Getting a job in Slovenian for an expat!
 

Hi all,

Live in UK most of my life and with a good paid job, but decided to leave UK after several visits to Slovenia.
Has anyone good any advise how to find jobs in Slovenia as Ive applied to hundreds of jobs but getting very little results.

Industry I work in is IT.

Thanks in advance.

Re: Getting a job in Slovenian for an expat!
 

How fluent are you in Slovenian? that may be a factor..

Re: Getting a job in Slovenian for an expat!
 

Just the odd word.

Re: Getting a job in Slovenian for an expat!
 

Why then, did you make the jump to Slovenia, leaving a well paid job in the UK without, at least, learning the language to a good level, it's asking for trouble.

Re: Getting a job in Slovenian for an expat!
 

The choice was simple, I have wonderful person to spend my life with.

Re: Getting a job in Slovenian for an expat!
 

Without being able to speak the language you should at least expect to have some difficulties finding a good job in the IT field and/or maybe have to take a lower qualified job where being able to speak the native language to any competent degree is not required.

Re: Getting a job in Slovenian for an expat!
 

Can't you do freelance work for UK companies? My brother is a software engineer and he worked from home 4 days a week at one stage.

Re: Getting a job in Slovenian for an expat!
 

Is there something you can do that a Slovene with local knowledge and language skills cannot offer ? There may be a niche for you but you will have to look hard !

Re: Getting a job in Slovenian for an expat!
 

Translating and teaching seems to be the jobs most end up with here.

Re: Getting a job in Slovenian for an expat!
 

Thank you all for you responses. Much appreciated!
Good health to you.

Re: Getting a job in Slovenian for an expat!
 

Turn the situation on its head. What could a Slovene do in an English-speaking country if (s)he were determined not to learn English ? Learning to communicate in speech and writing is CRUCIAL.

Re: Getting a job in Slovenian for an expat!
 

Where would you recommend looking for such jobs, please? :)

Re: Getting a job in Slovenian for an expat!
 

Two ideas come to mind. I recall that there is a multi-national which has an office in Slovenia which has a call center for clients, and they hired people with different native language skills, but I remember they had a preference for people who spoke at least two languages.

The other of course is online work that doesn't matter where you are based.