1. EMPLOYMENT
IN SPAIN

2. On the dole

3. Unemployment in Almendralejo
The number of unemployed people has almost doubled since the recession
started

4. Unemployed Youths

5. Reasons for unemployment
● The effect of the housing bubble
● Temporary employment
● Not enough growth (euro crisis and Spanish
debt)

6. What steps should be taken?
Education:
● Flexible education programmes to reduce early school
leaving.
● Introduction of Dual Vocational Education facilitating the
transition to the labour market.
Labour Market:
● Creation of a single permanent contract to avoid
temporariness.
● Promote recruitment of the unemployed
● Programmes to encourage:
Self-employment and entrepeneurship
Competitiveness

7. Jobs in demand in Spain today
● Hydrologist
● Network Architect
● Multimedia Artist
● Quality Control Manager
● Environmental Health & Safety Specialist
● Speech Language Pathologist
● Biomedical Engineer

8. Job profiles
·Job:
Export manager and
blender for a local winery.
Qualifications: Degree in
Spanish and French.
Skills needed: languages,
Matthew Stewart
understanding of different tastes according to
countries, social skills,understanding of how
the wines change from the tank to the bottle.
Training: experience is continuous training

9. Job profiles
Job: Exporting producer of organic paté
and foie grass from pigs and geese raised
in semi-wild state.
Qualifications: Technical Certificate in
Chemistry.
Eduardo Sousa
Skills needed: Entrepreneurial skills, being ambitious, hard-working,
good at selling quality products, IT skills
Training: Experience and English for work relations

10. Job profiles
Job: He works as an engineer for
NASA through a programme of the
Spanish Astrobiology Centre
Qualifications: Degree in
Telecommunications engineering
Isaías Carrasco
Skills needed: computer/technical skills, teamwork, flexibility to live
abroad, motivation and hard work.
Training:Training courses on aerospace engineering and master
degree in Satellite Technology.

11. Job profiles
Job: Quality manager in a company specialized in corrugated cardboard.
Qualifications: Degree in Physics/engineering.
Skills needed: flexibility and adaptability to different tasks, interpersonal
abilities, technical
literacy, management skills and
being disciplined.
Training: Continuous training
within the company according to
staff needs.
Aitor Toyos

12. Tips for job seekers
● DON'T GIVE UP
● WORK HARD TO HAVE A BASIC QUALIFICATION
● LEARN AT LEAST TWO FOREIGN LANGUAGES
● BE PREPARED
● BE FLEXIBLE
● IMPROVE YOUR COMMUNICATION SKILLS
● BE OPEN AND ADAPTABLE
● KEEP TRACK OF NEW JOB OFFERS