Looking For Jobs with Visa Sponsorship - Software Test Automation

Hi and welcome to the Forum.

I see you've already advertised in our Jobs Forum, that is one way to achieve your goal.

Visa Sponsorship visas are normally related to Highly Skilled Migrant visas; there are some rules that have to be adhered to; the basic one is that it must be a skill that cannot be filled by somebody else looking for a similar role who is already living in the Netherlands, then there are rules related to salary levels etc.

Assuming you can meet all those, you then need to find a job that falls into the rules and that job has to be offered by an organisation who is registered with the Dutch government department (IND) that regulate this; so how can you do this:

One method is to use Google to find agencies looking for your skill set, so the keyword is Uitzendbureau, then some further keywords that will introduce some of your key skills into the search and then maybe the area where your looking.  Try not to use jargon terms unless they are in international use.

Another is to use LinkedIn and reach out to your peers who are perhaps already in Europe to find out whether they are recruiting, or how they did it.

Hope this helps.

Cynic
Expat Team

Thank you for the details. I got a few calls through Linkedin.

Hi again.

No problem; just to add to what a couple of my colleagues on the German Forum told you with regards to languages.  Life in the office may well be in English, but the moment you walk out of the door, life is in Dutch; the bus time-tables, the posters in your doctor's waiting room, it's all in Dutch.  Life is pretty boring if you don't speak the language where you live.

Hope this helps.

Cynic
Expat Team