1. Sweden
Therese Alm
Emma Gullström
Emma Åsard

2. Work in Sweden How the labor market in Sweden is organized
Salary every month (12 months per year)
Normal working day is 8 hours
Vaccation at least 25 days

3. Types of work There are many different types of work in Sweden.
60 % of the populaton is woking with service

4. The private and public sektor
Most of the population work in the private sector
The workers in the private sector has increased a lot

5. What field of work would you like to get into?

6. In your choise, what are your motiviations?

7. Would you rather be employed or self-employed?

8. How can your school help you to be sucessful in your future life?

9. Qualities of a successful entrepreneur
Creativity
Passion
Motivation
Social
Independent
Responsible
Hardworking
Risktaking
Confident
Good listener
Good leadership
Brave

10. Unemployment in Sweden
Unemployed – a person who doesn’t have a paid job
7,4%, persons, of the inhabitants in Sweden
Included – adults younger than 65, people over 65 who still want to work and students that are applying for job.

11. Get people back to work
Arbetsförmedlingen are helping unemployed people
Call themselfes ”matchmakers”
They have contact with the companies to hear if they need new employees
Unemployed people are coming to them and will hopefully get a job

12. Financial support
Working and paying fee to the Union – 80% of your salary when you get unemployed.
After 1 year – money from the state.
The money comes from taxes. Employed pay 30% of their salary in tax.
Sometimes people use this system to get more money for themselves, for example they don’t pay the tax.

13. Employment Possible disadvantages
To be employed at a company gives you a lot of advantages.
Eg; security like insurance, salary, vacation, maternity leave etc.
Sometimes benefits like health programs, life-pensions saving programs etc are applicable
The benefits of an employment varies a lot between counties.
Sweden is known for having very good agreements
Possible disadvantages
Can not always decide about working hours, vacations etc
Freedom to choose where to work

14. Self-employment
The key advantages of running your own business are for example:
the freedom of choosing where and when to work
the freedom to set the agenda, business plan and work forward
if you are successful you can keep big parts of the profit and decide about bonuses etc
the power of decision making
many good things are deductible
Common disadvantages of running your own business:
You need to have a broad knowledge within several areas
You actually need to bring in the money to be able to pay for all costs/expenses
Sometimes, when times are bad, you might not be able to pick out a salary.
maybe you can not afford life-pension saving programs, insurances and other health-benefits.

15. How to start a company in Sweden
Compared to other countries, it’s easy to start a company in Sweden
There are different types of companies, the most common one is: “The limited Company”
You’ll need a share/ start capital of SEK
You register the company at “Bolagsverket”, or you can buy the company from “the shelf” at a company broker (this takes only like 20 minutes)
Swedish Jobs and Society Foundation – an entreprise agency that offer advice on how to start a company for free (e.g business-, marketing plans etc)

16. Amazing Sweden

17. My Future
My personal aim is to at least once run my own business in the future within an area I love and have passion for.
But I realise that I still have a lot to learn from working as an employee within different kinds of companies.
For example I would like to get the experience from working as an employee abroad. Learning about different cultures etc.