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suggest a job - basic english required!

  • 07-01-2009 11:55am
    #1
    giddybootz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 867 ✭✭✭


    Hi all,

    A friend of mine is looking for a job. she speaks Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese, Italian fluently. however, her spoken English is basic (she understands a bit more)

    She understands that she wont get a job that she is qualified for until her English is fleunt but what can she go for in the mean time?

    we have tried the supermarkets....any other suggestions appreciated!!

    Thanks for your helps!!


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  • #2
    ntlbell
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    translator?


  • #3
    biko
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    Call centre in a Spanish/Italian/etc team supporting the Med.
    Hardly any English required if team leader is also foreign.

    Kitchen staff.


  • #4
    AARRRGH
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    Considering how terrible the job market is at the moment, she should take anything she can get.

    Call-centre is probably her best option.


  • #5
    giddybootz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 867 ✭✭✭giddybootz


    AARRRGH wrote: »
    Considering how terrible the job market is at the moment, she should take anything she can get

    well yeah it was kinda my point that she would take what she can get. :p

    call center is a good suggestion - thanks!

    any others?


  • #6
    Mrs OBumble
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,288 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    Cleaning.

    Child-care for a family whose first language is any of the ones she speaks.

    McDonalds/Supermacs/Burger king etc

    Hospitality (bar, restaurant etc) in place that has lots of tourists

    Kitchen-hand

    Cinema


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  • #7
    corcaigh07
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    sounds like she would be a call centre's dream come true. she could do very well provided the right opportunity comes along. Where are you based? RCI in Mahon, Cork look for employees on a regular basis and while the pay isnt huge, they treat employees well. Airport would be another great call.


  • #8
    galah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,215 ✭✭✭galah


    I'm sorry, but what makes you think that you do not need any English to work in a call center or in any Irish company? Obviously, all the day-to-day stuff will be done in English, beginning with HR procedures, meetings, induction, IT problems, and so on and so on...

    Then again, based on experiences here, a lot of foreign bar staff/shop assistants/cashiers do not have sufficient English either, and have to deal with the public (I still don't get this, but that's my problem) - so that might be worth a try.

    Or try the big factories (medical companies such as Boston or Medtronic here in Galway, for example) while jobs are still going.


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