How to get a job in France.

For an expatriate, finding a job in France is not easy. The unemployment rate is over 9%. French employers are just not hiring, preferring to wait until the economy picks up.

Language, of course, can be a big hurdle to finding a job in France. Most employers will not hire someone who speaks broken French or French with a heavy accent. Presentation counts, and how you speak is part of your presentation, just one more thing working against you.

In general, French employers are conservative and are reluctant to hire someone like an expatriate. Most are very particular about whom they hire, searching for just the right person.

Looking for work in France is in a way like looking for work in most other countries; all newspapers have job want ads and there are a load of Internet sites.

There are, of course, some jobs that are made for an expat, language teaching, for example. But even there jobs may not be as readily available as previously thought, as most language schools expect their teachers to have excellent grammar skills. Some require some sort of certificate, TEFL for example.

 

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