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Finding work in Europe

  • 04-04-2015 12:19am
    #1
    highlydebased
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,472 ✭✭✭


    Looking for work in marketing/communications and thinking of looking beyond UK and Ireland- has anybody any experience finding and getting work in say Belgium/Netherlands/Germany in these areas? Any advice about how to proceed would be helpful.


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  • #2
    mahamageehad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,673 ✭✭✭mahamageehad


    I'm currently doing some interviews with a German company. Do you speak any languages?


  • #3
    Jim2007
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 10,605 Mod ✭✭✭✭Jim2007


    highlydebased wrote: »
    Looking for work in marketing/communications and thinking of looking beyond UK and Ireland- has anybody any experience finding and getting work in say Belgium/Netherlands/Germany in these areas? Any advice about how to proceed would be helpful.

    Well to have a realistic chance of getting into something like marketing on mainland Europe, you'd need to speak the local language at at least B1 level. So French, German, Dutch or Flemish then???


  • #4
    Stingerbar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 260 ✭✭Stingerbar


    Not in these fields, but Belgium has a large amount of English speaking companies, so there's a chance you could get by without French/Flemish

    Have a look on monster.be


  • #5
    Jim2007
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 10,605 Mod ✭✭✭✭Jim2007


    Stingerbar wrote: »
    Not in these fields, but Belgium has a large amount of English speaking companies, so there's a chance you could get by without French/Flemish

    Unlikely unless you are in a senior position, in the lower levels you need to be able to communicate with the target audience that is the whole point of the job!


  • #6
    Woshy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭Woshy


    My friend moved to Berlin for work and we all thought he was mad because he doesn't speak German. He's learning now of course, but he just decided he wanted to live in Berlin so moved from New Zealand with nothing lined up.

    He got a job no problem where he only needs to speak English which seems strange to me but there you go, he works in software development though where a lot of work is done in English anyway.


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  • #7
    Jim2007
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators Posts: 10,605 Mod ✭✭✭✭Jim2007


    Woshy wrote: »
    He got a job no problem where he only needs to speak English which seems strange to me but there you go, he works in software development though where a lot of work is done in English anyway.

    Not strange at all, many, many software houses have English as the working language. But the difference to the OP is that software developers have little interaction with the general public in their daily work. Generally speaking it is difficult to find developers, so you take them for where ever you find them and of course you need a common working language.


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