Agenda
- Presentation of the handbook The Insider’s Guide to Recruiting International talent - Linköping Science Park presents the handbook, which is aimed at employers and will provide concrete advice, insights and practical tools for recruiting and retaining international talent.
Anna Broeders, Linköping Science Park. - Programme to help accompanying persons with international skills enter the Swedish labor market - Business Region Göteborg and the West Sweden Chamber of Commerce have developed and are testing a programme to help accompanying persons with international skills enter the Swedish labor market. The project has also mapped the challenges accompanying persons face when moving to Sweden in order to increase employers' knowledge of the target group and their needs. Lovisa Bohlin, Business Region Göteborg and preliminary Niklas Delersjö, West Sweden Chamber of Commerce.
Moderator: Anna Manhem-Laurin, Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Development
This is the eighth webinar in the webinar series that the Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth is arranging within the framework of the government assignment Work in Sweden. The first part of the webinar, with these presentations, will be recorded and can be viewed afterwards. At the end of the webinar, the recording will end and there will be an opportunity to ask questions. The Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth will continue the webinar series during the autumn, at approximately one-month intervals, on current issues and themes related to our continued work with Work in Sweden.
The webinar is aimed at those of you who work with issues that are in various ways related to attracting and retaining international expertise.
About the assignment Work in Sweden
Ten authorities have been tasked with attracting, establishing and retaining highly qualified international expertise and other foreign labour that is important for Sweden's competitiveness. The Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth is the coordinator for the task, which is shared by the Swedish Employment Service, Business Sweden, the Swedish Social Insurance Agency, the Swedish Migration Agency, Statistiska Centralbyrån, the Swedish Tax Agency, the State Service Center, the Swedish Institute, the Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth, the Swedish Council for Universities and the Swedish Agency for innovation system.