Stockholm – where businesses develop and talent thrives
Do you want to recruit international talent to your company? Here you will find support, tools and contact paths to attract and retain the right competence—and strengthen your attractiveness as an employer.
Strengthen your recruitment
Whether you are building a startup tech company or leading a global group, your business is part of Stockholm’s innovation environment. As an employer, you compete not only with salary and benefits, but also with how easy it is for international employees to live, work and thrive here.
Here we have collected support, guidance and networks that help you recruit internationally, develop your employer offering and find the right context within the region's business community.
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Become an attractive employer – with Employer Ability
Employer Ability is about how you are perceived as an employer—by both candidates and employees. By working systematically with culture, leadership, offering and the workplace experience, you increase your attractiveness, strengthen engagement and create better conditions for profitable growth. We give you the tools to take the next step.
Reports and good examples
Strengthen the employer brand
How other countries work to attract and retain labour with both economic incentives and attractive living environments.
Work in Sweden
A project to attract, establish and retain highly qualified international competence and other foreign labour.
Experiences of international recruitment
Small and medium-sized enterprises share their experiences and lessons learned.
The Insider’s Guide
Inspiration and practical advice for successful international talent recruitment.
Employer branding from the ground up
Great Place to Work reviews five steps to attract and retain talent.
The EURES network
Public and private organizations that can help you with job matching or recruitment in Europe.
Participate in networks and events
Being where the action is makes a difference. By participating in and organising networking meetings, career events and recruitment opportunities, you build relations, meet new talent and demonstrate your employer offering in practice. Our events are a meeting place where companies and talent find each other—and where you can be visible in contexts where your target group is present. Participate in existing activities and suggest your own arrangements. In this way, you become part of the ecosystem surrounding skills supply and recruitment.
Benefits for your business:
- Creates visibility where talent and decision-makers move.
- Builds relationships that strengthen both recruitment and business.
- Demonstrates your employer offering in concrete contexts.
- Provides more relevant candidates for your roles.
- Increases the reach of your own events.
Upcoming events
Strategic Business Forum
Sustainable Progress
Mind the Gap: What I wish I’d known before raising
Introduction meeting for international researchers: Practical information about living in Sweden
Female Angel Breakfast
The tech industry as an employer
Contacts and support for recruiting international talent
Stockholm has a strong ecosystem that makes it easy for companies to attract and hire international competence. Public actors, established recruitment partners and an academia with global reach contribute to strengthening access to talent. Here is a selection of actors:
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MultiMind
Recruitment with an international focus and support for visa processes.
Beyondo
Matching global competence and international talent.
Incluso
Recruitment of internationally educated and foreign-born candidates.
Nexer Recruit
Tech and specialist recruitment with global reach.
OnePartnerGroup
Broad recruitment, staffing and interim solutions.
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Stockholm School of Economics (SSE)
International top talent in economics, finance and management.
Karolinska Institutet
Global excellence in life science. Access to researchers, doctoral students and international students.
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Career services and matching with international students and researchers.
Stockholm University
Large international student and research network offering internships, collaboration and degree projects.
Södertörn University
Broad international network in IT, social sciences and humanities.