Jobs requiring Portuguese?

Zascar

My girlfriend is from Brazil and has been here 2 years - she's currently studying English and doing some part time work, but eventually she'll want to get a proper job. Very long story short she is a qualified surgical nurse but really does not want to work as a nurse over here - I need to try to help her figure out what else she wants to do - and it would make sense to take advantage of her language skills.

I'm wondering if anyone knows if there are many jobs requiring Portuguese? I did a quick google and many of them are pretty technical/advanced, I was thinking more like customer service etc.

Where would the best place be to get advice and help on this?
Thanks

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A lot of companies like Google Paypal, Amazon have multinational desks so she could try them.

Its hard work, often with high turnover.

She'd probably be better off trying to get a job as a dental nurse

annfield1978

Cartrawler?

Saint_Mel

Colleges that facilitate students / programmes from abroad sometimes look for bilingual people

Lux23

Why wouldn't she work as a nurse here?

wat24

She could look into working as a translator for the HSE, given her history as a nurse she would be well suited to a role like that.

LimeFruitGum

Translation & interpretation contracts with the HSE and other civil service bodies are put out to tender. I used to work in that field and to be honest, after the translation agency take their cut, the pay for translators & interpreters is not great. I think it is roughly € 20 an hour for interpreters and that might not include their travel time & expenses.

Once her English improves (my impression is that she isn't fully fluent yet?), she could certainly get work as a medical translator. However, there are no office jobs in this area, she would have to go freelance.

She would be expected to market herself, be familiar with translation software, negotiate her word and per-hour rates per customer, and deliver linguistically perfect and factually-accurate translations every time. You wouldn't believe the amount of translators I've come across who don't bother reading the instructions or failed to understand the source text. You just can't feck up a medical translation; if you don't understand the text, you shouldn't translate it, because the agency/end client would have your guts for garters. I'm not discouraging this career path, there is a lot of work in medical/clinical translation and medically-qualified translators can make a really good living, but I've seen a lot of people over the years who think they're able to translate but actually aren't.

A bit of a shame if she doesn't want to use her medical skills here, but if she wants to move on from that, there are games-testing roles (usually contract), the salary would be 20-30k approx.

Zascar

Thanks for the advice guys. She's does not want to work as a nurse for several reasons too long to do into, but she simply does not want to look after sick and dying people anymore. However, I'm sure there are alternative paths that can take advantage of her skills - maybe working as a technician in plastic surgery - or something similar. Maybe even a receptionist or assistant in the industry - but as said - her English is at an Intermediate level - she's fine conversationally, not perfect but good, but reading and writing is more basic. So translation is probably not an option at this stage - maybe for the future.

As Mr S said, customer service in a tech company would be perfect in my eyes, I work in a tech company but they've no jobs for Portuguese only, always require Spanish too.

Back to the nursing/medical jobs - maybe this is a topic for a separate thread but where should I start looking for something that might suit her?