Hey! I moved to USA a year ago and it’s been hard to find a job as a copywriter. I have 3 years of experience in Advertising Agencies and I’m not native English speaker but as a bilingual person (Spanish is my native language) I thought it would be easy to find something but apparently is not. Any suggestions? It has not been easy to adapt here :/

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Go check out Alma, they specialize in Hispanic multicultural marketing so you’ll either be writing in Spanish or in English but still to Spanish speaking communities.

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Thank you! I’ll take a look 👍

Where are you I’m the country? I know of a a couple shops in miami that are usually hiring bilingual copywriters

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I am in Long Island - New York, open to work remotely :)

Do you have your LinkedIn updated? There are definitely a lot of bilingual copywriter jobs out there, especially if you’re flexible about location or freelance/full time. I’d make sure you have bilingual copywriter in your headline and set your profile so recruiters know you’re open to work.

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As a native English speaker who has often wished he could work in other countries and decided against it, it seems like a particularly difficult job to do in a second language.

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Yeah, that makes more sense because a lot of people in Europe are completely fluent in English. Coming to America to work wouldn’t be so hard.
For me (American), I speak some French and would love to work in Paris, but I simply couldn’t copywrite in French. Our language classes in America aren’t good enough to get people fluent and even if they did I don’t know how I’d understand the nuances of the language well enough to be an expert like I am in English.

Agencies in general don’t like paying the costs that work visas entail. You’ll find it easier though if you apply to “multicultural” agencies. Do a Google search and ask for names in the Advertising Bowl. Also search the bowl list for Spanish-speaking/multicultural advertising bowls.

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Find agencies you want to work for and then check out those peoples portfolios.

For some of us who worked in latin america, we dont realize how different the work is. Make sure your portfolio looks like the ones from creatives here in the US. Show it properly, play up to the bilingual thing. Reach out to creatives to talk, not just recruiters.

Signed: bilingual copywriter who also moves from latin america.

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Which work visa do you have?

Thank you! I didn’t know about it. I’ll take a look. Thanks

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