It will not pick up whilst everyone keeps telling folk not to come. Everyone's painting such a bleak picture of the area..

Who is telling folk not to come to Benidorm Benidorm needs the tourists to come and provide work for the many who are currently unemployed. What Benidorm doesn't need is more people coming to look for work as there just isn't enough work.

I think that should be rephrased Benidorm doesn't need the usual type of Brits with no Spanish going there looking for work in only English speaking jobs - of which you say are sparce.

If you were a Brit with perfect or near perfect Spanish, there's no reason no to go there as having had a quick glance there seems to be a whole range of jobs on offer. Native English speakers with a good knowledge of Spanish are highly valued by Spanish employers - as no matter how many classes they send their Spanish staff to, they know they will never match absolute fluency of a decently educated Native English speaker.

Ah...but the person who started this thread was talking about looking for bar/cafe/hotel work. As for speaking Spanish I have friends who are fluent in Spanish...as in having been to school here and speaking Spanish since their young years. Some of whom are still finding difficulty finding work.

Seems to me maybe that some of us should take just a little notice of someone who actually lives there and can see whats going on Otherwise whats the point of asking questions here in the first place

Not so on the CDS. I know a lot of Anglo-Spanish families. Some bi-lingual people cannot get jobs either.

I'm sure I specified decently educated

to live here is hard , and tell people what is happen here , PROBLEM is cash not much off it around .....

tourists is what we need but when you have hotels pubs restaurants that been over charging over last few years now dropping there prices it now good time to take a holiday in spain

Hi, just back from Madrid. Judging by how packed the metro was this morning at 8.30, most people there still have a job - and the cafe bars were as busy as ever. However outside the capital, many car plants are like the UK ones ie in deep freeze mode. If we're talking about somewhere like Benidorm, then as mentioned above, it depends on how many tourists come this year. Germans and Swedes, as well as Brits. You never know, there may be a big influx of Poles! I suspect that deep down no-one really knows.

some off the Thread here like " Just ONE SENTENCE why we should STAY in Spain ! " , "Successfull in Spain." , "Finding jobs in Spain " , and last "People Leaving and handing keys back to the bank"

donst paint a good picture

and dont get me started on the tourists airport figgers are down 10 - 17 % in area , SPANISH tourism board promoted a picture of an Australian beach , freefall, admits minister , tourism industry The minister for tourism industry Canary Islands ,

Madrid capital of Spain. under 4,million is population 2007 third-most populous municipality in the European Union , Metro easy way to get around Madrid , lot do used it , god hope all have jobs there are unemployed jump up 7-8 million mark

jurdy

I read in the daily free 'Metro' newspaper in Sevilla recently, that the Spanish Army has seen record numbers of potential new recruits, due to the fact that even Spaniards are finding it hard to get a job, such is the current level of unemployment in Spain!

We went to a charity 'do' on Tuesday in Benidorm for a popular guy who worked in Benidorm doing various jobs and died of cancer. He was well liked. As a result lots of local singers and musicians gave their services for free and it was a great day out. A lot of money was raised (and I won 2 bottles of whisky on the raffle ) Because of this thread I asked around and speaking to the people there who turned up to support the event it was confirmed to me that there is not much work in Benidorm at the moment. So there you have it....from the horses mouth.

You'll get that answer no matter where you ask around these days. Things are bad all over and people just like to complain.