Seeking a job

hughesga

Hi,

I have a friend who is from Brazil. He and his wife are both desperately looking for jobs. They are allowed to work part time as they are studying part time. Their English language skills are basic - intermediate. A cleaning job or manual handling job would be ideal. Does anybody have any recommendations about where to apply to these jobs in Dublin?

Equality

Cleaning jobs = agencies.

They could try putting ads in the local shops, a lot of people want cheap childcare/cheap self employed carers for the elderly or disabled, and you don't need to speak English.

hoodini89

How would you not need English whilst caring for the elderly/children? Surely that would be the top priority as how else would they commincate properly? :S
I would suggest your friends apply for any cleaning jobs on all the job sites and perhaps put up a few ads in shops.

Equality

English is not required.

I'm not saying it is good for the child. One acquaintance of mine had a foreign au pair and expressed surprise when the kids had very poor English. They had to go to Speech and Language therapy, no real problem, just that no one ever really talked to them. The mom was absent for about 14 hours 5 days a week, once you factored in the commute. The au pair hated the job, because the hours were so long, so she didn't really talk to the kids or interact. She just fed, changed and parked in front of the tv. This, oddly enough to the great surprise of the mom, led to very poor language development.

Another pal had kids who were more fluent in Polish than in English - their childminder did talk, but only in her native language. Excellent at minding kids, just did not have much English, and saw no point in speaking English to infants anyway, as they were learning to talk. Those kids were a pleasure to deal with, the childminder was really good.

phoenix999

Friend of mine is Brazilian and he managed to get regular cleaning work in a Dublin hospital through an agency. He is never short of work. And he's only been in Ireland less than a year