Do you want to work as a guide?
If you are an authorised guide in Bergen or Oslo 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, intensive course which prepares you for working for us as a guide for the summer season. The course is 150 hours (160 hours for those not already living in Norway), 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 6 days each week, which will include both evenings and weekends. Participants need to be available for the full duration of the course.
We are sorry to announce that NGS will not be arranging guide course in 2010.
Please visit our website next year regarding guidecourse in 2011.
Thank you for your patience!
Our guide courses offer:
- Intensive studies
- 2 Day "Introduction to Norway" Course for non-Norwegian participants
- General service education
- Oral and written examination
- Local NGS authorisation in the languages in which you wish to guide
- National NGS authorisation in the languages in which you wish to guide
- All authorisations are given by a committee established by NGS
- Course fees sponsored by Norwegian Guide Service. Normal Course price NOK 12,000.
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 400 Euro per month.
We require that you:
- are at least 21 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
- can and wish to work during all summer months (June-August)
- 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 attended the entire guide course and passed the examinations
- are able to travel at short notice and enjoy working closely with guide colleagues, travelling (may be 5 - 10 hours by plane / tour bus) and sharing hotel rooms
- have or will be able to get a passport
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
How an assignment in Lofoten may look:
You will have your assignment confirmed by Norwegian Guide Service in the morning, and will be sent by plane from Bergen to Lofoten in the afternoon. There you will check into the hotel that is booked for you. The next morning, you and your colleagues have to meet at the pier at 8 AM. You will be the guide for a group of 40 persons for the next 8 hours, and you will spend time visiting different museums and have lunch in a restaurant with the group. Back at the pier after 8 hours, you will go by plane to Bergen, where you will land at approx. 1145 PM.
Other ports that you can be sent to: Tromsø, Trondheim, Molde, Åndalsnes, Hellesylt, Geiranger, Ålesund, Olden, Flåm, Vik, Gudvangen, Eidfjord, Ulvik, Stavanger or Oslo.
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