Would be easy to get a job after studying in Latvia, and/or part-time job while studying?

I am very sorry if i Disturb you .but that is meaning there is not ability to work in labor law to employees which are not good in Latvian language.and how can i get "knowledge passport.

Absolutely. If you don't know Latvian, if you are not a citizen of Latvia, and if you don't have the Latvian education in law - most likely you won't be allowed to work in this area. I know some lawyers which graduated in US, and they maybe working in the collaborative (LV<->US) companies as consultants. However you must have lots of contacts and trust amongst Latvian partners to work that way. It's not the door opened to everybody.

Here is some information (in Latvian) on the National Center for Education which you may translate using Google translator to see what kind of exams and conditions you should met before you get the "passport", i.e. certificate of proficiency (apliecība).

Here are some excerpts from this article (which is not available in English on their website, unfortunately):

The language test

The language proficiency test is to assess the person's state (Latvian) language skills.
If the language test is passed successfully, the person receives a certificate of proficiency.
State language certificate is required:

- for work,
- a permanent residence permit
- The European Union's permanent resident status.

The language proficiency test provided by the Latvian Ministry of Education and Science (MES), the State Education Centre (SECC), the state language examination department.
The language proficiency test proficiency test panel.

Contact:
Mailing address: Valnu street 2 (606th cabinet), Riga, LV-1050
Phone: 67814480, 67281232

Latvian is a set of three proficiency levels:
basic or level A
average or Level B,
Level C or higher.

Each level has two stages:
First - Lower degree;
Second - The highest level.

thanks very much. but may be there is mis understand and i couldn't explained good
i want to come to Latvia to get Master in Human Resources Management i didn't like my study in law college.and i don't want to be lawyer .i want to change my career and get good certificate from good collage like Riga International School of Economics and Business Administration (RISEBA.i will not get academic master .i will get professional master ,because i will study another Different specialization far off i studied before
. but there is huge problem to me .i haven't have a lot of money .so i should be working with study to can live.
i can work any thing like Construction worker - a plumber-painter-wash dishes
does that easy to find this works without learn Latvian language?
And how can i find this jobs?
Does this salary can Enough essential life?.

Like I explained above, it's almost to impossible to find a well-paid job without knowing the Latvian language. There are already thousands of workers with no education, which do not have any job. If you will be just a one from them, I'm afraid you can't count on something special.

Also, even if you would find such job - may be as a porter/loader on the market, or cleaner, or something similar which DOES NOT require communicating with people - even in that case it doesn't always mean the employer won't deceive you. There are hundreds of known cases when employees worked hard, but in result, didn't get their salaries, and without knowing the language, without being a citizen you have no chances to win your rights... This world of lowest salaries is full of crap, you know. You must be quite a lucky guy, or have good friends/contact which will help you to find a non-qualified but constantly paid job.

Also, I'm almost sure the money which you will earn with such job, will not be enough both for paying your education and for life at once. It would not be enough... as I know, in RISEBA you may pay at least 500 LVL i.e. about $1000/year, meaning about LVL 55/month... + you need to pay for educational books, materials, transport, etc. So it could be about 100 LVL/month just for education... and may be this is also 1/2 of the salary you may get for unqualified job, without knowing the Language.

I hope it explains it all

I cannot describe how you inform me about very important information about Latvia.you are wonderful face to Latvia and i hope all people be like you.thanks a lot.

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why this is so much hard to work in Latvia ? Now the whole world is a village and can better exchanges ideas and work. Work for short period of time to gain some education and experiences and it is not being denied of not paying him his rewards. We cannot build castle by such unethical means liking not paying the person who is worth for it and works.

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If you want my (yet another) subjective opinion, regarding your question - it is because Latvia was, is and will be a "slavery" land. Unfortunately there are small part of qualified workers, which could outsource their work to other rich countries like US, EU or even Russia (Moscow), and get a "proper" salary from them whole staying here and spending the money here - but you must be educated and qualified enough for such work at first. It's still a very good and possibly best idea to work for the West/East, but spend the money here. Then you would probably get a normal balance on your pocket.

But regarding the major part of Latvian workers - about 85% are forced to stay on the local market, and provide their services to local market only. And the local market is very poor. Imagine that EU or US are tens-of-million-customers markets; and Latvia is less than a million market of potential customers, in total. About 30% of total workers in Latvia serve the government needs, i.e. this is bureaucracy, police, medicine, education. They all are "non-commercial" areas of work, where you can't get the high salary because the government can't pay it because of a small local market and very small income.

That's why many people here are forced to work on 2-3 jobs to pay their bills, educate kids and buy some food just for surviving...

I agree to yuta. While living in Latvia for not so many years, I am noticing lots of injustice in Latvia. One of the examples of it: just recently, on February 14th Saeima ratified the European Social Charter without the article on the right to a proper reward, thereby effectively legalizing such an injustice .

I had also bad experiences in the past in New Delhi and some parts of India . Owners did not want to pay the workers and even pay less and impose false allegation. But now it has been changed due to more awareness, media, communication, but still people being exploited one because of people's need as mentioned by Yuta paying bills but here major parts for saving money to get the daughters marriage and their dowry . Parents have bigger challenge to get their kids get proper education even governments schools are available and medical facilities also but people prefer private one due to insufficient services by governments runs department. Other wise India would be the best place to live.

You see there is economy within economy. You see in India we have many tribal areas and they have their own economy based on forest ,living standard, kind of education required and you see these economies are deteriorating day by days due to greedy people since they want more resources and cutting forest and destroying their Eco system and Eco economy which have been there since centuries .

Don't you think Latvia is adopting US or other countries in respect of culture and way of living which may cause such problem where people have to work very hard and 2-3 jobs .?
And Second are people spending much than expectation and earnings. A new way of enjoying ? And their is lesser sense of cooperation .

I am very happy to see you people who are really very cooperative Salute to all I want such people in India who should have such forums where people can put their views and query and these gentle people answer them

Regards,
Hira

I'm almost sure India *is* one of the best places to live on Earth even despite that you have mentioned.

BTW, one of the Latvian deputies, Valery Kravcov, has been recently in India for marrying her daughter to an Indian man and it was the top news in all local Latvian media published in Russian (because Kravcov is actually Russian; sadly, I understand Russian very briefly so I can't put more infos or links here).


Yes! Sad to say, but Latvia IS adopting these rules, because it seems Latvians are really very small and poor nation to fight against or have their own opinion just 4-5 years ago when I arrived here, I have thought I may be adopted to this little country (specially after Belgium where I was born) but now it seems it's very "country-side" if I may say so... people, most likely, do not have their own opinion or can't develop on their own without others help. And "the others" is now European Union which forces its own rules to EVERYTHING happening in Latvia these days. So me and my girlmate and the little kid we have now have plans to move somewhere else... India seems one of the best places


I'm sure people do not enjoy this regime at all. They are mostly like sitting on auto-pilots. Watching my girlmate's parents, I'm wondering they still are up to some job (while being aged 64 and 66 in relation). They have been paid about 150 LVL each for their pension years, and now they each have a little "official" job which gives them may be 150-200 LVL per both. So they have about 400-500 LVL each month per both (that means about 700-750 EUR - for BOTH) and they feel quite happy! Because comparing to other families, which have less than 100 EUR per each member per month, it could be truly named "lucky"...

You are welcome and feel free! We were setting up these forums few years ago exactly for no censorship, no cut on opinions; this is exactly why I am still here and few other people too!