The queue is long on Södergatan in central Helsingborg and inside the premises of the employment agency it is full.
During Tuesday, a joint job fair was organized on both sides of the Sound.
One on the south in Helsingborg and one at the Kulturvaerftet next to Kronborg in Helsingör.
- I have come here because I will finish studying soon and need a job over the summer, says Nikita Augustsson, who visited the fair in Helsingborg.
The fair was organized by the city of Helsingborg, the Employment Service and Helsingör municipality.
Similar to the lack of strength
The situation on both sides of the Sound is similar in many ways, but seen from the point of view of unemployment, the difference is large.
According to the European Commission's statistical database, Eurostat, unemployment in our neighboring country is 4.8 percent, while the corresponding figure in Sweden is 7.3 percent.
- But the lack of manpower, i.e. the skills we are looking for, looks the same on both sides of the Sound, says Carina Månsson, head of employment services in northwestern Scania.
High school education essential
Many times it is about jobs that require a high school diploma, such as jobs in care or logistics.
Whether the Danish exchange rate attracts more Swedes to look for jobs in Denmark is difficult to answer, according to Carina Månsson, but the fact that it would create a skewed distribution is not something that worries her.
- If unemployment goes down in Sweden because Swedes work in Denmark, that is nothing negative, she says.
But the opportunities to look for a job are not the same for everyone.
- We cannot look for a job in Denmark, we have to find a job in Sweden because it is a requirement from the Swedish Migration Agency, says Irina Fadieieva, who came to Sweden from Ukraine just over a year ago.
In the clip above, some of the job seekers tell us what they are looking for