Search for job in UK - practical advices ?

anonimo

I am considering applying for jobs in the UK, maybe London. I work in IT.

I need advices in 2 areas:

- what are the best sites for IT jobs ?

- interviews:
What is the best way to do in terms of interviews ? Obviously dissapearing from work 1 day every other week will raise suspicions.

Also most of good jobs are advertised through agencies, and they normally give you 20 phone calls only to find out that the job was not real, or did not really matches what you are looking for, etc ?
I will not be able to handle this level of communications durring business hours without raising suspicions, etc...
Shall I take some time off ? What do people do in this situation ?

Thanks in advance.

DublinWriter

I find jobserve.co.uk generally the best. There's also cwjobs.co.uk.

If you think Irish agencies are bad, you have the totally muppetry of UK agencies ahead of you. Beware and be very suspicious when dealing with them.

Depending on the job type or level, you'll probably be doing 'phone interviews, which can be generally terrible and require a different approach to regular interviews (a lot of communication is non-verbal).

Best of luck!

damnyanks

If you are considering London their are a lot of large companies operating there. They will usually have jobs posted on their website in a variety of positions.

What sort of area are you going into? How many years exp? Any work done in a bank ?

anonimo

development - c++/c#
5+ years
no exp in banking, but would like to get into the financial sector if possible, although I undestand it's not easy to get a job without banking exp.

damnyanks

Well its a good time to be looking to move into banking. They need people badly.

Some people who do really interesting work are bloomberg, real time stock exchange information sent out to the various financial institues, their infrastructure is ancient though!

Check out hte likes of on google

Morgan stanely
jp morgan
UBS
DrKW
merryl lynch
citigroup
bank of america
bank of new york
barclays capital
llyods global markets
royal bank of scotland
macquire bank (spelling)
kbc fp
bnp paribas
credit suisse

Most of these companies will have job section listing jobs on their websites.

tHE vAGGABOND

Im pretty sure WWMan has a sticky thread in the Abroad thread about living and working in the UK..