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The immigration policy regarding work permits granted to people who are from non-EU countries in any country in the EU all have in common that the job has to be advertised on a EU site so that EU citizens get a first crack at it - there are 508 million inhabitants in the EU so that should be plenty of people to fill any position. It's not just a Swedish thing. The money exchange made a mistake by not advertising the job on the arbetsförmedlingen job board.
Unfortunatly most do not want to advertise on the arbetsförmedlingen job board, because people who are eligible for unemployment benefits must seek X jobs a month, so they seek jobs that they are not qualified for (or overqualified for). Putting an ad up on arbetsförmedlingen means you'll get hundreds of useless applications, and you might not find a suitable employee. So, increasingly people use Linkedin and other job boards instead - because Linkedin is increasingly working as a job board.
Except when they apply to get a work permits for a non-EU citizen, they break the law. Moral of the story: Linkedin is not a job board in the eyes of the EU.
Considering this number is celebrating that Sweden 'abolished censorship', as they state in the launch film, yes, this is indeed the height of irony and they have failed to spot it.
Well, the immigration rules, despite how varied they may seem around the world, usually differ between "tourist", "student" and "work permit" visa/permanent residency, and they all have in common that there's tons of forms to fill in. Syed Latif had a student visa, and thus residency, but failed to secure his post graduation job in the EU via the EU approved job search sites, Arbetsförmedligen & EURES. Both his employer, and Syed fill in forms to apply for the work permit.
When I hire people from outside of the EU, I have to advertise this job on EURES so that people in the EU and Switzerland see it, as part of the process to apply for a work permit for someone. On the actual form that an employer has to file in order to hire a non-EU citizen, there's a box to check regarding asking: "Has the job been advertised in EU/EES and Switzerland?" where you can check "yes" and then specify the ads ID number, a number it would have if it was advertised on arbetsförmedlingen's & EURES website. I'm guessing this is where the Linkedin connection was first seen.
> but if you have a friend and you are getting hired without an add does not matter
Well, if you are already a citizen of the country where your friend is giving you a job... or already have a work permit, then it would not matter obviously. In the EU there is a vast pool of potential employees to choose from as it encompasses 28 member countries + Switzerland!
My interest in this story lies more in the tarnished brand of Linkedin than the minutia of work and residency permits. I've also lived and worked in too many countries (pre-EU as well) to be naive about the filings of permits to get the correct visas.
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