Many of you will know that I am currently looking for employment. A big thanks to all my referees should be added at this point!
So it should be fairly easy, right?
Well in France I have a snowflakes chance in hell; the obvious giveaway being my terrible French and foreign accent. Anyway, I'm not sure, after everything the Frenchies have put me through, whether I can stand to have to go through the whole job fiasco with them - and then the akwardness around the water cooler. Bugger that! They have had enough chances (que the boulangerie, gym, post office, learn to drive...). I am tired and in need of a rest of sorts.
So my first break came from the neighbour teling me about the Swiss Factories and how they recruit in neighbouring departments of France and even put on buses (if you live closely enough). Then I had a look on line and my eyes nearly popped out at the sums they offered for even simple office work. Cool. Then the fact that English is a main business language (unlike France where, if your English is not spoken with a French accent, the French will simply say they don't understand).
All bright and perhaps things are looking up. I went on a jaunt or two to Switzerland to meet the agencies that were going to help me into my new life...
Um, first you need to find someone sympatheic enough to put you on the agency books, then kind enough to offer you feedback when you call to ask where the job offers are. It's a really tight market in Switzerland but they don't tell you until they have added you to their books and nabbed your referees for future contact. After that, if you have the indecency to call they are most put out by your over-eagerness to work. I've finally figured out the equation! Work + Switzerland = an absolute privilege.
Of course there are some great job boards out there and as with anywhere in the world you need to suss out the genuine jobs from those designed to suck you into an agency (see above).
Last but not least, the perfect job when it finally comes along has the following 'necessary skill' at the bottom of the job description:
Trilingual, French, English and German a must
Arrrggggh
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