What is a useful college degree to have to work in italy?

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conley39

This depends a lot on where you're coming from. If you're from the EU, you have the right to move and work freely. Coming from the US, Canada, or Australia, you'll have to have skills that can't easily be duplicated here. That will mean a degree in a marketable field. Right now in the area where I'm living marketable skills include software engineering, engineering - particularly electrical engineering, electronic board design, chemical engineering, and biomedical engineering. This area has a concentration of medical device manufacturers who are looking more for experience in the field than entry level positions.

You should consider a semester to a year in a study abroad program in Italy while you're in school. That can give you a tremendous advantage in making contacts and gaining direct experience for when you want to make the move.

It is may be easier to get a job within the US office of an international company and move here with the job than to find work here. You might also want to look into positions with the US government (consulates) or military here (assuming you're from the US).

If you're a US citizen, you can't just show up in Italy and stay for longer than 3 months. It is illegal to work here without the proper work visa or student visa.

In general in Europe, and in particular here in Italy, you have to have a job lined up in order to get a work visa before you move here from the US. You can only stay for 90 days without some type of visa (work, student, ...). You cannot apply for the visa while you're here and you'll need the proper paperwork from the company.

There are several on-line ex-pat sites that are good resources for researching moving to Italy; here are some to start with:

http://www.expatsinitaly.com/
http://www.expatsinitaly.com/before/gett...
http://www.insight-italy.com/artscsii.ht...

You can find similar sites for other countries.

http://www.xpat.nl/index1.html
http://www.expats.cz/
http://www.francethisway.com/wp/
http://www.howtogermany.com/pages/expat....

Please be aware that you will have to file taxes both here and in the US if you retain your US citizenship.

Sofia.E

The hospitality industry is big in Italy so anything to do with food, hotels etc is good.
You could teach english if you are fluent enough in Italian and are capable of teaching proper gramatical English.
fortuna buona
Sofia

Crocs rule

engineer

DaddyBoy

English...so you can teach.

Cycwynner

Youâ€™ve received some pretty good technical advice, so all I can add is a gut feeling:
Choose what you are good at, what you are most comfortable in. I know lots of guys who have a degree in something but made a break through in a completely different field, because they were good at it (a Physicist who went into Marketing, an Economist who opened a Restaurant, an Engineer who became a Novel writer). A General Degree (PolSci, Economy, Languages) is useful to have, if you cannot choose, but for the mind set, and academic discipline not the openings. Try contacting a Multinational and asking what the best openings are in the next few years. Informatics is still tops, but waning, whereas Marketing and Communication can still get you far, then the scientific fields, but that is a vocational question.