Help me find a job for my cousin in law....

syklops

Hi,

Ok so my soon-to-be cousin-in-law just arrived off the plane from a small eastern european country. She has finished her Degree in Linguistics, only waiting on her thesis to be approved(or what ever you do to theses), and she is looking for a job. She has applied to loads of places, but due to her lack of experience has only been offered cleaning positions so far. Her reason for coming here is to improve her english more than to make money, but there are not many oppertunites to improve your english if you are just cleaning offices.

Does anyone know anything that might suit her?

We are spending days hanging out on irishjobs.ie/monster.ie but other than the gratuitous cleaner/ carer jobs, we are not coming up with anything with meat. She has now gone down a notch by press ganging the various pubs/restaurants in the vicinty, and hopefully, will get something soon, but I was wondering does anyone know of any work/jobs which may suit a hardworking(and attractive) Polish graduate who speaks 4 languages and can get her point across in about 3 more?

Thanks in advance!

Claire121

See my recent post - it's very very difficult for language graduates in this country. Would she be interested in call centre work? It's better than waitressing IMO and she could use the languages.

syklops

Yes we have applied to a few call centres aswell. She has had one interview, but was turned down for lack of experience.

Claire121

Does she have any work experience at all?

damnyanks

Maybe a job in a pub picking up glasses

watna

Has she looked at retail temping?

I can't remember the name of the agency.. maybe it was mary kelly or something like that. You could have a look on google. They send retail staff in to department stores or on promotions. If she's well presented and groomed and her English is to a certain standard that could be a good bet and is great for meeting people and improving English.

Maybe even promotions companies in general would be good.

Feelgood

Claire121 wrote: »

See my recent post - it's very very difficult for language graduates in this country. Would she be interested in call centre work? It's better than waitressing IMO and she could use the languages.

+1 Call Centre.

Ebay,
Paypal,
Amazon

There are mountains of them in Dublin. Monies aren't great but at least its a start?

eth0_

WTF did she come to Ireland without having already organised a job?

Did you not think to tell her that the job situation here is getting quite bad and there is a recession starting?

Epic Tissue

If she has german or spanish she could try localisation with games

http://jobs.ie/Jobs.aspx?Categories=&Regions=&Keywords=activision&Submit=Search

311

Given the current situation ,I think new business has the best chance in Ireland now. Maybe she should look for secetarial work in a new buisness ,she'd be part of something that is just started and have a better chance at making an impression.

I'm thinking of starting off on my own in a while and I'd need someone reliable to take care of the phone and booking work in.

syklops

eth0_ wrote: »

WTF did she come to Ireland without having already organised a job?

Did you not think to tell her that the job situation here is getting quite bad and there is a recession starting?

Take it easy. There is no need for language. Besides, we really did not think it was going to be so difficult. We had verbal agreements with 2 of my friends who said it would be no problem to get her into their companies, and both fell through. If she cant get one then so be it, but I find that difficult to believe. When people say there are no jobs, what they mean is, there are not jobs they fancy doing. big difference.

Also, I wish people would stop talking about this recession that is coming. We will talk ourselves into one if we are not careful.

As for the other ideas, does anyone know any pubs that are hiring?

Same As

Could i also suggest...Call centre work/Customer Service work??

Linguists appear to be in demand for a variety of positions on Jobs dot ie anyway....

syklops

we've tried a few. Unfortunately because so many places have moved their call centres to india, there are alot of experienced call centre staff floating around who are preferable over a girl with no call centre experience. There are also alot of people coming into the country who are multilingual which makes things more tricky, but we will keep looking.

Thanks for your help everyone thus far, and if you hear of anything, please let me know.

Same As

As a matter of interest,what region are you looking for the job in?

Claire121

Are you sure you're looking in the right places? I got a call centre job last year with no experience and I know that place is always looking for staff, and a mate of mine just got a job in one with no experience. I can't imagine how she can't find anything. Then again, I'm in Dublin, where are you located?

syklops

Im in south dublin city.

WHen I asked for help getting her the job, i didnt mean people would say "Call centres", "In a Butchers" etc. I meant people would actually give me names of places they knew were hiring.

While I am respectively grateful to the help you have all given, phrases like "there is a place I know that is always looking for staff", don't help me unless you tell me the name.

Thanks

kmick

To be fair its hard to find a job for someone else. While Im sure your relation appreciates your help tell her to arrive with 100 CV's, a comfortable pair of walking shoes, a knapsack with a flask and a lunchbox and enough money to last her for 2 months.

Then whne she gets here she can pound the streets looking for a job

syklops

she is here, and is doing that as we speak.

Gone West

I'm getting a very definete "Ireland owes her a job" buzz from you!

Thumpette

In all fairness skylops, I PMed you with a name of a company who are hiring, and who I know would certainly give her an interview anyway and you told me you werent interested. Jobs are out there but might not be as easy as a couple of years ago, perhaps its time to be more open minded?

syklops

@Thumpette, and I told you I had bad dealings with them. The last time I dealt with them, lawyers were involved, so I am not using them.

I am not saying Ireland owes her a job. All i asked was did anyone know of any jobs. I meant specific jobs, not industries, which might suit her.

Thumpette, gave me one company name but I do not want to deal with them again. But thank you for making the effort.

Clearly no one knows of any jobs that would suit the skills I mention, therefore, I call on the mods to close the thread.

Thanks again for your help.

Claire121

While I am respectively grateful to the help you have all given, phrases like "there is a place I know that is always looking for staff", don't help me unless you tell me the name.

Well this crowd advertise about 3 times a week on jobs.ie so it makes me wonder how hard you're looking if you haven't come across them. I came back to Ireland from the States and it took me about 10 minutes to visit jobs.ie and apply for a job with them, was called for interview the next day and got the job the day after that. All I did was search for multilingual jobs in Dublin. I'm getting a definite vibe here that she is not trying very hard because these jobs are dime a dozen. There are at least 3 companies I know of in East Point Business Park alone who are always looking for staff. Has she tried Oracle? A few of my friends have been hired there recently. What about UPS? I know it's more difficult now than last year but I find it hard to believe that an educated multilingual girl can't get a call centre job. We can try to help but ultimately she has to help herself. I feel like we're missing something here. Either she isn't applying for enough jobs (she should be applying for at least 30 a day and getting a few callbacks out of it) or there's some reason people don't want to employ her (absolutely no experience? Bad CV?). It's hard to help without knowing the details.