Swedish for Professionals is a small company who advertises for "language enthusiasts" whom they employ as language coaches and send out as their representatives to different companies in Stockholm, Göteborg and Malmö to teach Swedish to expats stationed at those companies. The position as language coach is expressely advertised as an extra job with low salary, "best suitable for students or retired people" as they said in the first interview. The interview process itself was nonetheless the most thorough employment test I´ve ever went through. First, send in a CV, then pitch yourself in 20 words, get a call from a HR who is asking you a bunch of questions (I thought it was an interview, but it turned out it wasn´t), then go through an online grammar test, then make an appointment and show your skills in an half an hour "proof-teaching" , which in my case had to be done with a fake beginner as the only student (who btw had Swedish as her mother tongue, so pretty awkward, non-authentic situation), and so, when second HR called back and said they were satisfied, and asked if I was still interested, I thought we were done, but noooo! There had to be made an appointment for an interview. 40 more minutes of my life went away to answer a list of non-personal HR-questions, which, tbh, felt like a repetition of the "pitch yourself!-process at the start... third HR calls back and offers me a job, I get the offer for the highest salary, 17 euro/h, and so we finally get to the last step, signing the contract. That was the stage when I backed out. The contract includes a passage where one is expected to redirect all eventual further clients to the company itself, no matter why they would ask for your help, i.e. private tutoring on advanced level or suggestions for language education of their daughter, son or a friend of theirs. So for this salary one is expected to do all the work for the company, including further marketing, and basically decline all rights to suggest any other options available. Naturally, I declined. They try to own the market, but this is not a correct procedure. Give people the opportunity of free choice to educational devices and they will come back to you if you provide quality.
