3156 Getting a job in Italy

Hi,

I am looking to relocate to Italy and obviously/unfortunately I will need to work.

From reading this forum, it does not seem very easy to get a job. If anyone has a success story please let me know your secret.

I have cut and pasted a couple of the websites people have recommended so thanks for that but is there anything else I could do. I plan to bombard my CV to every employment agent in Italy (if that is possible) and hope for the best.

I am fairly qualified, with a degree and 7 years experience working for investment banks and the financial sector but I have very, very basic Italian writing and speaking skills.

Any help would be cool.
Thanks,
Adam

Category
Cercasi Lavoro - Employment Questions

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 04/05/2006 - 05:55

Adam, the best thing that you can do, is to improve your Italian language skills, before blasting cv's to all and sundry, if, for instance, you were to be contacted directly from your cv, but, couldn't answer basic queies in Italian, you would have blown your chances... Good Luck.:)

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 04/05/2006 - 06:41

Cheers for the reply.

In your opinion, would you say it was difficult/impossible to get a job in Italy without speaking/writing Italian.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 04/05/2006 - 06:52

[QUOTE=AdamO]Cheers for the reply.

In your opinion, would you say it was difficult/impossible to get a job in Italy without speaking/writing Italian.[/QUOTE]

Funny, I was just speaking to a German guy I work with, about his girlfriend who is looking for work here. Her Italian is fair, but she says that she can not even get a job in a bar.

I would add that not only has your Italian got to be good, but you also need to know someone that can get you a job. I hate to say it, but it is just the way it works here.

But nothing is impossible, or so they say :-)

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 04/05/2006 - 09:22

[QUOTE=AdamO]Cheers for the reply.

In your opinion, would you say it was difficult/impossible to get a job in Italy without speaking/writing Italian.[/QUOTE]

Pretty much, ask yourself, if you were hiring someone to work for you, they send you thir details, you are impressed with their credentials, so you ring them up and ask them a couple of questions, they answer you in Chinese, at least you think they answer you, errrm.......

Also, the other problem which Mark has touched upon is that the second cousin of the man who rents you your office space is equally qualified, and speaks your language, there is still a lot of "who you know" here, it's not impossible to get work, but you will have to try really hard, and, honestly, not being fluent won't help at all.