How long is your working day? As the song goes, a lot of people work 9-5, although here in the UK it’s not unusual for people to be in the office until 6pm or 7pm. However our neighbours in France are renowned for their 35 hour week. Could this be set to change? A potential [...]
Posts Tagged ‘career’
Longer hours in France?
Posted in Europe, Work, tagged career, employment, Europe, France, politics on January 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
So you want to be a poker customer services representative?
Posted in Language jobs, tagged career, customer services, jobs, languages, poker on December 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
You may have seen our recent post explaining that we are going to be profiling a range of the different jobs you can do with languages here on our blog. Our first one was on life as a football researcher followed by life as a video games tester. Here is the third one – carry [...]
So you want to be a football researcher?
Posted in Language jobs, tagged career, football, jobs, languages on November 18, 2010 | 5 Comments »
So you want to be a football researcher? You may have seen our last blog post explaining that we’re going to be profiling a range of the different jobs you can do with languages here on the blog. So here is the first one – read on to find out about life as a football [...]
So you want to be a…?
Posted in Language recruitment, Work, tagged career, jobs, languages, recruitment on November 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
At Euro London, every day we’re recruiting for a wide range of jobs involving languages. Yet we’re often surprised at the fact that many people don’t really know what opportunities are out there. Time and time again, we hear that people think their only option is to become a translator or teacher. We have run [...]
Hyper Japan
Posted in Euro London news, Language news, languages, tagged candidates, career, Hyper Japan, japanese on November 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Our Japanese desk took some clients to the recent Hyper Japan event – and what a successful day it turned out to be. It was the first time the event was put on so we had no idea what to expect but had done our research and looked forward to seeing and hearing all about [...]
Learning a foreign language – the way to boost your career
Posted in Euro London news, Language news, languages, tagged career, French, German, language learning, languages, Russian, Spanish, Swedish on October 18, 2010 | 3 Comments »
We recently featured in an article in the Guardian discussing how learning a new language can really boost your career and that it is never too late to learn. To see the article and our comments in full click here. But here’s a summary of the piece: Speaking to people in their own language for [...]
Life as a recruitment consultant
Posted in Euro London news, tagged career, Euro London, recruitment on October 11, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Fancy a career in recruitment? Two of Euro London’s new graduate trainees Phil and Liz talk about life as a recruitment consultant.
Fancy working in recruitment?
Posted in Euro London news, tagged career, Euro London, recruitment on October 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Check out our latest video of two of our new recruits – Rebecca and Fiona. See what life is like at EuroLondon and why they chose to step into recruitment.
A-Levels & languages
Posted in Language news, languages, tagged A Level, career, CILT on August 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
With A Level results recently published there have been plenty of stories in the news about the lack of university places for some students and the increase in the number of students bypassing further education and opting to go straight into work. This got me thinking about some figures recently published about languages. According to [...]
New faces
Posted in Euro London news, tagged candidates, career, employment, Euro London, languages on August 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We are always interested in hearing feedback from our new starters about their first few weeks at Euro London. Here are profiles of a couple of our new consultants and don’t forget if you like the sound of life at Euro London, we are still looking for extra members of the team so get in [...]

