12 August 2011

How to get a job?

You want to enjoy all the beauty here? Learn new culture? Your dream is to live in Italy? Your first step probably is to study the language first, secondly you start to search for a persons and make friends from Italy. Through internet, moreover meet the italians who stay in your country and support your idea so enthusiastically. So you speak italian, your mother language is english! Yeah! Go on! You can find something!
Finding a job in Italy now is not the easiest competition to win. Disoccupied italians stay here a lot! Most of them are graduated in university, and they do not want to do the "dirty" jobs anymore, what they have willingly gave to the foreigners who came to live here. Italians dream to be an archeologists, doctors, architects, advocates.Something that they think to be "higher position", they are superstars of their lives! They can be whatever they want! As well if they fail, and live at home of the parents in age of 40!
Where to start if you arrive here? Oh well, most important here are connections! Dipend a lot who you know. People can help you, if you do not know then here works a lot so called "family politics". Is possible to find something on your own of course, but good positions are always given to one whom the boss know, or moreover is a member of a family. They can fire you here, if the nephew just graduated in university and now did not find suitable job as fast as dreamed. Ahhh...But we can fire the foreigner! So you lost! Not always of course, if they have seen your work and you do your work good, they have no reason to change.
Another thing very important is the way you dress. People first meeting you observe you for 30 seconds. Your clothes, hands, make-up - very important things! Your dress must be suitable for the post where you candidate.
Italians LOVE to talk, almost about everything, but as well during the interview you cannot forget yourself. They ask about even about your family during the interview, here the conseption of it is so important (in north it is loosing it's importance), they ask all kind of things, which maybe you are not so used to talk about, you can always politley refuse to answer to their questions. Of course if they do the interview, may happen that they hire you without. Like staff for bars and restaurants.
How to get started? Firstly you must go around the city and give your CV around in every bar, restaurant and shop. More luck you'll have in turistic areas, languages are advantages, 'cause most of the italians do not speak another language, except of italian and maybe-maybe dialect (importance of the dialects in north is fading ). Find a job in shops, specially the cloth shops is really hard, either way you know someone who talk for you or you have the perfect experience, and of course it all again depends WHERE you have worked, which shop, and you must be very qualified in fashion.
Another possibility is to give as well your CV to agiencies, which here are a lot, like GiGroup, StartPeople, Kelly Services, Il Working etc. Register yourself through internet. Send your CV to companies directly even if they are not searching now, you can send it impontanously. Important is as well to send a letter that introduces you a little. Who you are, why you stay here, what are your qualities etc.
What type of works you can find? If you are not super qualified and "million" diplomas from Oxford holding in your hands, then probably you end up in some restaurant working as a waitress, dishwasher; in hotel reception; as a hostess or if your language skills are fantastic in university cities you can find a work as a teacher for students.
Italy is not easy country, not even for some italians, who decide to go and search the happiness in another country. But if you manage to survive here, you'll stronger by 1000 experiences, that it will give you.
Of course... If you do not end up as a prostitute! Sad faith, but happens with some of  girls who come to search here the happiness, job and another type of life! Money is "good", temptating and necessary for surviving!

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