Finding an English teaching job

QUOTE.   “We are both EU citizens. I am an expat(USA) “

Sorry but that is a little confusing. 

Are you an EU, a USA,  or both,   national ?

I have dual Swedish/American citizenship. My husband is Swedish. Thanks for the quick reply!

I will leave it for others who know to answer your question, however, be aware that many Spaniards have gone to other EU countries to seek work because of high unemployment in spain

Hi and welcome to the Forum.

As an EU citizen, you have the right to live and work anywhere in the EU, just that if you don't have a skill set that's in great demand, long-range job searching is always difficult.  If it's not in great demand, then you're in competition with the local market place, who almost certainly will speak Spanish.

I don't know the answer to your specific question, but I suspect that teaching will be a regulated profession, so the first thing to do is check that both your qualifications are recognised in Spain and what you need to do to perhaps qualify and register.  You could perhaps try using LinkedIn to find your peers who are already in Spain and see where you could find work.

I have a colleague who is Spanish, he moved to Ireland with his family when the economy in Spain was struggling and he needed work; he subsequently was promoted and moved to London with our company.  He recently had a life-changing event that meant he needed to decide where the future lay for him and his son; either stay in London, go back to Spain to where he would have a lot of family support to help him bring up his son alone, or maybe somewhere else; yesterday, he moved back to Ireland ........ who would have thought?

Hope this helps.

Cynic
Expat Team

Thank you for your reply!

Yes, I think competing against the local market would be a bit of a challenge. I met quite a few Spanish teachers training their English skills via Erasmus in Sweden. Their English was rudimentary at best and influenced my interest in moving to Spain. I guess I figure it cannot be that hard. One never knows. I met quite a few Spanish natives up in Stockholm who were pretty much forced to go back to Spain as Sweden's job market is quite difficult to break into since pretty much everyone, except some new immigrants, speak English fluently.  There are always a few that do make it though...

But the Spanish dream is tempting enough to take a Spanish refresher course and just go for it. Worse comes to worse, we could always go back or just early retire to Spain. I liked it here as a kid so it is like a full circle going back 😊