I came to Sweden in August 2023 and it's been very difficult to get a job here. I have applied to thousands of jobs via different platforms and did a few interviews but got rejected.
I have over 8 years of industry experience in Web Development and am currently on my Masters Program in Software Engineering. Yet, I get a rainfall of rejections. This is tiring and I really don't know what to do anymore, I'm very frustrated already. The language barrier is another big problem.

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I haven’t lived in Sweden itself so there may be something else going on but you kind of answered your own question. I’d hang out with other expats with similar language barriers and figure out how they got jobs, maybe even make an intro for you to get a foot in the door in workplaces that don’t require fluent Swedish. But it sounds like in the long run you’d need to get on board with the language, this is just a short term solution. Otherwise, you’d need to look for remote jobs which are hyper competitive and might not work in a high COL country like Sweden

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