How can you start to look for a job? First of all you need your curriculum vitae (C.V.) In this document you have to write down your Irish address, your birthplace and birth date, your mobile phone number and if you have a driving licence or a car here. Then, you need to put in your studies, your experiences (employment record, the company’s name and your job description), your knowledge of computers and languages. It’s very important to put in your personal skills and strong points, your interests and hobbies. And finally if you have experience in Ireland or UK you need to put in your references.

If you have difficulty writing or translating your C.V. into English, you can go to the “Centre for the Unemployed” at 13 North Main St. and go to the Job Club. In this centre some people can help you to make your C.V. and after to photocopy it (because it is better that you keep the original C.V.).
 
And now you can begin to look for a job.  How can you do that? Well, you have a a number of ways!!! You can go to the street and look around in the shops, restaurants and bars (depending on your experience). Sometimes there are ads advertising for staff. Also you can go to the FÁS office (Shandon Street or on Sullivan’s quay) where you can check the computers for available jobs and select the kind of position (medical, tourist, cleaner, factory, administrative…) that you are looking for. If you find some interesting jobs, you can print the advertisement (which has the address or phone number of the employer). In the same office, you can check the newspapers (if you don’t want to buy it every day) and you can watch the ads and send a letter with your C.V.

Another thing you can do is bring your C.V. to the Temporal Jobs Office, like Adecco, or you can go directly to the company and ask for the manager and give him your C.V. personally.

The second stage of securing a job is the most difficult:  “the interview”. Before to go to the interview you need to have prepared yourself in advance: talk about your past jobs and experience, your education and skills (IT or languages).
Everybody, in one moment of his or her life, has looked for job. Therefore, it is normal to feel nervous. You’re like other people.  And if you have experience in any kind of job, you need only to demonstrate it. Don’t feel embarrassed to ask if you don’t understand anything, because your answers are very important.  Don’t forget to use your. You need to be strong because maybe you won’t meet always-friendly people. “Work is business”.  After the interview you may feel unhappy because you think you gave the wrong answers. But, you don’t have to feel sad. If you want to work and you try hard, you will find a job.

The system to look for a job is very similar in all countries. And around the world you can meet always people who are prepared to help and those who are not. You need to have in mind this, because in your future interview, your future job and everywhere you will meet stupid people, but here, in Ireland, it is not the habitual thing.
 
You need to remember that the world is open to all of us, and everyday people immigrate more and more to find a better life or acquire new knowledge. These will help you enjoy life and live. Good luck!!!!