[olavgg]

I'm a senior full stack developer with data science experience living in EU(Norway). I have not applied for a position that has been advertised in 6 years. All the offers I consider these days comes from cold calls from recruiters or the companies them self. They have to sell them self, as I am the interviewer.

Where I work now, we really struggled last year with recruiting developers, so we changed the recruitment process by searching LinkedIn for profiles that could be a good fit and called them with a sales pitch about why we are better place to work at than your current company. That worked much better, but surprisingly we also learned that many is very happy with their current position and is not looking for a change. You know, there is risk involved with changing work, especially if you are happy where you are. The saying, don't fix it if it ain't broken applies to recruitment too.

And I would like to add, some of our best hires we got from Berlin ;-)

[stadeschuldt]

When did Norway become part of the European Union?

[olavgg]

Norway is a part of the EAA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Economic_Area) and is a EFTA member (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFTA) Basically a member of EU, with a few exceptions.

[kakaorka]

He probably meant Europe.