Tenerife has something for everyone, vibrant nightlife, good beaches and quiet charming resorts. The scenery and the landscape is like you’ve never seen before. Highlights will include a cable car ride to the summit of Mount Teide or a camel safari or dolphin spotting.
“It is also the most populated island of Spain, with a land area of 2, 034.38 km² (785.47 mi2) and 908, 555 inhabitants, 43% of the total population of the Canary Islands. About five million tourists visit Tenerife each year, the most of any Canary Islands.” Source: Wikipedia Tenerife
Most of the jobs advice on this page is aimed towards jobs in Tenerife for English-speaking people. Head for the south of the island where you will find most of the job opportunities on offer as it is where the biggest tourist resorts are located.
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The Canary island of Tenerife is only 300 km away from Africa yet it belongs to Spain. Tenerife is now one of the most popular tourist destinations in Europe because of the all year round climate.
In the winter many of the popular resorts on the Costa del Sol, Spain’s most popular tourist coast, get quite cold and so Tenerife being much further south scores highly because many people come here for the mild winter weather and climate.
If you are hoping to live and work on Tenerife on a full-time basis this is good because it means there are more job opportunities than other areas of Spain and the work is not just seasonal.
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Tenerife is the largest of the seven Spanish Canary Islands. If you want to consider job opportunities on neighbouring islands, our best recommendations would be to look for jobs in Gran Canaria, jobs in Lanzarote or work in Fuerteventura.
Alternatively try these smaller Canary Islands which also have tourist jobs in the summer: La Palma, La Gomera, El Hierro, La Graciosa, Montaña Clara, Alegranza, Isla de Lobos, Roque del Este and Roque del Oeste.
Many people who consider looking for jobs in Spain are drawn to finding work on mainland Spain perhaps on the Costa Blanca or Costa Brava where many expatriates have settled without realising how quiet it is in the wintertime and how few jobs opportunities there are.
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If you are an EU citizen then you won’t need a visa to get a job in Tenerife. If you a resident of the United States, Canada or Australia or any other non-European Union country then you will need to apply to the Spanish Embassy in your country for a visa which will be valid for three months.
Most jobs in Tenerife are paid unofficially in cash and you are working illegally. If this is the case you won’t need a NIE number.
Getting an N.I.E. number in Tenerife – Go to the local police station and fill out the necessary forms. Some basic details are required such as address, name, passport number etc. Obviously the form is in Spanish. You should be issued with a temporary card on the spot. Take a copy of your passport and a passport sized photo just in case.
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Some people write that foreigners come to Spain to the most touristic areas and that is the wrong choice. But it is an understandable choice – for many people it is exactly the sea and the beach that is most appealing. I moved to the south of Tenerife nearly three years ago, it was intended as a 4-5 months’ stay, but I loved the place and decided to stay on and try to settle in.
I did not speak Spanish when I came, but, naturally, in the process of living here I have learned to speak it enough to get by with authorities etc., though not enough to work for an all-Spanish firm. I would not say I stayed hoping for a laid-back life style, I love to work and have a great sense of responsibility for doing a good job, what was appealing to me was the vicinity of beach and the possibility to go there after work and at weekends, all year round – it does work as great stress relief and gives the change of pace and relaxation like nothing else. I am also a very adaptable person, and get along with most people I meet, despite nationality, race, age, or educational background.
Whatever negative comments I have read here about Spanish people can be applied to many other nations. I have met many good Spanish people here; yes, you have to speak their language as most of them do not speak English at all or not sufficiently to hold a meaningful conversation. There are cultural differences, of course, yes, there is the mañana thing, but not everyone is the same. I have dealt with very efficient and helpful people in the municipality, in gestoria, in court, in car rental agency, just to name a few. It appears to be a combination of luck as well as your own attitude: even a very professional and helpful person will turn his/her unfriendly side to you if your manner expresses mistrust and expectation of inefficiency or failure.
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Tenerife, naturally, does not have a wide selection of office jobs for qualified professionals, and the competition is fierce, that is only to be expected. The only truly bad thing here, as well as in the continental Spain for what I hear from other people, is the labour market situation. It does not concern people who come here for retirement or have tons of money or a good business idea (the latter two categories are not guaranteed against meeting the labour market face to face at some point either), but people who need a job to live. Salaries are low, that is one thing, but what is worse is that you can almost never hope to get a permanent contract, whether you are Canarian or whatever you are.
This was the “brilliant” idea of the Spanish goverment to fight the recession of 2008 – to relax the legislation concerning temporary contracts – and vola! – the official unemployment rates have dropped allowing the governement to start boasting everywhere about the so-called Spanish miracle. In practice, it means this: you are given a temporary contract, usually 3 or 6 months initially, then it may be prolonged to one year, but not beyond that because in this case the employer must give you a permanent contract. In order to avoid this, they fire you, no matter whether you are good or bad at your job, you have your 4 months of unemployment benefits, and then the cycle repeats – work for maximum 1 year, 4 months of benefits. Hotel chains might move you to another hotel after those 4 months. Car rental agencies works the same way. So there is an army of hotel receptionists, car rental agents, waiters, cooks, and chambermaids, as well as office clerks, migrating from company to company in a cycle. Experience and work quality mean nothing, what matters to the employer is not to give you a permanent contract and not to pay you sickness/holidays/pension at all costs. There are some companies who do value employees and offer permanent contracts to good workers, but they are so few that by the time you find one you will already be planning to move away. It is not surprising that the customer service is often bad as people are discouraged and depressed. Funnily enough, it is mainly British-owned firms that offer better conditions and permanent contracts, but they are so few and often out of reach for the locals due to poor command of English.
Many young Canarians, both single and families, who try to build an independent life, are often forced to give up and move back with theirs parents simply not being able to continue paying the rent. Foreigners fight for a while and leave the island. Understandably, this situation on the labour market means that there is no stability and no way to plan anything for a longer term, not to mention any career growth of course. If you need to work for a living, sooner or later this instability gets to you and you realise that not even the vicinity of the ocean helps on the general mood.
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Very sadly, after all this time, I am leaving for UK. After witnessing the job market and seeing everyone I know being thrown about like garbage for all this time, no sun and beach can beat a permanent contract in UK and its dignified work conditions. It is painful to see people here struggling. It is not true at all that all Spanish are so lazy as many people seem to believe, many of them work like slaves in inhuman conditions and no hope for any change. I have been extremely lucky here with my landlord, and a well-paid job that was excellent until a new manager came, but it is a mistake to think that the situation that the majority of people are in will never touch me, and staying on will just be pushing my luck. Compared
