Looking for a job: Customer service/sales jobs

Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2018 5:08pm

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Hi,

My partner and I are looking to move over to Spain with our 3 boys, in the jalon valley area. We both have family here and I also use to live here, 8 years ago.

I want to see if anyone knows of any jobs that I could possible go into.

I currently work at an accountancy firm in the inbound sales team. I have 6 years experience in this job and an NVQ in customer service.

I also have experience in care work, I studied adult nursing at bucks new university and worked as a home carer for a few years.

Does anybody know of any work around this area I could get into.

Ps my Spanish is basic.

Thank you for your help.

Samantha.

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Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2018 12:11am

killjoy

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Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2018 12:11am

If your boys are under +/- 17 better think it over. Such a change won't be for good. Extreme high unemployment for under 35s.

Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2018 2:54pm

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Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2018 2:54pm

Would agree with the above. Also, unless you have fluent Spanish, you are most unlikely to obtain accountancy work - and the qualifications would not necessarily be useful here.

The home caring situation may possibly be useful,there are a couple of UK run care agencies, but I don’t think they ‘employ’ people as such, it’s all sub-contract for which you would need to be legally registered as ‘autonomo’,together with all the tax and social security requirements.To be employed in a care home, you would need more than basic Spanish.

Your boys will struggle being put straight into a Spanish school, there will be little available in the way of help; the alternatives are the foreign private schools, the fees for which aren’t cheap. this will probably be very unfair to them. Children at a young age do integrate into the Spanish state system because they learn Spanish quickly, but I personally know children who came at 10 plus and found that they were floundering for a long while and feel now that their education was impeded. There is also a huge unemployment problem here

Unless you have highly specialised and desirable qualifications, it will be difficult to find any meaningful work I am afraid, the days of deciding just to come and live in Spain, with little means of support, are mainly those of myth and legend.