Anders had been watching it happen for years. Friends relocating to Sweden for a relationship, colleagues arriving in Norway after landing a role through a network connection, international students finishing degrees at Uppsala or NTNU and wanting to stay. Skilled, motivated people — but people who hit the same wall, again and again, when they tried to find work on their own.
"They'd go to Indeed, to LinkedIn, maybe to a couple of English-language boards. They'd see a few dozen postings. They'd apply. And they'd wonder why it felt so thin — why a country clearly hiring seemed to have so few jobs they could actually find."
The problem wasn't the job market. Sweden and Norway both have robust, active hiring across technology, engineering, healthcare, research, finance, and more. The problem was where those jobs lived. In both countries, employers are legally or practically required to post vacancies through national employment services — Arbetsförmedlingen in Sweden and NAV in Norway. These systems hold the most complete picture of what's actually available.
But those systems are designed for domestic job seekers. They're in Swedish and Norwegian. The search interfaces assume you know the local geography, the occupational classification codes, and the vocabulary of local job titles. Even the English-language jobs posted there are buried inside a system that doesn't make them easy to surface if you're working in your second or third language.
Meanwhile, the English-language job boards that people coming from the US, UK, Australia, or anywhere else would naturally turn to — Indeed, Glassdoor, LinkedIn — show a fraction of what's posted. Not because employers are hiding; simply because the data isn't there. Those platforms aren't connected to the national employment databases the way local systems are. What looks like a thin market is actually a visibility problem.
in Arbetsförmedlingen at any time
via NAV's database
English-language job boards
So Anders built NordicJobs.net. The concept is simple: connect directly to the official national APIs, pull every active listing, filter for the ones where English is the working language or a stated requirement, and present them cleanly to an audience that knows they want to work in Scandinavia but hasn't had a fair view of what's available.
The goal isn't to replace the official services — it's to make their data accessible to the people those services weren't designed for. Someone in Toronto or Cape Town or Singapore who is genuinely qualified for a role in Stockholm or Oslo shouldn't have to first become fluent in Swedish or Norwegian just to discover that the job exists.
The map, the climate widget, the visa guide — these came from a recognition that finding the job is only one part of the decision. Relocating to a country you've never lived in is a significant commitment, and people deserve real, useful context: what the winters actually look like, how the visa process works, what to expect from employers who've hired internationally before. NordicJobs.net is trying to be a genuine resource for that transition, not just a list of links.
"If you have the qualifications for one of the jobs listed here, the main thing standing between you and a career in Scandinavia probably isn't the language barrier. It's just knowing the jobs exist."
— Anders, founder
The site is independent, subscription-supported, and deliberately ad-free. There's no algorithm deciding which jobs to show you based on who paid for placement. The listings come from official government sources and are presented without editorial interference. What you see is what's actually posted.