Getting a job in spain?

Question

I am Australian and i am a qualified Beauty Therapist. I am wanting to move to spain for their summer and work over there. how do i go about getting a job? either as a therapist or any work?

Answer 1

In the current climate you will need to work for yourself. Being from Australia won't be of help. If you were from the EU then you would have a right to live and work here, but there is rising unemployment and you won't find a Spanish employer willing to take you on. If you were a qualified surgeon they would take you, but beauty therapists are ten a penny here. For a summer job you could consider doing something like bar work. You may get lucky on the beauty therapy. Bear in mind, working here won't pay much. It certainly won't be what you are used to and the hours will be long.

Answer 2

It's really difficult, and getting more so.  Is Australia part of the EU through their connection with Britain?  Or are you on your own for a work permit?

From the US, we have a slew of placement organizations, and that would be your best bet.  If you search "work exchange programs", you should be able to find anything that is available.  These companies help to place people, find lodging and work visas.  Without one, you are entirely on your own, and I understand that visas are the hardest part.  

Conoco lives there and has a finger on the pulse of what's actually going on for things like unemployment and such.  I don't know whether Spain has a lack of Beauticians, but I would be willing to bet that's not a super-in-demand sort of skill, however, I'm only making an educated guess, here.

Answer 3

Unless you speak a good level of Spanish then your only real chance of finding work will be with a English speaking business.

Therefore you should head for some the popular tourist resorts and even then the only work available will be on a casual 'cash-in-hand' basis (with no contract).

Like a lot of things the hardest part is getting that first job.

Then once you are in the 'loop' you will more than likely hear of other jobs as they become available. So your best bet here is not to be too picky about the type of work you are willing to do.

Grab what you can and move on when you can, but even then its not that easy!

I'm not sure if you have the facilities to set yourself up a  mobile private client therapist but that is something you could consider, and if you do manage to get a 'day job' you can use that to start networking those clients!!

Good luck!

Answer 4

Spain has a lot of  unemployed people because of the real state crisis. You could try to teach English but you are not going to make a lot of money.