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Where to look for employee from Spain, France or Italy to work in Germany?
1 point by qwertz on Sept 4, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 8 comments
Hello,

I have some small businesses in ecommerce and marketing doing all on my own so far. By the time I see a lot of potential in expanding my business europewide as well as on the german market. For this matter I need support on my projects.

I read in the newspapers about all the unemployed students in Spain and other european countries and was wondering how I could get in contact with those students and make them an offer to come to Germany and work with me?

Since I am a very open minded person I always enjoyed the company of international friends and colleagues and what we could learn from eachother. My company is not based in a large city though, which has its pros and cons of course, next city with more than 200k people is about 35min by car. And for I am not aware of how everything is going to develope businesswise I also can't pay high salaries.

What I could offer though is:

1. Accomodation (own room) & Food

2. Carsharing

3. Learning German

4. Knowledge

5. Participation in Sales

What skills I could need:

- Web development (HTML, CSS, PHP, JAVA etc.)

- Graphic Design

- Product Photography

- Social Networking

Also we are renovating the whole office place soon, so a little creativity in furnishing and some craftsmansship would be a great plus :)

I know it might not be the best solution for most of the unemployed young people in Europe but it's at least an offer for a new experience and maybe a chance to grow and create something together.

So where would be a place to insert my request in order to reach the young talented and employment searching humans in Europe?

Thanks you for your help!

Rick



Perhaps you could advertise a job opening at a local university? Or on the local student forums? Offering to help teach foreign students German in return for part time work and a little pay?

It seems more likely a foreign student already in Germany for study would be interested and ready, versus a student in Spain or France who would have to move.


There comes the part that the next university is 35min by car away from my company, and I was more aiming to help giving one of the unemployed young people a chance for a new perspective, I assume there would be at least some of them considering an offer like this. The question is how to get my offer to them so that they can respond, I couldn't find any platform for this? Maybe building a platform like this would be a new project, too, haha...


Ahhh, well then I have no idea. I can't say I can think of any site exclusively dedicated to them.

While I was unemployed and looking for work in Germany, one of the places I frequented was http://toytowngermany.com. Again not exclusively dedicated to students. But had a decent amount of people / students interested in a move to Germany. Perhaps there is a Spanish / French / Italian equivalent?


Have you considered employing them as remote workers ? You will not have problems with timezone/office-hours if you employ in EU countries and moving can be a problem for some people.


Well, I would like to work with them in one office place. I had freelancers working with me before and it worked fine most of the time but it's more about building something together here and learning from eachother. Maybe I should try looking on platforms like Couchsurfing for this matter, hm.


How can I structure my text here? This turned out a fluent mess :/


https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc


Thanks ;)




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