EMPLOYMENT IN SPAIN

On the dole

Unemployment in Almendralejo

The number of unemployed people has almost doubled since the recession started

Unemployed Youths

Reasons for unemployment

● The effect of the housing bubble

● Temporary employment

● Not enough growth (euro crisis and Spanish debt)

What steps should be taken?

Education:● Flexible education programmes to reduce early school

leaving.● Introduction of Dual Vocational Education facilitating the

transition to the labour market.Labour Market:● Creation of a single permanent contract to avoid

temporariness.● Promote recruitment of the unemployed● Programmes to encourage: Self-employment and entrepeneurship Competitiveness

Jobs in demand in Spain today

● Hydrologist

● Network Architect

● Multimedia Artist

● Quality Control Manager

● Environmental Health & Safety Specialist

● Speech Language Pathologist

● Biomedical Engineer

Job profiles

·Job: Export manager and blender for a local winery.

Qualifications: Degree in Spanish and French.

Skills needed: languages, understanding of different tastes according to countries, social skills,understanding of how the wines change from the tank to the bottle.

Training: experience is continuous training

Matthew Stewart

Job profiles

Job: Exporting producer of organic paté and foie grass from pigs and geese raised in semi-wild state.

Qualifications: Technical Certificate inChemistry.

Skills needed: Entrepreneurial skills, being ambitious, hard-working, good at selling quality products, IT skills

Training: Experience and English for work relations

Eduardo Sousa

Job profiles

Job: He works as an engineer for NASA through a programme of the Spanish Astrobiology Centre

Qualifications: Degree in Telecommunications engineering

Skills needed: computer/technical skills, teamwork, flexibility to live abroad, motivation and hard work.

Training:Training courses on aerospace engineering and master degree in Satellite Technology.

Isaías Carrasco

Job profilesJob: Quality manager in a company specialized in corrugated cardboard.

Qualifications: Degree in Physics/engineering.

Skills needed: flexibility and adaptability to different tasks, interpersonal abilities, technical literacy, management skills andbeing disciplined.

Training: Continuous trainingwithin the company according tostaff needs.

Aitor Toyos

Tips for job seekers

● DON'T GIVE UP

● WORK HARD TO HAVE A BASIC QUALIFICATION

● LEARN AT LEAST TWO FOREIGN LANGUAGES

● BE PREPARED

● BE FLEXIBLE

● IMPROVE YOUR COMMUNICATION SKILLS

● BE OPEN AND ADAPTABLE

● KEEP TRACK OF NEW JOB OFFERS