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Hi everyone, Im a 20 year old british/egyption student, just finished my degree in Travel management, and looking for a job in sharm or huradaga. Im looking for a job preferably in my sector, which is travel, tourism or hospitality, but anything else would be fine aswell. If anyone can help me i would be very greatful. Thank You. Nancy
i hope this helps...if u need extra info, u can email me at: tombsman@hotmail.com
Natashiah Member # 4566
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Try Abercrombie and Kent in Luxor...they were looking for a secretary....just one thing though...dont wear hijab and try as much as possible to look and act like a foreigner!
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Hi Nancy I Have a Alot OF Ppl Working IN sharm I i`ll Asking Them To Find jop For You But it is Not Sure To Find A Job Bye
tlc Member # 1440
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i always seen ads in the AlAhram on Fridays, many were in that area, go to all the 4 and 5 star hotels,, And do act like a Foreigner, will guarentee you a higher pay, unfortuatley, but true.
newcomer Member # 1056
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Is it just me, or do any other foreigners, or Egyptians for that matter, get annoyed with this attitude of foreigners expecting to get paid more for doing the same job as Egyptians, even though they are usually language disabled and don't understand the local culture. There seems to be something essentially wrong in someone coming from a developed country to a third world country, where there is huge unemployment (around 30% according to some), and expecting to get a high paid job so they can have the same lifestyle that they would have "at home".
Semsema Member # 5415
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Let me put the record straight here Newcomer. I am an ex pat living and working in Hurghada. I get the same salary as my Egyptian colleagues, except they get a living allowance - I don't. They get huge incentives - I don't. Why did I get the job, because whilst some of my colleagues can speak English they certainly cannot write and spell well enough to do the job that I am.
I came to this country expecting nothing. Unlike some countries where the citizens see Europe/America as the great hand out lands, visas, jobs, usually with a European woman, oh and I pay my taxes.
The difference is that if an Egyptian goes to another country he is charged exactly the same as the national of that country, unlike here where being European really means: Take them for every penny you can!
Angry, yes I would say so at such a blinkered generalisation of Europeans.
newcomer Member # 1056
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Hi Semsema!
It seems as if you misunderstood my message and as a European myself I certainly wasn't making a "blinkered generalization of Europeans", as I know many different types of Europeans and Americans living here and I know that they don't all think like this. I'm sorry if my message came over like that.
However, there are many westerners who do come to Egypt and who do come to this board wanting precisely what I described and it is really beginning to annoy me. You could argue that it is a chicken and egg situation, and that it was because the westerners were offered high salaries to "tempt" them to come here in the first place that the Egyptians then got used to the idea that they had more money and tried to benefit from it. And also why should foreigners not take advantage of the system that is already in place, as they didn't create it.
But when I keep on hearing foreigners saying that they wouldn't work for an "Egyptian salary" and that as a foreigner they "deserve to be paid more!", and that "you couldn't expect a foreigner to work for those wages!" and then I look around at the Egyptians who would love to even have a job, it strikes a nasty chord and makes me feel that there is something wrong and it needs to change.
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