Jobs in Spain - What you need to know

You've finally decided where to live, you've found your ideal home and all you need now is a job. The problem is that it's in another country, Spain. Finding a new job is difficult and stressful enought at the best of times, but when you're trying to find work abroad from hundreds of miles away your job hunt can start to become extremely frustrating. The first thing you'll notice when looking for jobs in Spain is that there aren't many employment agencies like there are in the UK. In fact there are few and far between. Employment/ recruitment websites in Spain are still in their infancy and many companies recruit either by word of mouth or in newspaper classifieds. There's also the language factor to take into account. If you don't speak Spanish (Castellano in the south and Catalan in the Barcelona regions) then you'll be at a disadvantage and your options become limited when looking for work in Spain. Here on the Costa del Sol it seems thtat the majority of English-speaking jobs tend to be for commission-only sales people, and yes, generally in the cut-throat real estate market. For most paid jobs in Spain there is fierce competition and salaries are much lower the in the UK. Yes, you won't get rich in Spain working for someone else. For example, if you have a good IT job in the UK earning say,