In reply to A newbie all over again! by Annec
In reply to A newbie all over again! by Annec
Your young family will grow up bi-ingual a great advantage in the job market!
Also they may not see their careers being in Italy when the time comes anyway so would not let this hold you back as a family.
OK this happens in Italy, but networking is a fact of life all over the world now?
[QUOTE=red tulip]an interesting report on the front page of this site today,confirming that people still get jobs in italy based on personal recommendation.in the south this way of doing things is growing and more than half of all firms rely on it and overall 50%of young people find it acceptable.this is the one aspect of italian life which dissuades me from moving my young family to live in italy.does it concern anyone who has moved to italy or is it that young immigrants are viewed in the same way as italians and in due course they will also be recommended for jobs?[/QUOTE]
If it was the only way that people find work I would have some problems with it, but this is clearly not the case as there are people who get work the 'normal' way via advert-interview-appointment on merit.
I grew up in a country where this maxim of 'its who you know, not what you know' applied and it was not all bad. Once you learn the value of networking and how to do it, you find that you plug into this way of doing things very easy. It is not necessarily shady or bad, simply a different way of doing things, and historically a great way to safeguard scarce jobs.