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How to make your foreign degree count in a Swedish application

A foreign degree can fit the vacancy and still leave a Swedish recruiter guessing what it equals. One document can translate the qualification into familiar terms, but regulated professions need a different route.

By DailySweden20 August 20262 min read
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Your degree can match a Swedish vacancy and still look unfamiliar to the person screening it. If the employer cannot see what it equals, relevant study can disappear behind a foreign title.

DailySweden's Jobs centre lists the Swedish occupation name and education level used in each advert. Those terms can expose a mismatch

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