I need a job!!

Tom6733 New member

Member since 15 June 2018

Tom6733New member18 June 2018 15:39:55

Hi all,
My name is Tom, I´m Irish, 40 years young, have been living in Spain for several years, speak the local language, and have been TRYING to find a job for about 2 years, without any joy.
My favourite work experience to date was with Microsoft in Dublin where I was leading a team of "fantastic admins" from Portugal, Poland, Italy, Germany, and Spain with handling pricing requests from sales teams worldwide, which was loads of fun. Why did I leave - I had to have a back operation and so due to health reasons had to be operated on in Spain and then chose the better climate.
These days I´m looking for teaching, admin, translation, courier etc work but my preference is to work in a Back Office Sales Support role, similar to that in Microsoft. I live in Alicante and am more than willing to move city for the right job.

If there´s anyone out there who´s looking for a good, honest and fun worker like me, I´d really appreciate the help.

Cheers
Tom

Chris ViP

Member since 08 June 2015

ChrisViP19 June 2018 06:27:59

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Hi Tom,

Welcome to Expat.com

I see that you've already listed an advert in our jobs section, thank you for that.

I suggest you to go through the articles of our Living in Spain guide and also try out these links:
Oficina empleo - National Agency for Employment www.oficinaempleo.com
Servicio público - find a job in Spain www.sepe.es
Eures – The European Mobility Portal ec.europa.eu
Infojobs www.infojobs.net
Language jobs www.talentsearchpeople.com
Monster www.monster.es
Indeed www.indeed.es
Infoempleo www.infoempleo.com
Bolsa de trabajo www.bolsadetrabajo.com
Trabajo.org www.trabajo.org
Monster www.monster.es
Iagora www.iagora.com
Trabajando www.trabajando.es
Indeed www.indeed.es

Best of luck

Chris
Expat.com

Tom6733 New member

Member since 15 June 2018

Tom6733New member19 June 2018 08:43:46

Thanks for the message. I´m already registered with those.

I believe the fact that there´s a gap in my experience, due to an operation, is why I´m not getting any positive emails or calls. I did also go to companies, give them my cv and call back but to no avail. I do have the experience and I speak Spanish.

I know I´m not alone with this situation though as I´m aware of one friend, who like me, is Irish and married to a Spanish woman, who lives and works in Ireland and visits his wife whenever he can, and that´s the point I´m reaching.

In the local library and on notice boards in my large village, I put up adverts for working as a cleaner, translator, teaching English, walking dogs, helping senior citizens etc. I´ve also been working as a volunteer with the Red Cross for almost two years but need paid employment.

I had a rush of business ideas the other night, such as, for a market stall and have one very good "workable" idea for tourists if anyone out there is interested in joining me.

When I´m not job hunting, I´m a house husband, do the shopping and take care of our dogs. I´m also doing an online course with Google in order to bring myself up to speed with business in 2018, to make up for the gap during which I haven´t had paid employment.

On the plus side (!!!), following recent flights to Ireland, I came up with an idea and am following up on this with every language school I can find in Spain...to make things turn for myself as I have always been a quick think who thinks outside the box.

Cheers!
Tom

M.Naveed101 Member

Member since 04 October 2018

M.Naveed101Member05 October 2018 21:08:09

Hi All,
Please, anybody, tell me how I find a job while I'm outside Spain. I'm living in Dubai since 2011.
I have more than 8 years experience in Administrative Assitant and Data Entry Officer.