Moving from New Zealand to France

[kiwimum]

Hi Everyone
We are a New Zealand family wanting to have a complete change for a year or 2. From what I can gather employment in France is very hard to get and I have been told it is better to get employment through a foriegn Company working in France. My husband is a builder,excellent joiner,furniture maker & plumber. Any info, advise, contacts anyone can give us would be greatly apprecitaed. Thanks Kate

[Bevdeforges]

Hi and welcome to the forum.

In order to apply for "long stay visas" for France, you husband is going to have to find a job in France. The process of getting a visa normally takes a good three months or more, so most employers tend to prefer to hire from local sources - or from those closer to hand (such as the now-famous "Polish plumbers").

You can check the job postings on the usual job sites, like monster.fr, or the job listings in any of the French newspapers (Talents.fr - Offres et recherche d'emplois is the job site for Le Monde) - but it's going to be a real long-shot that an employer will be willing to hire someone who doesn't already have working permission unless the candidate has some very unique skill that would justify waiting several months for the person to arrange a visa and arrive.

I know there's demand for builders and building trades in western Canada lately - or for something completely different, possibly Abu Dubai or the Emirates. But France is going to be a tough one in this case.
Cheers,
Bev

[giantpanda]

Hi!

See the present red tape - not very encouraging for non EU citizens.

Travail des étrangers - Service-public.fr

Yours,

giantpanda

[kiwimum]

Thanks Bev and Giantpanda for advise. Think your right, will keep browsing through job sites etc and who knows, we may just get lucky!! Kate