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im after the same thing mate, would love to move to holland. great country!! hopefully someone can help us out. good luck!
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As far as I know then there are no agencies in the UK handling vacancies for unskilled work in the Netherlands. The reason why is that there is simply no need to do so (same as British agencies recruiting for the UK in the Netherlands, for the same type of work. I know many Eastern European countries have the monopoly on these jobs in the UK!) In the Netherlands we have agencies and you google them as 'Uitzendburo' or 'Uitzendbureau'. There are general ones which have all types of jobs or there are specialist agencies covering certain area's e.g. agricultural jobs If you are serious about working in the Netherlands then the best thing you can do is to get in contact with some of the agencies and put feelers out to see what kind of response you get. To be honest you are going to struggle to find an abundance of unskilled labour positions with English only, but of course it is worth a try Here is a link to the English version of the Yellow Pages in the Netherlands http://yellowpages.goudengids.nl/displayhome.ds?locale=en_NL&visitorUid=8a90219019e8964d0119fceb83741af7&passwordToken=E644C26C-E692-C22B-C325-C9DC39460A68&newSearch=true&previousPath=displayhome and here is a link (in Dutch though) to a listing of the agencies which is produced by the centre of work & income CWI https://www.werk.nl/portal/page/portal/werk_nl/werknemer/meer_weten/werk_zoeken/anderewebsitesoverwerk/uitzendbureaus You can use Google translate which will do a rough job of translation (but should be good enough to understand the basics http://translate.google.com/translate_t?hl=en&sl=nl&tl=en# Here is the link (in Dutch) to the listing of the job vacancy database of websites on the CWI site https://www.werk.nl/portal/page/portal/werk_nl/werknemer/meer_weten/werk_zoeken/anderewebsitesoverwerk/vacaturebanken but most will be in Dutch only Therefore you can also look at the following sites which are in English There are also some sites in English where English language jobs are placed: The most famous one is http://www.undutchables.nl Then here are a couple more that I know of: http://www.bluelynx.nl http://www.xpatjobs.com http://jobs.expatica.com/nl What you can also do is check the Dutch version of Monsterboard and type "English" in the 'trefwoord' (keyword) field http://www.monsterboard.nl One thing I would really say though is that Amsterdam is great as a holiday location but as with everywhere it is different to actually live and work in another country with it's culture & language. Also accomodation is exceptionally expensive in & around Amsterdam due to it's popularity I would really advise you to come over for say a week and in that time go around the agencies to get an idea of how easy it will be for you to get a job and find accomodation. Then try to live as if you were living here as a local - e.g go to a supermarket and imagine doing the weekly shopping. Talk to people and get a feel of the city/country but imagine being here without your network of friends & family. Often it is a case of "the grass being greener on the other side"until you realise that the grass actually needs to be cut on the other side as well when you actually live and work there. Many of the issues that are taking place in the UK are not so dis-similar to here. However putting the difficulties aside, if after your trip you still want to do it, then go for it. It can be a really great experience living & working in another country and you can learn a lot and grow personally from it - if nothing else it looks interesting on your cv! Good luck
