5. Reasons for unemployment
● The effect of the housing bubble
● Temporary employment
● Not enough growth (euro crisis and Spanish
debt)
6. What steps should be taken?
Education:
● Flexible education programmes to reduce early school
leaving.
● Introduction of Dual Vocational Education facilitating the
transition to the labour market.
Labour Market:
● Creation of a single permanent contract to avoid
temporariness.
● Promote recruitment of the unemployed
● Programmes to encourage:
Self-employment and entrepeneurship
Competitiveness
7. Jobs in demand today
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Gaming Manager
Hydrologist
Network Architect
Multimedia Artist
Logistician
Training Developing Manager
Quality Control Manager
Environmental Health & Safety Specialist
Urban Planner
Risk Management Manager
Speech Language Pathologist
Biomedical Engineer
Physician Assistant
8. Job profiles
·Job:
Export manager and
blender for a local winery.
Qualifications: Degree in
Spanish and French.
Skills needed: languages,
Matthew Stewart
understanding of different tastes according to
countries, social skills,understanding of how
the wines change from the tank to the bottle.
Training: experience is continuous training
9. Job profiles
Job: Exporting producer of organic paté
and foie grass from pigs and geese raised
in semi-wild state.
Qualifications: Technical Certificate in
Chemistry.
Eduardo Sousa
Skills needed: Entrepreneurial skills, being ambitious, hard-working,
good at selling quality products, IT skills
Training: Experience and English for work relations
10. Job profiles
Job: He works as an engineer for
NASA through a programme of the
Spanish Astrobiology Centre
Qualifications: Degree in
Telecommunications engineering
Isaías Carrasco
Skills needed: computer/technical skills, teamwork, flexibility to live
abroad, motivation and hard work.
Training:Training courses on aerospace engineering and master
degree in Satellite Technology.
11. Job profiles
Job: Quality manager in a company specialized in corrugated cardboard.
Qualifications: Degree in Physics/engineering.
Skills needed: flexibility and adaptability to different tasks, interpersonal
abilities, technical
literacy, management skills and
being disciplined.
Training: Continuous training
within the company according to
staff needs.
Aitor Toyos
12. Tips for job seekers
● DON'T GIVE UP
● WORK HARD TO HAVE A BASIC QUALIFICATION
● LEARN AT LEAST TWO FOREIGN LANGUAGES
● BE PREPARED
● BE FLEXIBLE
● IMPROVE YOUR COMMUNICATION SKILLS
● BE OPEN AND ADAPTABLE
● KEEP TRACK OF NEW JOB OFFERS
