Bernlow Romanian Consulting - company's profile.

We are specialized in finding international working force to Scandinavian companies (farms) and to offer consultancy to the farmers abroad. We have many years experince in integrating workers in Danish farms, and we have a close relationship with Danish Agricultural Centers. 

We have also a great international network of contact persons, we have a lot of experience in understanding the East European culture and mentality, making translations together with arranging contact to the relevant public offices in East Europe.

Director's profile - Vittus Bernlow

I was born on a little town, Upernavik, in Nord-Vest Greenland in 1970. When I as 3 years old, my parents decided to return to Denmark, but after I have travelled again to Greenland for many times. At the age of 17 I started my agricultural education at Borris Landbrugsskole-Denmark and after a year of practice at a farm in Skarrild-Denmark, I searched for a job in Iceland. I was employed as a production leader on a little farm with 50 saws at the outskirts of the capital, Reykjavik. After I finished my practice here, I got a new job in Norway on a bigger pig farm where I remained for 2 years. Afterwards i studied Modul 2 at the same Danish agricultural school, Borris Landbrugsskole, and after finishing my education, I was contacted by my earlier employer from Iceland. He wanted me to be the leader of a new pig farm. I said yes and thanks for the offer and started immediately with the building project of Icelands biggest farm, which today has place for 1300 saws and its own slaughter house. At that time I was 23 years old.
In 1998 I started as a teacher at Borris Landbrugsskole and a short period after my employment, I started to teach Romanian agricultural trainees/students. The first group I had was made of 5 Romanian students and I should teach them about pig production. It was a challenge as the teaching methods from Denmark and Romania were very different. In Romania the students should listen to the teacher without asking too many questions, while here in Denmark we like to have dialogues with the students.
Can it be something positive to educate and to have foreign students in Denmark like trainees?

My first foreign sudents have really good jobs today in Europe and many are on their good start in their life. Many of the students say themselves, after many years spent in Denmark, that they see their own countries "with other eyes" when they return home. One can obviuosly come to the conclusion that the foreign students can learn a lot from what we offer on the practical places and the schools in Denmark.

During my teaching experience of the East European students, in 2003 I was also one of the promotores and since that time the leader of the Vocational School Vestjylland, which educates Danish young people with special needs.

Between 2007-2009 I was vice principal at Borris Landbrugsskole and then, from August 2009 I was employeed at Agroskolen as educational leader.

Bernlow Romanian Consultings main target is to recruit young staff for the Danish work market. The majority of our jobs are in the agricultural field, especially cow,pig or mink farms.

Here you can register as a user on our home page, and thus you will receive our newsletters and get access to our services, f. ex. registering of your CV in order to get a job.

>> Register as a user here.

After you have made a user profile, log in and press submit CV button.

HOW DO I GET STARTED?

You need to fill out the CV form, which you will find on top of this page. After you have submittet your CV, we will contact you. Next step is an interview on Skype. You will be informed of your coming employer's requests by e-mail , and then the best suitable person will be chosen by the farmer himself.

We gather all the CV's which we get from possible candidates in a data base, and when a farmer asks for our services, we choose the best suitable CV-s for the job , based on your and the farmers requests.  

The interviews with the candidates will take place in an East European country or using the program Skype ,which can be downloaded for free from www.skype.com .  This means that you should have speakers, microphone, a web camera and a good internet connection. Our skype id is Bernlow70.

The purpose of the interview is to evaluate your English level and your motivation to work in the specific job we may offer. 

We underline that our company does not take any commission from the candidates. 

REQUESTS:

- Good physical condition ,having in mind that working in a farm requires great physical effort. 

- Good English skills.

- Drivers license is recommended.

- Age between 20 and 35 years old.

- Education: minimum secondary school. 

- Any agricultural experience is an advantage. 

TRAVELLING TO DENMARK:

You arrange and pay your own travel to/from Denmark yourself. Pickup by either BRC or your coming employer at airports/busstations in Jutland can be arranged. You also need to carry a minimum of 200 Euro with you , in case your employer is not satisfied with your services and you therefore need to return to your homecountry.The first 3 months is a trial.

DOCUMENTS:

- Passport valid at least 2 years forward. 

- Latest educational diploma translated into English and notified at a public notary or at the school.

- Other educational papers only needs to be translated to English by an authorized translator.

- Copy of your passport. 

- Copy of your ID.

- Criminal record translated to English. 

- Medical certificate from your GP (family doctor) in which it must be specified that you are clinically healthy and able to work. 

- Personal medical ensurance valid at least 3 months from your arrival in Denmark.

- passport picture

- certificate from your Mayour house with the address, this certificate gives you the possibility to get a higher deduction from SKAT.

USEFUL INFORMATION:

We suggest that you avoid taking your personal car to Denmark, since you have to pay high taxes to the Danish Authorities in order to use your own car ,from the moment you are registred as an employee. For more information, please contact The Office for the Danish Tax at their web site www.skat.dk ( http://www.skat.dk/SKAT.aspx?oID=213873&vID=0 )
 

Vittus Bernlow was employed as a leader at the Human Resources department within Agri Nord - Denmark starting with 1 July 2011.
We will continue with the same system like now to make recruitment and we will keep our home page to register CV-s.
Agri Nord is one of North Jutland's largest consulting firms with 240 employees which is specialized in providing professional knowledge and consultancy to clients within the agricultural industry.
Agri Nord advises clients on plant breeding, product development, obtaining funds/subsidies, ecology, economy, finance, livestock and environment, construction / engineering and legal advice on real estate transactions.
They also advise small and medium enterprises, in particular craft and service areas, in accounting, auditing and financial consulting.
Agri Nord has offices in Aalborg, Aars, Hobro and Hadsund. The recruitment center is in Aars and from august 2011 we will be able to make interviews face to face also, but we need to establish a time and a date before.

Oana Elena Chirila will be manager of Bernlow Romanian Consulting and she will deal mostly with translations for Romanian - Danish - English languages and Danish language courses for the foreign employees who work in Denmark.
The next group of Danish courses will start around 15 august in Aars and Aalborg Agri Nord centers. The teaching will be made from Romanian to Danish or English to Danish for other nationalities than Romanian. The most of the costs for the language course will be supported by the farmers, and the students will pay just a little sum per month.

 More info about Danish courses will come in August. If you are interested about the courses please contact us by e-mail: oana@bernlow.dk or by phone 89 93 90 53.

Agri Nord Press Release- Aalborg 30. juni 2011


Agri Nord offers now recruitment and Human Resources (HR) consulting services

Within Agri Nord we can offer now to our clients consultancy services for recruitment of qualified labour force to all the Danish agricultural sector, and in the same time we can offer services and advice within the Human Resources area. The concept covers and includes:
- employment matters, salary, training courses and advice concerning staff leadership, - job meetings and discussions and job interviews
- consultancy concerning employment of foreign workers, including recruitment, special rules, Danish language courses, translations and advice on cultural differences.
The consultancy is offered for both Danish and foreign employees and the subjects will be treated by our department which has 5-6 employees.
The administrative director Erik Lydiksen says: ”We have hired Vittus Bernlow as a team leader for ”Recruitment and HR consultancy" department from 1st July” and we are looking forward to our collaboration. Vittus' skills fit very well in that palette of advisory offers which we, Agri Nord, would like to offer to our clients. Our clients have showed interest for consultancy in the personnel area, which means, that now we establish a competence center within recruitment and HR. In the new team there are gathered all the tasks and consultancy services which we have already offered and in the future the team will develop the concept in relationship to the wishes and the needs which our clients show.
Vittus Bernlow has many years of experience in recruitment of foreign workers and he has worked with Romanian agricultural students over 14 years, partly from Borris Landbrugsskole. Therefore Vittus Bernlow has a good connection to Romanian leaders and trainees who would like to come to work in Denmark.
"We try our best to match the profile of the candidates with the farmers wishes. In this way we are more confident that there will be a good match for all the parts" says Vittus Bernlow. He underlines that, it is better if a farmer makes a request in a good time, as the probability for all the parts to go well has a bigger chance.

Understanding and Interaction/Team work

When Vittus Bernlow intermediates foreign working power, the understanding and interaction are on high seats/focus. He has intermediated over 1.000 foreign leaders and trainees in Denmark, primarily from Romania. Most of these Romanians have had a good relationship with the Danish farmers, but sometimes it can run not so good, and this is due to the lack of culture and background knowledge.
" A common problem, is that in East Europe a man dares not to come with suggestions to a person with a higher level than himself. If somebody asks them "Did you understand what you have to do?" so they always answer "yes" in the very start - and thus there happens mistakes very easily. That is why, it is very important, especially in the beginning of an employment or during the training period, to do something with the rules/directions/instructions" says Vittus Bernlow.

A farmer and his employee may both speak very well English, but still understand each other like night and day due to the cultural differences, and Vittus Bernlow can help when there are such big and small problems in the relationship between the employer and the employee.