Going to England for work

Francesco10

I'm a graduate who has spent the last year on the dole. I have a 2.1 honours degree in Business Studies. I take it England is still not in a great state re jobs at the moment but I can't imagine it not being any better than Ireland is at this time.

Now I have no real professional experience, only job I've held was in retail and that was a part time job I was left go in due to the recession.

I'm saving a bit of money up at the moment to head over in Sept, now I have been trying job sites atm, applying for graduate type jobs and also normal work - call centre etc. I haven't had one acknowledgement, is that due to me currently based in Ireland, i.e. Irish address and telephone no. or is it just solely down to lack of experience. As I said I'm in the process of saving up and I'm going to try and have enough for a month over there to get by and see if I can find anything?

Is there sort of clearance you have to get to work in the UK?

MrMatisse

No clearance but the jobs situaition is bad over there too. The Irish address will not help.

You can just rent a mail forwarding addresss if you dont want to move over yet.

Magenta

Be advised that you can claim your Irish dole over there, so look into that. You will get the same amount you get here.

Trashbat

Hey OP,

My advice (i moved over a while back), would be to move over and expect to work in the lower end service industry (pub, shop, cafe etc...) for a while to cover your rent while you go about looking for work.

Graduate programmes are very competitive, and have thousands of applications, so if you don't have a 1st in a specific skill based degree you could have problems.

I found work very quickly, but I have a fair bit of experience, however my OH was in your boat, coming from completing a non-specific masters with no experience. She took the tactic of pounding the streets. Months of online applications were going nowhere, but a week of walking into recruitment agencies produced a very good job for her with a very good organisation.

It would be my opinion that the Job situation in London is far far better than Ireland (and the rest of the UK).

Ouchette

+1 to everything Trashbat said. My experience of moving over was much the same.

London's doing fine overall, but that covers a lot of variation between groups of people, industries and areas, and the new graduates without experience seem to have been hit hardest. Take a look here for the unemployment stats by age group in different areas of London to see what I mean.

http://data.london.gov.uk/datastore/package/gla-claimant-count-model-output-2010

It won't be easy, but London's still a good option imo.

Magenta

OP, I'm PMing you a job that I know of over there. It's not amazing money but will do you for a while.

carolwarol

Hi there,

I suggest you check out all the vacancies advertised through work placement programme - www.fas.ie - following the links. Basically companies are taking graduates in this way - meaning they don't have to pay a wage for 9 months - but you can still claim your dole and you get max 9 months practical expereience. A paid position might come up while youre there or in the case that it doesn't you'll get good exp on the cV and be a step ahead.

good luck with job hunting!

clarelad

Magenta wrote: »

Be advised that you can claim your Irish dole over there, so look into that. You will get the same amount you get here.

Would you not have to be in ireland to physically pick up your dole every week?

LadyMayBelle

Hi OP, I'm here almost a month an still out of work; but most of that is to do with the fact my qualification has to come thru from Ireland; there are a lot of jobs in certain fields again and I see a few signs around my area looking for bar staff/kitchen porter/waiters..

Be warned with the dole though; I got a letter from the Irish social welfare people asking for my dole to be automatically continued once I moved over..it's been quite the kerfuffle and I haven't seen a penny yet, even though I sign on every fortnight. They say I need a National Insurance number before they know how much I can get, and I'm only having my interview for that next week. Therefore, have your savings, I wouldn't rely on getting that dole straight away...

Magenta

clarelad wrote: »

Would you not have to be in ireland to physically pick up your dole every week?

No. The Government do not expect you to when you have told them you will be in England!