Diana Lund Nordstrøm ☀️’s Post

Remember that people will ask you about the title if it’s important 🙂

When I first moved to Denmark back in the early 90s, I was surprised to see a letter from the bank addressed to my husbabd as Hr. Ingeniør... - literally Mr. Engineer... That practice and the use of titles in everyday life was already declining by that time and within a couple of years it stopped altogether and became viewed as extremely old fashioned (just watch Matador) and you'll know what I mean. However, when it comes to professional "titles", they're still important (at least in writing), and all the acronyms for a person's many degrees are especially important to Danes. The titles may not be used in day-to-day interactions, but in written communication, persentations and reports they are defintely still used. And I don't know a single doctor, scientist, professor, CEO or even machine technician who doesn't use their title in professional settings.

Thanks for mentioning my book "How to Work in Denmark", Diana! 😀 It can be heartbreaking to international job seekers that the things they are most proud of...their degrees, their certificates, their placements as #1 or #2 in their graduating class, their academic titles or titles at past jobs...don't mean much to the Danes. Danish employers are interested in how you solve problems, which is why I recommend that jobseekers turn up to interviews with a few examples of how they confronted a specific challenge in their field, and how they creatively solved it. 🤔

My title? My title is "akademisk daglejer" 🤣 But I could choose to use so many other titles. If I wanted to.

This was really helpful, thanks yet again Diana Lund Nordstrøm ☀️. I think it is more cultural than just attributing that because education is free in Denmark, Our titles dont matter to Denamrk. Denmark values talent and higher education and have seen lots of respect for education. I agree and love the idea how titles do not matter , however it should not be linked to the cost of education as if education is free in Denmark, we give a damn, it doesnt matter what you have studied. I think it is un fair to link it to financials as most of my education in my country was also free of cost in Public universities that has produced doctors who are serving all over the world and saving lives. It is more cultural as we are so used to saying heyy im dr mona i nstaed of just Mona and i will learn that fast. As there is a very thin line between bragging and being proud of your education and being thankful for God to have allowed you the chance to learn and understand, similarly the line is thin between respecting and valuing anyone's education and being humble about titles in Denmark. Lastly , I chose Denmark because i wanted to serve the land with my skills and imagine a very symbiotic , happy return from a lovely and beautiful country.