Office workers in suits and ties smartly wander up Main Street, mingling incongruously with the shorts and t-shirts of day visitors to the Rock.
If you want to work in Gibraltar, business generally revolves around several key sectors: tourism, banking, online gaming, accountancy and all the various legal and IT services that these require. There are also various opportunities for more casual employment in bars and restaurants throughout town.
Around 20,000 people are permanently employed in Gibraltar, consisting of both locals, and foreigners living just across the border in Spain.Over 50% of Gibraltar's school leavers go on to further education in the UK, more often than not returning to the Rock once they have qualified. This conveniently means that local UK trained professionals are readily available to run local businesses, the most common being law, business and accountancy graduates..
Neighbouring Spain has earned a relatively poor reputation for the lack of good job opportunities, low wages and generally inferior employment conditions and contracts, so many people come to Gibraltar in search of a comparatively stable and professional environment. Here they can enjoy a Mediterranean lifestyle, crossing the border as often as they like, while benefitting from the reassuring 'Britishness' of Gibraltar's working and living environment.
Gibraltar mirrors the UK system in that you will not normally be dismissed without being given the legally required notice and pay off, in accordance with your contract. This rather obvious professional courtesy is often ignored in Spain, leading to many a story of poor treatment, particularly amongst expatriates.
If you are looking for work in Gibraltar, it's worth giving your details to the recruitment agencies that will send you updates on the latest vacancies to suit your particular skills.
List of Gibraltar recruitment agencies
Recruit Gibraltar
Corporate Resources
Recruitment Gibraltar
Quad Consultancy
Ambient Jobs
Wemploy Recruitment
When seeking employment, however, physically being in Gibraltar, buying the local paper, The Gibraltar Chronicle, speaking to people and keeping your nose to the ground will prove invaluable, as will directly sending your CV to the Human Resources departments of major firms. If you are not yet in Gibraltar, try browsing through its online magazines such as The Gibraltar Magazine, Insight Gibraltar and Gibraltar Finance for a good feel of the business market and lifestyle you are contemplating joining:
Work Permits, ID Cards and Residence Permits
EU members: As a European Union member, Gibraltar allows people from other member states and Switzerland to go there to live and work without work permits. You will need an ID card to live and work on the Rock and for this you'll need to go to the Civilian Registration Office, Secretaries Lane.
You will need:
Passport
2 x passport photographs (full face and with mouth closed)
GBP 5
If renting property: rental agreement for the next min. 6 months
If owning property: Deeds of the property
Employment and Training Board (ETB) Contract
TIP: You'll normally need to wait a long time to be attended. Go armed with a book or music, as well as plenty of time and patience.
Non-EU members: You'll need to prove to the Gibraltarian employment officials that there is no local willing or capable of undertaking your work. If you or your employer can satisfy them of this fact, you will be issued a work permit for up to 12 months. Your employer will need to apply for your work permit prior to the start date of employment.
Until 31 December 2011, as 'new' EU members, Bulgarians and Romanians will need to obtain the work permit prior to commencing employment in Gibraltar. If you are from either of these two countries, you will not need a work permit to get another job in Gibraltar, provided you have worked an initial minimum uninterrupted period of 12 months.
Residence Permits: are not required if you are Gibraltarian or a British citizen. People from other EU member states need the Residence Permit to live and work in Gibraltar and you'll be issued these provided you prove you are not a burden to the state. Non-EU members might find it more difficult to obtain the Residence Permit because they must first produce a work contract, something that can only be issued if the employer can prove no Gibraltarian or EU citizen is as able to do the job.
Immigration Office tel. (+350) 200 51725
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