Exciting Cayman Islands Jobs
The best Cayman Islands jobs are still available even in this economy. As you may expect many jobs are related to the Cayman Islands banking, industry like accounting. Other Cayman jobs include doctor, nurse, financial officer, bookkeeper, waiter, and construction worker. Because Grand Cayman is a large financial center and major tourist attraction, this island has the most sought after jobs in the Caribbean.
The one piece of relocation advice I can give you is to take your time and organize what you will need on an island and what to leave behind in storage or with relatives. I think my husband and I got carried away with the excitement of living in the Caribbean and just didn't stop to think things through. For example, we moved here during November which is a fairly cold month in most parts of the US. As a result, we ended up bringing way too many warm clothes! The weather here is warm year round -- it basically varies from warm to hot and back to warm.
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Cayman Islands Jobs - How my husband did it
We moved from California to Grand Cayman in November 2008. Basically, over the summer, my husband joined an online service called Jobs in the Sun. This is a paid service that displays Caribbean jobs. If you are looking for a professional job, these paid services may be the most effective way to get to Grand Cayman.
However, this is not the only way to find a job. I would also recommend looking through the local news papers, Cayman Compass, Cayman News Service, and Cayman Net News. This is an excellent way to see the types of jobs available on the island and the types of companies that are looking for people.
You can also look through ECayTrade for job listings. It's basically a giant classified ads website. This website is also good for looking for places to live and used cars. I occasionally use it to sell old baby clothes. Go to moving to Grand Cayman to see how we made it to the Caribbean.
My husband's current employer contacted him during the fall and set up series of phone interviews. My husband is an IT professional, so his company needed to make sure the qualifications listed on his resume were accurate. To that end, his company created a test for him, gave him a time limit, and afterwards they discussed the results. Depending on your profession, you many not have to go through a test, on the other hand, you may have even more required of you.
After my husband was offered the job, the immigration process began. This basically required filling out several forms, providing proof of citizenship, and taking a medical test. The purpose of the medical test was to make sure my husband wasn't ill with a communicable disease like tuberculosis.
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Once my husband started working, I would describe the job as hectic. There was way more work than the number of people working at his company. He would frequently miss breakfast and lunch while trying to fix various client issues.
I've now spoken to a few expats and I've discovered many people experience the same thing. I think the problem is that it's pretty difficult to get someone to work here. First, they have to be willing to uproot their lives relocate to an island. Second, they have to go through the immigration process. Cayman, these days, is experiencing an economic slow down, and the immigration department is making it a bit more difficult to bring people in and also to allow people to stay. The feeling here in Cayman, is that local Caymanians should be hired instead of bringing workers from off-island.
Even with the hectic work, my husband had a good quality of life. He goes swimming many days out of the week (his favorite pastime). Hangs out with new found friends, and he still has time for his family. I only mention this to say that the quality of life you have here can be really grand.
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