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lslade
Joined 2012
Posts: 1

Dual Citizen Looking to Move to Spain

12 years ago

Hola todos! It is my dream to move to Spain and settle there (ideally Barcelona, but I'm also open to Madrid as a start). I am fluent in Spanish (I have a BA in it from the US as well) and Italian and speak Portuguese and French at the intermediate level with a good understanding of Modern Greek. I am in the final year of my International MBA and would like to move to Spain once I graduate. I will have 4 years of very strong professional work experience at a global financial services company by the time I graduate in the summer of 2013. I am also a dual US/Italian citizen so a work permit/visa is not an issue for me in Europe. I know that Spain's economy has seen better days, but does anyone have any advice on how to go about finding a job there from so far away? I feel that I am now qualified and by the time I graduate I'll be very qualified for employment, but it would be a lot less nerve-wracking to have a job in place before leaving. I would like to continue working in the professional/corporate environment. I have resumes in English, Spanish and Italian (Spanish and Italian need updating) and have had a lot of experience traveling to Europe, but it is time for me to live there. Because I figure it will be very difficult to get a job prior to leaving, I have started to look into another Master's degree at a university in Madrid or Barcelona as a sort of "guaranteed" way of getting myself there, but if I could go the route of straight employment from the beginning, I would prefer that (the process for getting my US academic credentials certified as equivalent appears to be a big headache).

So any advice? Thoughts? Comments? Ideas?? I'm desperate to make this happen!

Gracias de antemano!!

- Lenny

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