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WORK IN SPAIN: JOB SEARCH, WAGES, RESUMES, JOBS - LANGUAGE AND CONTACTS ARE IMPORTANT

Difficult Job: Jobs

SPAIN LIVE Service - Who is on your own to Spain and to build up here an existence will, who may fool ourselves: The Sun Sangria Siesta label affixed only to the cliché box. The English labor market is hard, the wages are lower, the cost of living is high, the social network weak. It was already so, when unemployment was lower.

sine qua non of good knowledge of the English language, values and customs. And the willingness to engage in a completely different view of work. If you think you are with proven efficiency and thoroughness in the advantage, is expected to soon nut to crack. For the English strengths include flexibility, improvisation and friendliness.

The flexibility, however, applies only to the content and the ability to work on several things. The external, the formal framework is rather strict: The daily working hours are longer than we used to in the German-speaking countries. And unlike some people thinks that the number of holidays is the same.


It is unusual not to appear at work, because you want to partying as overtime or working from home. Part-time work was a few years ago rejected by their mothers, because they will be too little deserved. A collegial atmosphere in which all first-name basis, should not blind us to strict hierarchies.


Even if the English government promotes the permanent placement, there are still many fixed-term contracts. In practice these are often not renewed, because they would be otherwise after the Labour converted into firm contracts. But with a trick that obligation is avoided: the fact to the satisfaction of the end of work is fired and then, after a short time, again with a new "contrato basura (garbage contract) set - without social security and without the ability to plan long term.


The minimum monthly wage is in 2011 at € 641. Spain is the latest since the crisis known as the land of a thousand-Euro-earner, because nearly half of all workers are content with 1000 € gross / month needs. Youth unemployment is 40 percent. The construction industry and its suppliers do not offer more jobs, tourism is limited to seasonal offerings.


Academic degrees must, if they are a condition for employment, be homologated in Spain. A process that takes time and doctors and teachers is important


Without English no job (image: Kügler).



applications: A English, but not bad manners are commendable job applications, coming along as a mere CV and addressed to the Chief of Personnel of the firm. The must then go through the study of the CV an image, which would have the job of the candidate for you. Should not be. The more concrete the letter, the greater the chance not just put in the shredder to be. Nevertheless, the writing style to meet certain formal requirements that serve to politeness.

But more important are personal contacts. And it is good knowledge of English. It makes a bad impression if you shines with his English and The national language is ignored. Knowledge of the other three official languages, Catalan, Galician and Basque, are required only under certain circumstances. With a job in Barcelona, Catalonia's capital, may be quite important Catalan.


The Job: The daily newspapers at the weekend, thick inserts. There are government offices (INEM), local labor markets and employment agencies. The German Chamber of Commerce offers assistance. As EURES, the European job market with job attributes is known. Because Switzerland is also involved. This website lists a few professions in which it could most likely be required: Currently about could mechanic Schlosser, doctors, midwives, nurses, cooks and security staff have opportunities. Clementine Kügler


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German Chamber of Commerce in Spain


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