Dika

Hello I’m new to this forum and was hoping to get some help or advice from experiences users.

our goal is to move abroad to Barcelona and the most difficult part so far appears to be finding a suitable job. Part of the issue is that I do not speak Spanish.

Is there anyone who could refer a good recruiter/ head hunter who facilitates the job search ideally within financial services?

any tips would be much appreciated.

thank you

missile

Good luck :-)

growinspain

Have not been on the site in years but maybe you should try LinkedIn

spainrico

Assume you have an EU passport? If not then you might have other 'difficult parts'

Good luck anyway hope it works out but jobs here are always a problem.

Moses2013

Agree and normally recruiters would contact candidates. Easy to set your skills in profile section so you appear in searches. As always, a lot of locals already speak English + Catalan. Property can also be a problem if you have a limited budget.

growinspain

Maybe old school but feet on the ground and copies of your CV in the local language is one of the best ways forward...

UKMS

Ive answered your same question on the Middle East forum ….. LinkedIn is your answer

UKMS

Very old school and sorry to tell you it’s really not one of the best ways forward (whatever country) 😁

Ronnyone

Not much point in having your CV in the local language if you can't speak it, I wouldn't think

Moses2013

Another thing that's ongoing in Spain/Barcelona. Nothing new, but this was on Yahoo recently.

https://de.yahoo.com/nachrichten/mas...101339643.html“We should drive them all to hell, and it’s best to close the borders! The English and the Germans are the worst, they make our lives hell here," complains the woman in her eighties who is laboriously dragging her shopping bags home near Park Güell in Barcelona, ​​her face contorted with anger.

“We are strangers in our own house”

But nowhere in Barcelona is the annoyance as obvious as in Vila de Gràcia. If you walk through the narrow streets of the artists' quarter, you can now see them almost everywhere. The message: “TOURISTS GO HOME” is emblazoned in large letters on walls, garage doors, notice boards and monuments. The graffiti appears on almost every other street corner. “More than ever before,” the state TV broadcaster RTVE recently stated. Slogans against tourism can also be seen there on small yellow stickers and on large banners. A small radical minority, the uninitiated visitor might think. Not at all! “We all think alike,” assures Ester from the Verdi del Mig neighborhood association.

DLC

I can't recommend a recruiter in finance, but maybe you could target multinationals which might have English as a working language?

One Spanish job board is InfoJobs.net but the website language is Spanish too... Maybe you could try Glassdoor, Indeed, or Levels.fyi which are in English and are used by multinationals.

Another possibility could be to work in a multinational in the country where you are now then put in for a transfer.