Working in Paris

bill.barry

Hi, i'm thinking of moving to Paris for a bit, become fluent in french and experience the city. Does anyone have any contacts or advice for getting work there?

baker59

Hey, saw your pm but decided to respond here.
It depends on the work really but a good place to start is fusac. They have an online version of their magazine with a lot of info. Personally if you don't have french, it is difficult to get a job. I'm working in a bar until I can confidently say I'm fluent. Bar french is easy enough as it is quite repetitive but I'm slowly progressing in the French conversation other than someone just ordering a drink.

There is a previous thread where I talked about the difficulty of finding accommodation, it is a lot harder than back home. Instead of you choosing from about 3 places you visited, the landlords choose from about 40 people who want to take it. I'm not in this situation but an ideal situation for someone wanting to learn the language is a house share with french people. House sharing is not as common but it does exist. Look up appartager, it's like daft.

My best advise to you though is to have about e1000-e2000 savings before coming. You may be in a hostel for a while at the beginning unless you are lucky and when you find a place, you'll need money for a deposit.

Whenever someone asked for advise on Paris, the person giving it (me included in this) always seems to come out sounding negative but it is a great city once you get the hang of things.

franc 91

Yes there is the other thread - have you looked at that yet? In the FUSAC Employment pages they're looking for people to babysit or teach english or work in bars (among other things) - there's O'Sullivans for example
http://osullivans-pubs.com/index2.php?lang=eng&id=appform
http://www.fusac.fr
and there's also St Christopher's Inns/Belushi's who are also in Paris (I don't know if they are looking for staff specifically for Paris, but have a look at their website anyway)
http://www.st-christophers.co.uk/about
but of course it depends entirely on what you are looking for (and having French is obviously useful)
And I forgot to mention
http://www.expatica.com.fr/
http://paris.angloinfo.com/

bill.barry

thanks for the replies. french is ok but not fluent. thinking of doing a tefl course as teaching english seems to be a good way to get work there...

kelijryan

there is a french for dummies book with a cd and it is suprising how good it actually is and not very expensive either maybe have a look into that

baker59

Does anyone in Paris have any contacts that can translate a birthcert?
Or how does it work? Is it simply a translation or something official? Got quoted a price of e100 which I thought was a bit much.

Any help advise would be greatly appreciated.

franc 91

Yes that is a bit expensive - your birth certicate has to be translated by un traducteur assermenté and the translation has to be dated, so that it's only valid for, I think, it's three months. I went to the Cabinet Galith Portal for mine as they are quite centrally located in Paris and the terms were very reasonable - 7 rue Narcisse Diaz 75016 Paris - (you go to the RER C station Javel and then go across the bridge over the Seine) You can also send it by post to Karen Renel-King who is in Amiens, if it's not too urgent.
http://www.certifiedfrenchtranslation.com/
Salut
Franc
and I forgot to mention that you have to make a decent, same size photocopy of it as well, which also needs to authenticated.