It depends a lot on what you can do. And what you can do better than a Dane. The Danish person knows the language, the Danish person knows the culture, the Danish person knows not to bring Brie cheese to the Friday shared breakfast.
Sliced, medium-sharp Riberhus Danbo cheese. Sometimes I would try to bring a different cheese and my Danish colleagues would smile and nod like they do when a foreigner has done something silly β¦ and then not eat my cheese. Back to my original point β to overcome this, you have to show what you can do better than your Danish rivals. Higher education is in some cases free here, and the government even gives you a stipend to live on while you learn.
Otherwise, I suggest you put all your effort into Danish classes at the start, and then get a job that will force you to speak Danish all day, every day. I often recommend working as an assistant in a Danish day care center. And quite frankly, the kids speak very simple Danish, and you speak very simple Danish. Just speaking English is not enough When people come from English speaking countries β the US, Britain, Australia β they often ask me if speaking English well is enough to get them a job.
The answer is no, even though there are many companies that have English as their corporate language. But those are prestigious companies β Novo, Lundbeck β places that everybody wants to work. So, you have to have a job skill, plus English, to work there. This is my recommendation: search the job ads on databases like Jobindex. Instead, study the ads to figure out what skills companies are looking for. What skill can they not find? Figure out if you can dress up your cv to highlight some of those skills, or even get take a quick course so you have them.
Ask about them about your industry, ask them where the pain is, where the problems are. Show how you can solve their problems And then, write your job application and your cv, explaining how you and your skills can help them solve exactly the problems that everyone is worried about.
