The Netherlands is a country of choice for many professionals, for obvious reasons, high quality of life, work-life balance, and a high level of English language proficiency. Although the Dutch language is the primary language in the Netherlands, you find out that a high percentage of Dutch citizens speak good English.
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Just as in other developed countries. There is also a labour shortage in the Netherlands. Research conducted last year from one of the institutes revealed that in Amsterdam alone, there are, there were over 60,000 vacancies, out of which there were only 25,000 personnel to fill those positions, meaning that about 35,000 still were left, on the field. This creates opportunities for professionals from outside of the Netherlands and even outside of the EU to gain employment in order to fill this labour gap.
ENGLISH JOB OPPORTUNITIES IN NETHERLANDS
So in this video, we’re looking at English job opportunities in one of the biggest e-commerce companies in the Netherlands. And the company under consideration is
- Bol.com. The bol.com is a company that is just like Amazon. Many vendors list their goods for sale, and they are serving as many as 13 million customers currently. They are very huge here in the Netherlands and in Belgium.
So let’s go ahead now to bol.com job portal to see available job opportunities. So here we are under the bold point com carriers portal. You can clearly see here that they are boldly advertising road to relocate everything you need to know about your journey to the Netherlands. So when you see a company advertising boldly like this on their website, this goes to tell you that they are actively hiring foreigners as part of their workforce. And they have structures to support you with the visa and your relocation process. And you can see here, they help you make the transition from wherever you are coming from to the Netherlands Easy. You have a recruiter, there is an expert management group to help you arrange your move. So let’s have a look at the available vacancies. Out of 12 vacancies currently available. You can see quite a number of them have English.
These will tell you clearly that you don’t, you are not required to have a command of the Dutch language to apply for these jobs. The other ones that do not mention English do not also preclude you from applying for these jobs, and you can apply for any of these jobs. So where they specifically mention English, it means that they expect you to have a good command of English if you want to apply for these jobs. And it is impressive to see that the qualification for most of the jobs is Bachelor’s, or Master’s, Here experiences are minimal, one to four years. This is a more senior role, with four to seven years of experience. So you can hop onto this website now and check one of these job opportunities, to see where you qualify.
As we can see here, most of them are IT-based jobs. This is analytics engineer, data analyst, IT security engineer, Python software engineer, full-stack engineer, advertising, platform interactions, data engineer, senior software engineer, performance test engineer, ethical hacker engineer, ethical hacker. So, so they are mostly IT based. And if you don’t have any of the skills relevant here, it might also be a pointer for you to consider taking some certifications that will qualify you for some of these roles in the future. Let’s look at one of the positions and see what is involved, what you’ll do as a data analyst, you will join a group of data professionals in bol.com advertising analytics team that aims to make people, programs and products in the advertising organization more performance through data. This job is for the versatile analyst, one that is equally comfortable talking to data as to stakeholders, your days vary, but at the core you’ll use sql, Python, Tableau to provide metrics analysis and predictions that help the business and advertisers make better decisions.
So here you can see the tools that you require. So if you have experience in any of these tools, then you know what are looking for. But very important to note here that the English language is the language of operation for working in this role. So that’s it. Bol.com is one of the companies that is actively hiring from overseas with relocation support and assistance available. Don’t delay, hop onto their website now, apply for these jobs and good luck with it.
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