And it may not be what you want to hear but 80% of the French job market is hidden
That means that the roles are not
Advertised Salut YouTube today's highly requested video is all about finding English speaking jobs in France
This video is really aimed at people who are wanting to maybe move to front or are already living here looking for a long-term
sustainable professional kind of career option
So I'm not really going to be covering nannying
Bartending the instructor to a guide from picking English teacher all of that kind of stuff
I think that most of you guys are aware that these kinds of opportunities would exist in France
I'm also talking to people who already started their career back in their home country and are moving to France not speaking a word of
French maybe
They're very highly qualified and they don't speak French or they're just interested in understanding what kind of options there are for work in France
And stay right to the end because I leave my very best and probably most relevant tip for the end of this video
But before we get started, it'd be unfair of me to say that you can easily find English speaking jobs in France
And you don't have to speak a single word of French
Of course, even if your work is in English as minors, for example, all of the informal stuff that happens
You know at the coffee machine
over lunch
Sometimes even a meetings it can switch to French and that's really good to be able to speak some French to be able to be
integrated with your colleagues
So, of course if you can show you a potential future employer that you're super motivated to learn the French language
It's going to be a huge plus on your resume
So before I jump into the video, I just wanted to mention spot server this video lingotto who offer one of the best
Easiest price effective ways that you can possibly learn French they offer really flexible
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Super easy and I have done an entire video on this I will link it up here
But they're actually running the lingo de marathon at the moment and the doors are going to close on May 13th
So I just want to remind you guys of their lingo to marathon is probably the best way that you can
Actually, like jump up an entire level of your French and really gain in confidence in such a short amount of time
it's effectively a three multiply event and in a nutshell if you take 30 French lessons per month for the full three months you get
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Which is when you take 15 courses per month for the three months and it get 50% refund at the end
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I know that a lot of my viewers have taken part in them and it has helped them so much to integrate in France to
Find work in France and you can also go and check out their Instagram
Which I'll link down below as well. If you want to hear some more stories and get some more info on the company itself
Otherwise guys the link go to marathon the gates closed on May 13th 29 teams, but the spots are limited
So it's better to sign up in advance if you can but if you're watching this before that date
And you're interested in taking your French to the next level
I definitely recommend so with all that said and done let's get into the top ways that you can find English speaking jobs in
France now, the first tip that I wanted to touch on is that there are actually dedicated websites for this
So if you're in one of the biggest cities in France
So I'm talking Paris Leon Toulouse granola stress Bordeaux
There are websites that actually find English speaking roles across the internet and pull them into one place
So one example of this is the website the local dot if R as an online english-speaking magazine for people based in France
You've also got jobs in Paris if R and you'll see what you hit the jobs in Paris website on the side
You've actually got other cities as well that they have the similar kind of website dedicated to and another great one is Paris
Expatriates magazine.com
Slash jobs now. I can't say that
I have personally found English speaking jobs on these websites, but what I have done is used my tip number two
Which is around search tactics
so I've used sites like LinkedIn and Glassdoor and then you've got all sorts of different filters like the kind of
Professional field you're looking for and all that kind of thing and I would just literally put in the search bar
English speaking words like global international or European or e
ei, which is
Europe Middle East and Africa, and that's an acronym that a lot of companies use which means the job is based in France
But you're working at a regional level
So the work will be in English now
You'll see this quite a lot in that the job title might be fully in English
And then the job description is fully in French. Don't let this put you off often
It's like a junior recruiter who's writing the job description. They're having to list it and
They'll do in French because they're most likely going to be French
But what you can do is look for clue phrases
like only nécessaire ungli and palliative long de travail ungli post on on Glee or
Metra's perfet de Longley and the reason that you're looking for this is because yes
I fretting over it in the job description in French
But you can get the hint that the jobs probably going to be in English or at least you'll be speaking in English a lot
Of the time now for the same reason when you're playing for these jobs
you'll always apply with your French CV plus an English CV because the first recruiter that's doing the screening is
Probably French and wants to be able to more than likely read your application and French
It will be quicker and easier for them tip number three is targeting French companies who are headquartered here in France
That, you know have an international presence
So the first place that I went is the CAC cohort, which is a French stock market list of basically France's
Biggest privately listed companies because they're likely to be big multinational groups
Headquartered in France and when you've got the headquarter here in France
That means that the teams looking after Europe and the teams even looking after the International scope will be based here
and that's how I voiced on english-speaking jobs in in France because I'm working in the
international HR team, which means that I'm in contact with different countries around the world and my job so my jobs in English
Of course
I will leave a link to that list of companies down below and that's how I found my first opportunity at
LVMH actually Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy group
because I was looking at this list and I was going on each of their websites one by one and
I found a job
And yes, the job description was in French, but it said in the job description that you needed a perfect mastery of English
So I decided to give it a go. I didn't speak a word of French and I got the job now
It's not just big multinational groups that you can target as well as any French openiy
He'd caught it in France with an international presence
but for example, I have worked for a music streaming company called Deezer and it's like a
Competitor to Spotify I'd say an online music streaming service. And when I worked there they had like a 500 employees
300 based in France, but 200 bass internationally, so I got the job able to do the HR for those based internationally
For example, I've also done some work for the French gaming company Ubisoft as well
They don't just produce games in France
of course not and they're working with
Global teams from all around the world and I did some work for them in English
Now my next tip is to think about targeting embassies consulates all these kind of inter governmental bodies
so for example
you could target the New Zealand embassy the British Embassy the Canadian embassy you could also think about the
OECD for example the OECD they have two official
Work languages one is English one is French and when you apply for a job there you just need to speak one or the other
fluently and for the United Nations, for example
I just went on to their website and there are jobs both in French and in English
So maybe think about these kinds of government related
Institutions often find in universities as well actually that they need support staff and office staff that can work in English because they run
International programs with international students now my next step may be super obvious. But a lot of people do overlook it
Have you thought about major international companies with the presence in France? So I know people who are working for big gaming companies?
So for example Blizzard Entertainment, it's got British. American Tobacco. You've got General Electric. You've got Kraft big consulting firms like
PricewaterhouseCoopers, Boston Consulting Group McKinsey also NGOs so aid groups global organizations
UNESCO, so targeting these big Anglophone groups or global organizations and in general
You're always better going on their website one by one just in case that they haven't gone the extra mile to list the job on
LinkedIn or indeed or whatever now my next step is have you considered working?
Remotely, so you can be doing that based in France and obviously paying your taxes in France
but being able to work from basically wherever you like and there are all sorts of websites where you can find these kinds of
Opportunities I can't list them all but I will put a decent list down below. Some huge ones are like flicks jobs
We work remotely comm jobs Brousseau
Moti, calm up work
I'm gonna list them all down below for you guys to check out and maybe see if you can find anything on there that would
Maybe suit you speaking of this
This brings me on to my next tip which is have you thought of working for yourself
Of course when we think of working for ourselves
we think it's only something that maybe writers or
Translators or editors something like that could do if you think about it
You could do almost anything as a consultant coach freelancer. For example, if you were working in PR or social media or marketing in your
Previous life when you come to France. Think about how many French companies would like to have a global social media presence in English
We're working for yourself. Are there any services that you could offer that you could really target an english-speaking expat community in France?
Could you be an english-speaking?
Relationship counselor personal trainer or you know, like if it were me for example
And I really really couldn't find a job in human resources
I could maybe offer English speaking career coaching services so I could coach people in English. So
Expats living over here
Or I could coach French people on how to write a brilliant CV resume in
English if they want to apply for international jobs, for example, could you get creative?
Could you use your your love of baking English cupcakes? For example, it's an interest. It's a skill. It's a passion
That's whatever and could you run workshops for little French kids to come and learn how to bake English cupcakes?
100% in English which French parents would love because they want their kids to be able to speak English
Sometimes when you move to a new country
You just have to get a little bit crazy a little bit creative and imagine the kind of thing you could do
I have a lot of expect friends who had traditional corporate careers, and now that they're in France. They've become bloggers. They've become youtubers
They've become coaches like online
Coaches or counselors where they run their meetings using Skype only so they don't doesn't really matter where they are based
Because they're just meeting the person on skype
if you have any skill interest passion at all that you could use to target either tourists in France expats in France, or
French people wanting or needing to speak English for some reason then that opens up a whole new range of options
now I said that I would save the best of Toulouse and so here it is and it may not be what you want to
hear but
80% of the French job market hidden, that means that the rolls are not
Advertised and what I've noticed Taran, that's so true
is that many many many people get jobs through their
Network through being referred by a friend of a friend of a friend
It's not just your family and your friends at the faintest acquaintances
Who can help you to get an interview?
You're so much more likely to get the job why because workers have so many rights here in France
Which is a wonderful thing
But once the company takes a risk and high as you it's very very very difficult to get rid of you
and so if someone can kind of refer you even in the smallest way to reassure them that
Someone can bat for you
and so what I would recommend is to get
crystal crystal clear on who you are what your qualifications are and what you want and be really specific and
You have no shame and you tell everyone
You meet and I know it's not easy and I know it's not necessarily comfortable
but that's kind of where magic happens and
don't do it in a pushy sales e-way just be like
I've got five years experience in a China really love to do human resources at a
Multinational group you don't know anyone. Do you who works in HR here in Paris?
Don't be like hey, here's my CVS ended up, but just ask everyone you meet. Do, you know anyone?
do you know anyone and create a list of context and
Context them and ask if they know anyone they've been willing to meet for a coffee
Conversation they've been willing to just I don't know have a quick call this kind of thing because you're so much more likely to find
A job this way than any other way
Now the last thing I just want to say is that getting a job in France can be really tough
I know really highly qualified people that have spent over six months looking for a job
So you may also want to think outside the box and think to yourself
Could I do a year's study here in an English speaking master's program?
For example, could I do an MBA here?
So that I can do an internship for a company and again network network network
And hopefully get a job that way as fascinating as it is taking 12 months out of your career path
Which is a long career path, you know, we're going to be working for forty years
Just taking 12 months out in order to set yourself up for the rest of your time in France career wise can be worth it
So guys those are the tips that I had for you for this video
I hope that it was useful
If you have any tips of your own
Please please please do mention them down in the comments below because it will really help
Anyone else who's watching this video and looking for further tips?
And if you guys want to relieve some of that anxiety
And actually be able to go into the interviews at least with an intermediate level
conversational level of French
Do consider doing the lingo to marathon that I talked about at the beginning of the video my links down below
And my special code speak 88 so that you don't have to pay the entry fee. So that's it from me this time guys
I'll see you in the next video Wednesday a bientot
