Tips for getting your first job in Mexico
What are your tips and advice for getting a first job in Mexico?
What are the job hunting steps to follow? Where to look for offers: newspapers, Internet, recruitment agencies, word-of-mouth?
What are the top hiring sectors?
What would you recommend to young professionals wishing to start their career in Mexico?
Thank you in advance for your participation!
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If you are Mexican or have a Visa Permanente then just about every angle can be tried.
If you are not here and not legal to work you need to visit, get the job, then go back to your country and apply for a working Visa.
Lots of foreign companies are here and getting hired by them with a Mexico placement - if your Spanish is good - is the best
Otherwise teaching English or Entertainment Coordinator at a large resort
You can search online on craigslists to begin with. Choose your area and hope for the best. As far as it goes with visa requirements. You can exist in any company as a trainee. Afterwards, a good company will help you with your IMM papers.
Now, if you are in sales, I can help you get a job.
Also, it depends were in Mexico are you looking to get a job.
What are your skills/preferences.
I don´t recommend to go there if you are find a job like a bartender, receptionist or waiter because this is stole opportunities to mexican citizens. But in some profesional or technical areas they need some applicants no matter nationalities. especially in resorts areas like Cancun, Los Cabos, Riviera Maya... 13 years ago I started my company as e-Commerce Consulting for Hotels and was an area where no mexican people. Now is different because this is a known area. But for example Cancun, Riviera maya and Cabos are very young cities and have so many needs, and that open a range of opportunities.
To find profesional jobs go to Computrabajo.com.mx, Monster, LInkedin (contact Headhunters in Mexico), in Cancun Asociación de Hoteles de Cancun Bolsa de Trabajo.
Don´t use local newspapers is a waste of time as Craigslist.
Regards, sorry my English is not my mother tongue and I use it only for internal communication. Not to write books o articles hahaha.
Have fun.
sparksmex wrote:terter1990 wrote:Almost impossible unless you have FHM.
FHM ?????
Neither have existed for 4 plus years.  Temporal or Permanente now
There are many English teaching jobs in some areas of Mexico, the beaches are not the place to look. You can teach English in primary and high schools as well as universities depending on your education and background. Or, like me, you can teach in a language school. There are plenty of business English teacher jobs in the automotive industry region of Mexico.
I have a work visa here in Mexico, after 4 years of work visas I can apply for permanent residence.Its common for a school to sponsor the work visa for an English teacher. If you are a native English speaker then its quite easy to get the work visa. On the work visa I can get on IMSS. My plan is to ultimately retire somewhere in Mexico, I'm setting myself up early. I guess you could say that right now I'm semi-retired and loving life.
I am Australian and I have been to Mexico. Since then I have attained my certificate as a Teacher of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL through the Australasian Training Academy). Unfortunately most of the positions are in Asian Countries and I want to teach in Mexico.
I am going to Mexico again in September 2015. Is there a person I can contact in Mexico City to advise me of positions available. I do not need to work fulltime.
Thank you in anticipation.
Julie
VIVIR EN MEXICO wrote:HI
I am Australian and I have been to Mexico. Since then I have attained my certificate as a Teacher of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL through the Australasian Training Academy). Unfortunately most of the positions are in Asian Countries and I want to teach in Mexico.
I am going to Mexico again in September 2015. Is there a person I can contact in Mexico City to advise me of positions available. I do not need to work fulltime.
Thank you in anticipation.
Julie
Hi Julie,
I do not have a contact name for you. There are many language schools in Mexico City including Berlitz and Harmon Hall. Mexico City is a tough city to teach English in because doing so involves a lot of commuting and the pay often isn't very good. You'll have to search online for jobs to apply to, Craigslist is useful as is Indeed.com. You will be competing for jobs with teachers who have CELTA which is often required in the better paying language schools.
Good luck to you,
Julie
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Cheers
Oh but no, at first they treat me like I look like a damn Mexican or otherwise "Latina" the way even the English-speaking ones initially speak to me in Spanish and act like I should understand that!
I just have to hope that when/if I can get into Belize City they don't think I look "Guatemalan" or whatever because Belize is my LAST hope on this continent. Even the I.T. and law and maths jobs in Mexico are ignoring me. Or maybe Belize can deport me and MAKE the British or French Embassies issue a laissez-passe without all the administrative rubbish they've given me over the last 9 months.
And I don't get why the three months I was "housed" wasn't long enough for MAIL to show up in Cancun. I had to send for things TWICE and they still never arrived. Belize, it would have been two WEEKS not months and months and it never arrives, sort of rubbish. And as for another hostel-gig, all the other hostels, it seems, I walk in to and ask about "voluntariado" and it seems no one speaks English. Service sucks, the places are dirty, bedbug-ridden, whatever, so they're not doing their JOB but "they speak Spanish." And no English. Wow. And as for TEFL - apply and apply and apply and never hear back from any place, story of my life. At least on North AmeriKKKa. In other parts of the world I could keep a roof over my head by being an Au Pair. I've done that before.
I really think you won't like Belize, it will not solve your problems. First, it is more expensive than Cancun. Yes, they do speak English, but they also use the dollar, which you may know is more than the Peso. It doesn't seem that you care for any of the places you have been, and for some reason in Cancun, where many speak English, you have not found any of them.
If I were you I would seek help from family and friends back in England/ Ireland/Â Scotland (assumed because of the pound sterling comment) They could perhaps help you get back home where even if you continue to be miserable, you will at least be in familiar territory.
Good luck.
Personally, I really dislike your verbiage when describing "these damned Mexicans". You are a guest in their nation. Be polite and learn the language. You'll do better.Â
Lastly, your "KKK" in the middle of North America is particularly rude. Mexico is part of North America and while racism is fairly common there, it's usually not against British people. Maybe it's you.
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