Can anyone offer me a job in paris,france?
Unfortunately the job market doesn’t work like that in France. I’ve been here 10 years now, and the only time I was “offered” a job was through a friend of a friend, and then, even, it was a temporary job. When I went on work assessment a couple of years ago – I have found increasingly it’s who you know, not what you know that really does get your foot in the door. Getting a permanent contract job (known as a CDI – Contrat Durée Indeternimée) is really a big challenge these days. Temporary work is easier to find (called a CDD – Contrat Durée Determinée) – although the latter can cause problems when making contributions to pensions, unemployment or when dealing with any paperwork to do with the unemployment bureau (ANPE – Agence Nationale de l’Emploi) or the Social Security (ASSEDIC – ASSociation pour l’Emploi Dans l’Industrie et le Commerce). A contract CDD doesn’t look so good on a CV when going to job interviews. So even if you can get a casual job “petit boulot” – you can really get
