Do you want to work as a guide?
If you are an authorised NGS guide for Bergen and are interested in working for Norwegian Guide Service,
please contact us at 5533 4220 or e-mail kurs@norwegianguideservice.no
The Norwegian Guide Service Guide Course is a fully comprehensive, Self Study Correspondence course which prepares you for working for us as a guide for the summer season. The course comprises of 160 hours of Self Study, Guided Visits and Practical Training, and covers everything you will need in your work as a guide, from a basic Norwegian language course and introduction to the Service Industry, right through to presentation techniques and detailed study visits to all of the attractions you will be guiding your passengers around.
The course is scheduled to run from February/March 2012 - May 2012, the first part of which will be done as Distance Learning,
and will culminate with approx. 15 days of practice based in Bergen. Participants need to be available for the full duration of the course.
Our guide courses offer:
- Distance Learning studies with assessments throughout the course
- You study wherever you are - use any computer in the world with an Internet connection
- The classroom is always open - study at the time that suits you best
- "Introduction to Norway" Module for non-Norwegian participants
- General service education
- Oral and written examination
- Local NGS authorisation in the languages in which you wish to guide
- All authorisations are given by a committee established by NGS and ECS
- Price for the course: NOK 2000. Fees sponsored by Norwegian Guide Service (normal Course price NOK 14,000).
If you live outside Bergen, you will have to organise and pay for your own travel to Bergen and lodging during the course and summer season.
The average cost of an apartment in Bergen is about 530 Euro per month.
We require that you:
- are at least 23 years old
- are representative and sociable
- speak the language that you will guide in fluently (e.g. you have studied the language or spent time in the country where the language is spoken)
- have a minimum of Intermediate English (this will be the language of course instruction)
- are highly motivated and flexible
- have at least one year of working experience
- are available to work during all summer months (May, June, July and August), based in Bergen
- live in the centre of Bergen
- have or will get a Work Permit and a Norwegian bank account
- have or will get a mobile phone with a Norwegian phone number
- have completed the entire guide course and passed the examinations
- are able to work at short notice and enjoy working closely with guide colleagues
We offer you:
- an exciting summer job
- a busy summer season (June, July and August)
- salary according to assignment (per day/assignment)
- the possibility of returning to work for us each summer
- opportunities to work as a guide, transfer guide, tour leader for bus groups
- opportunities to work for our mother company, European Cruise Service
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