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Your chances, your diploma and training

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Theme 1 · Work and income · Lesson 2 of 7

Your chances, your diploma and training

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The situation

Yonas was an electrician in his own country. He wants to know whether his diploma is worth something in the Netherlands.

The lesson

Your chance of finding work depends on several things: your education, your work experience, when you can work, your motivation and how well you speak Dutch.

Do you have a diploma from abroad? Then you can have its value in the Netherlands assessed. This is called . You can go to the International Diploma Evaluation service (IDW) for this.

Learning does not stop after school. A course or further training makes your chances of work bigger.

People doing their civic integration can prepare for work with the Labour Market and Participation Module (MAP) or with training. But you also have to make an effort yourself to earn an income.

Remember

Have a foreign diploma evaluated by IDW, and keep learning: language, education and experience together increase your chance of work.

Test

Five questions about this lesson. With 7 out of 10 (two stars) the next lesson opens.

Question 1
Where can you have the value of your foreign diploma in the Netherlands assessed?
Question 2
What affects your chance of finding work?
Question 3
Why is further training important?
Question 4
What can people doing civic integration use to prepare for work?
Question 5
Who has to make an effort to earn an income?

Next lesson: No work: UWV or the municipality

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