Work in Brazil (part 3)
Hi everybody!
It’s my third note talking about working in Brazil. Please, feel free if you want to ask me something and of course to correct my errors! =)
Since I moved here I’ve met a lot of foreign people who work here and there is a fact: if you don’t speak Portuguese your chances to find any job here are bitter low, even if you are a native English or Spanish speaker.
It could be easier to find a job if you are a technical or IT specialist. Brazil has a certain shortage of qualified technical specialists and in this case it’s not necessary to speak fluent Portuguese. A good intermediate level will be enough. A friend of mine is a web-designer and got a job without any effort with intermediate Portuguese.
My case was completely different. As I work in HR I had not been able to perform my job before I had learned the local language perfectly and even with fluent Portuguese it was hard. I went on at least 15 interviews and it took me more than 5 month. It’s a really long period but I know people who had been looking for a job here for more than 1 year… It’s really sad…
Tomorrow I’ll tell about how an interview process here is done!
If you have read until here, thank you for your attention! =)
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Work in Brazil (part 3)
Hi everybody!
This is my third note talking about working in Brazil. Please, feel free if you want to ask me something and of course to correct my errors! =)
Since I moved to Brasil (only to avoid repetition with "moved here" and "who work here) I’ve met a lot of foreign people who work here and it's a fact: if you don’t speak Portuguese your chances of finding any job here are bitterly low, even if you are a native English or Spanish speaker.
It could (do you mean could or would?) be easier to find a job if you are a technical or IT specialist. Brazil has a certain shortage of qualified technical specialists and in this case it’s not necessary to speak fluent Portuguese. A good intermediate level will be enough. A friend of mine is a web-designer and got a job without any effort with intermediate Portuguese.
My case was completely different. As I work in HR I had was not been able to perform my job before I had learned the local language perfectly and even with fluent Portuguese it was hard. I went on at least 15 interviews and it took me more than 5 months. It’s a really long period but I know people who had been looking for a job here for more than 1 year… It’s really sad…
Tomorrow I’ll tell about how an interview process here is done!
If you have read until here, thank you for your attention! =)
Thank you for writing these! I'm very interested, because I am considering moving to Brazil to be a teacher. I love Brazil and love Portuguese! I'm a little hesitant to move there at the moment, because of all of the problems they're having with the government, infrastructure, and so on.
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As I wrote before, my husband is Brazilian so I live here because of him.
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I am curious why you work on brazil rather than your home country.
for the better prospect? or for a chance to practice portuguese?
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Hello Ekaterina,
It's interesting everything you write about your search for a job in Brazil, it's like an odyssey!, when we move from our countries we used to face such difficulties, I moved from Venezuela to Colombia because I couldn't stand our political an our economical situation any more, but it wasn´t so hard in my case because people here speak spanish and also I got a job before moving here, I'm computer engineer and it's a high demanded profession.
I think it's very nice when we can work as freelancers for some time, I did it once some years ago and it was a good experience. My questions for you would be:
- How long have you been in Brazil so far?
- Do you have relatives in Brazil? it's very helpful when we have friends or relatives in the countries where we decided to move.
всего доброго
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