What does it take for an American to work in Spain?

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magidge

You don't mention whether or not you speak Spanish?

Either way you will have a problem...but if you don't speak Spanish it will be even more difficult.

It's not the best time to be looking for employment in Spain at the moment!

Una Sirena en el Lago Oscuro

I see I'm not the only American who's dying to live in Spain. :)

I've read that international business is a good field. I don't know much about it but if you were to work for a company that has an office in Spain you could ask to be transferred abroad. The American company would help you deal with all the bureaucracy and all the crap that goes with it.

There may be other options, I have the same problem, originally the goal was for me to stay in Spain long enough to get my TEFL certification and then return to Mexico and get work down there... but the more I hear about Spain the more I wanna stay there forever!

Everybody accuses me of making this up but I had Spanish ancestors and it just kills me that I've sacrificed all my life just to go to Spain for a couple months and if they hadn't come to America I might have been Spanish!! Me siento fatal...

Espero que te haya ayudado, hope I've helped!

Hey, I nearly forgot.

Are you familiar with this website?

www.transitionsabroad.com

They may have some ideas.

also go online and type in Spain and expatriate and see what you can google.

Suerte chica. :D

Jane S

You probably couldn't get a job as an English teacher right now, either.

Ummmm. A WAAAAAY better economy!

Try CIEE (okay, mostly English teaching) or just search Work in Spain.

You will need a Visa, and probably have to get it on your own, though some of those placement agencies will help you find one. They will be sure you have one before they send you...if they are any good, as their reputation rest upon getting LEGAL employees.

Problem is, right now, the economy is SOOOOOOOO rough in Spain, that few places are hiring, and the government isn't issuing a lot of those visas.

Â¡Buena Suerte!

Oh, yeah. Ability to speak Spanish is a huge must, too, as already mentioned.

carol p

at present with nearly four million people unemployed construction industry on its backside and believe me there is no pc rubbish here any jobs going the Spanish get them whether you speak spanish or not they look after there own expats that have lived here for years are going home in there droves i,m ok retired so don't need to work i was taking to a spaniard only last night who works at malaga airport he told me that the tourists are not coming because of the strength of the euro and that the car parks are running short of parking spaces because of car left there and the owners gone home and due to spanish car registration laws no one can or will move them best stay where you are for now

Flicka

First you have to get a visa and this will only entitle you to visit Spain for 3 months. In reality you can get away with being here much longer.. In the larger cities such as Madrid there are a lot of large American corporations setting up so it would be easier to get a job through one of these. Being a non EU you are treated in just the same way as imigrants from Morocco, and this is not very good. To work here legally for a US citizen is very difficult as the paperwork requirements are ridiculously strict and complex, they seem to go out of their way to make it virtually impossible (unless you are married to a Spanish resident).
Jobs don't go to the Spanish only. I have always been employed here and have worked for a couple of Spanish lawyers who could have employed a Spanish girl. In fact, the Spanish are complaining that a lot of Eastern Europeans are taking up the few jobs in the construction industry. Eastern Europeans are often employed in the tourist trade as they normally learn to speak Spanish and don't seem to have a problem learning other languages that are needed in the tourist industry.

However if you want to work in a totally Spanish customer orientated business, a foreigner would find it very difficult especially if you are not fluent in Spanish.

iosifdragos1977

You should chouse Ibiza...itÂ´s easy to find work there,better payment and is very good that you speak english...i live there and is good...the rest of spain has very big economic problems...

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