Something for Everyone
coming to the Canaries
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Lanzarote Employment
If you're a good salesman with experience of any kind and you're British, Dutch, German or Scandinavian, or speak any of those languages, you'll get a job as a PR (public relations). If you're not very good at being a PR, your boss will soon discover this and you'll have to be a PR in another establishment here but there are plenty of timeshare resorts, restaurants and bars that use the services of PRs. The timeshare or holiday ownership resorts have vacancies within the resorts themselves for sales staff.
To be a PR you need to be able to stop tourists on the street and in whatever seconds or minutes you have with them, convince them to try your product or service. This would be to eat in your restaurant, drink in your bar or go see the holiday resort you're working for. Salaries are on a commission basis, set wage or a combination of both and can be quite high if you're good. You don't need to arrange interviews until you get here and the best way to find restaurant or bar work this way is walking around the shopping centres and asking. To work for a timeshare company, go to one and ask for their personnel office, any of the "promotion" guys around town can tell you which and where they are.
Restaurants and bars are often looking for waiting staff, especially promotion staff to work at the door and "pull in the punters". Again, walk around the shopping centres and ask the establishments individually.
Tour operators are another option but normally you'll need to apply and train with them in your own country, before coming to Lanzarote. If you have previous experience and a knowledge of the Spanish language, it's worth contacting them direct once you're here for casual work.
If you speak fluent Spanish then you have a huge advantage as very few of the foreign nationals working here do. You could almost choose the profession you want to work for.
A very rough guide to the cost of living, wages would be around 180,000 including tips, per month. A studio apartment would be around 65,000 or 70,000, a 1 bed flat starts from around 90,000 and a 2 bed from around 110,000.
So to summise, if you want to live and work here, my advice is to come for a holiday here first to find a job. Try not to come out here on a one-way ticket with a "promise of a job". Have something more definate or a back-up plan too. I don't know of anywhere that would employ anyone from overseas unless they were actually on the island to apply in person. Book a cheap package holiday so you have a place to stay and a flight home (just in case) then go round the bars, restaurants etc and ask for work. To rent an apartment to live you would need to be on the island also.
If you're a resident of the EEC/Europe, then you won't need any special work permit, otherwise check with your local Spanish embassy for requirements. European nationals do need to register with the police here if living here for three months or longer. Take out an insurance policy to cover you for medical treatment as that can be difficult to get and expensive without cover, unless in cases of emergency.
I don't know of any agencies to put you in touch with, I don't even know if any businesses here use them or would employ staff that aren't already here. Neither do I know when particular businesses are looking for staff so I doubt if I can help you any more than with the information I have here. We don't have any employment agencies here so newspapers and word of mouth are the main ways to get a job.
A final offer of help for everyone from a local agency!
Employment Lanzarote is a service that introduces quality staff to suitable employers all over Lanzarote. Whatever your skills, background or ambitions they will try to match you with your perfect employer. If you are seeking work in Lanzarote and require assistance, guidance or just information please contact Employment Lanzarote at employmentlanzarote@yahoo.co.uk
That's my advice and knowledge on the subject - period. If you discover anything I could add, please get in touch and let me know. Otherwise, there's nothing more I can add. For some reason, dozens of people are emailling me every day for my advice but it's already here.
