Popular Job Sectors in Portugal
Portugal is a land of opportunities if you have a qualification and technical skills you can fill the gap of skilled workers by working in Communications as Call Center Managers, Information technology as software and hardware specialist, health care line as assistants to Doctors and Nurses, Tourism fields such as hospitality Management, tour operators, program directors. Teaching jobs in English is also a requirement. A TEFL certification and undergraduate degree can provide you jobs as English tutors. Summer interns are also a popular trend for earning some money focused on foreign students' part time jobs.
Main sectors of employment in Portugal are:
- Tourism and hospitality
- Customer service
- Restaurants
- Resorts and hotels
Portugal have top ranking business Companies based on their market value such as:
- Energias de Portugal 20.438 Bi. USD
- Jeronimos Martins SGPS 14.681 bi. USD
- GALP Energia SGPS 8.809 bi. USD
Other top mentions are: Deloitte, Accenture, Teleperformance, PWC, EY, KPMG, MIcrosoft, BNP Paribas, Capgemini.
The minimum wage rate for unskilled people in Portugal is 5 to 6 Euros and the basic salary is 700 Euros. For part time workers the salary is often fixed in per hour wage which is 4.38 Euros or more based on work skills and knowledge. The major Cities to work in Portugal are Lisbon, Porto, Algarve. Portuguese business Culture is centralized on making close relationships. Employees work eight hours a day. Annual leave for full time employees are 22 days. There are 16.9 percent of the workforce who are self-employed.
Inorder to work in Portugal the main requirements are work VISAs, Language, qualifications, tax and Social security numbers.
Some of the most in-demand jobs for international students:
- Bartenders 6 Euros/hr
- Customer support 11 Euros/hr
- Online gaming support 14 Euros/hr
- Sales representatives 10 Euros/hr
- Web developers 18 Euros/hr
- Team supervisors 7 Euros/hr
- Waitstaff 5 Euro/hr
- Interpreters 12 Euros/hr
- Tutoring in STEM education 12 Eur/hr.