Hallo Allemaal,
What a great resource this forum is. I am happy to have found you all and hoping for some advice.
I am currently employed and live in Seattle, WA, USA and have been passively applying for jobs at multinationals in the Netherlands in my line of work for about a year. I hold an EU passport and am extremely interested in relocating in or around Amsterdam. I have put lots of work into my resume (for local use), but also continually go back to ensure I have a customized version to serve as a solid CV when applying for jobs in the Netherlands/Europe.
I have yet to have even one company show interest or decline me personally. When navigating through the application portals that most larger companies use (e.g. Taleo, Workday, etc.), you are simply asked to provide your primary contact/residency information with no way to give additional detail. I, of course, live in the States, and am starting to get concerned that this is step is what is sinking my prospects. Are companies inferring that I am not an EU national and don't want to get involved in a messy process?
Am I overthinking this? How have other EU nationals living outside the EU ensured that prospective companies know they are employable in the EU?
John