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this is a blog for people looking for work and jobs in the canary islands, whether it be tenerife, gran canaria, lanzarote or fuerteventura, or maybe one of the other smaller islands or la gomera, la palma oe el hierro. the canary islands are a fantastic place to work, with all year round sunshine, it is understandable why people look at tenerife, lanzarote, fuerteventura or gran canaria as a place to search for a job in the sunshine. flights to the canary islands are relatively cheap, and accommodation is also relatively economical. flights are available from all majot UK airports, gatwick, manchester, heathrow, luton and stansted and fly to either tenerifes reina sofia in the south or to gran canaria in the maspalomas area, or arrecife in lanzarote, there is of course an airport in fuerteventura in puerto del rosario. the weather in the islands is always sunny with just a few rainy intervals around january. the main areas in tenerife are los gigantes, playa de las americas, los cristianos and puerto de la cruz. tourist destinations in gran canaria are maspalomas, playa del ingles, puerto mogan and puerto rico. in lanzarote you have puerto del carmen, playa blanca, playa honda and costa teguise. in fuerteventura the main area is corralejo.


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Some advice!

3 February 2009

Hi all!

Thanks for all your comments on the new blog! We are glad you find it a useful tool. As mentioned, we will be featuring various articles on the Blog, and here is one of them. It is some advice that we received from an employer in the Canary Islands, he has kindly given up some time to put fingers to keyboard to provide some advice for all you people looking for work in the Canaries.

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Some of these things may be obvious, but I hope the info will help your visitors.

Firstly, you need to know that the economic climate in the Canaries is not the best it has been for a long time. This is not intended to put you off, but is an honest view of the situation we are currently going through at the moment. Having said that, there are plenty of opportunities for hard working people in nearly all sectors. We see a lot of people coming over to work thinking that work here in the Canaries is all sun and sea but that is far from the truth. The islands offer a great quality of life, that is true, but you have to work hard to make any decent money, as i'm sure is the case pretty much anywhere in the world. Also note that while the cost of living is cheaper here, the wages are also less than in the UK.

Also don't forget that there are already people here that are also looking for work that may already have some experience of working in the Canaries.

Secondly, as would also be the case in anywhere else in the world, please do not expect to be employed by simply sending your CV. Employers are going to want to meet you before you get a job here. My suggestion for this is that you do indeed send out your CV to as many people as you can and explain your situation, and then line up as many interviews as you can and then i'm afraid that you will have to invest in your future and travel over to meet your prospective employers. I appreciate that this will be expensive for you, but as I mentioned, you will not get anyone to employ you via email.

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We'll post more in the next coming days. Please feel free to post comments on this post.

this is a blog for people looking for work and jobs in the canary islands, whether it be tenerife, gran canaria, lanzarote or fuerteventura, or maybe one of the other smaller islands or la gomera, la palma oe el hierro. the canary islands are a fantastic place to work, with all year round sunshine, it is understandable why people look at tenerife, lanzarote, fuerteventura or gran canaria as a place to search for a job in the sunshine. flights to the canary islands are relatively cheap, and accommodation is also relatively economical. flights are available from all majot UK airports, gatwick, manchester, heathrow, luton and stansted and fly to either tenerifes reina sofia in the south or to gran canaria in the maspalomas area, or arrecife in lanzarote, there is of course an airport in fuerteventura in puerto del rosario. the weather in the islands is always sunny with just a few rainy intervals around january. the main areas in tenerife are los gigantes, playa de las americas, los cristianos and puerto de la cruz. tourist destinations in gran canaria are maspalomas, playa del ingles, puerto mogan and puerto rico. in lanzarote you have puerto del carmen, playa blanca, playa honda and costa teguise. in fuerteventura the main area is corralejo.
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