12 Swedish phrases · 14 words off the real forms · 4 practice items

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