This message was originally intended for the spain-english egroups message boards (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spain-english) for teaching English in Spain. Thought it would help your members as well!


Hello all...

For anyone who has visited The Expatriate Cafe's website on Teaching English in Spain, it's been awhile since I've updated the information. It's soon to be done as is the cleaning up of this forum like I stated about a month ago (still trying to make time to do it).

Anyway, I noticed that some of you still have questions and concerns dealing with actually getting a job...namely those of you that threw caution to the wind, hopped on a plane and landed in Spain.

Like I've said before, North Americans have a much tougher time finding legal employment due to the fact that Spain has it's own pool of perfectly good English teachers from the British sector of the EU. Nonetheless, academies still hire Americans because the demand for teachers in Spain still exceeds the supply.

The problem is two-fold though:
Accepting the idea that you might have to take dribs and drabs of work and probably cannot land that 30-hour a week career job, AND dealing with the fact that your employment will probably not be legal.

If you are the nerveous type, scare easily, are a law-abiding citizen and/or have a guilty conscience about working this way, THIS IS NOT THE ADVENTURE FOR YOU.
For N. Americans (unless you are a serious career person who is willing to go the LONG and expensive legal route) the adventure of teaching English in Spain is a risk. It's not a certainty. So please...if you understand the above concept, you'll be the better for it.

The reason you hear people say: "There's a ton of work here!" is because they are fearless, positive, aggressive (or perhaps I should say determined) souls that understand, through common-sense, wisdom and a bit of experience that finding work in Spain requires daring. So, you must ask yourself...have you sent out your CV/resume and are now waiting for your phone to ring? Or are you knocking on doors, putting ads in the local paper and meeting as many people as possible so as to network? The latter usually works best.

If you need references or leads to possible teaching positions, THIS IS WHAT THIS FORUM IS FOR!
PLEASE!!! If you have a job in Spain TELL US! Perhaps the academy or institute you work for is looking for more teachers. There are also a ton of other resources depending on where you are located in Spain...I, personally, know nothing about Barcelona. But as far as Madrid is concerned, there are about 10 English language magazines that post job opportunities or that could offer clues to jobs...Segunamano (www.segundamano.com), being the biggest Spanish classified paper that I know of. I'm sure Barcelona has its own resources.

And as always, there's the Expatriate Cafe, spain-english egroups message boards (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/spain-english) and MadridMan's Yankee Homepage and message boards. And as always too, you can write to me at tracy@linuxfan.com


Hope this helps and clears up some of your concerns.

Tracy Moral


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