Work in UK

Mrs Garth Brooks

I finished college last year and I have been unemployed since. I'm fed up here. I have been applying to whatever jobs I'm qualified for and they always find someone more experienced. Its just too quite here.

Since March of this year, I have been applying to jobs in the UK and I have had alot more phone and skype interviews than I had interviews here. So that can only be a good thing. But still no job.

So far I have been applying to jobs in the big cities, Manchester, Birgingham, Edinburgh, Bristol. If I got work I am thinking that it would be easy to get to these big cities.

Thing is there's jobs in other towns and villages but I don't know how hard or easy it would be to get there. I would be relying on public transport. I like to think about how am I going to get there if I got work. So I have been avoiding these places. Not to mention, it could be like here and I would have to get two or three buses.

Am I thinking too much here or should I just fire off my cv regardless and think about how am going to get there after. Or is there a website similar to bus eireann and irish rail.

I am also thinking about going to Australia on the working holiday visa if i don't get work. But its work that i want and the UK is the place for it. Should i hold out for work or just go. It'll be a year on the working holiday visa and by the time I come back, I would be over two years out of work or two years without experience. There is no option for a longer visa. So would that look bad when I come back?

enda1

Google maps has most of the UK public transport integrated.

Use the UK postcode for the place of employment as the destination and a nearby city as departure point. You can then see very well what a commute would look like. Car sharing is also very popular in the UK for going to work. So if you are in a nearby city to teh place of work, there will most probably be people offering car shares who would take you on for a monthly fee.

Best of luck.

ABajaninCork

I'd decide what you actually want to DO first. Do you want a working holiday or do you want to go straight to work? If you're going on a working holiday, then great. Will you be able to get work in your field to add experience to your CV??

If you want to go to work, then research very carefully where you want to go first. Do you want to go to London, Bristol, Birmingham, Manchester? Or do you want to go further north like Newcastle, Edinburgh or Glasgow? Bear in mind Edinburgh can be as expensive as London! Do you know the best areas to go to for YOU?? Once you've narrowed that down, then searching for work will be much easier.

Do you know of any specialist websites for your field you can sign up to?

sock puppet

If you're applying to a small town you should check that you can get there easily enough from major airports. Ended up having to cancel on an interview for a job on the south coast as flying in to Southampton would have cost me around £400 and flying to London and getting the train down would have meant a two night stay over!

damenotre

Hi,

Am starting to look for work in the UK. Am so frustrate at lack of progress with jobs in Ireland. I am looking in London. I am wondering whether i should build up a relationship with recruitment agencies in London(am prepared to move anywhere in UK - but there appears to be more work in London I have been reading posts about not having a UK address when applying from Ireland. This has to make a difference. Any tips anyone?

Also is there a good recruiter who understands the Irish plight and is prepared to help. I have found recruiters here in Dublin to be poor as they are terrible at communicating even it is constructive.

Can anyone suggest is it better to go over for a week to organise appointments to see agencies.

If anyone has any advice please let me know as i have to get something sorted quickly

enda1

What's your field Damenotre?
It's almost impossible to give advice without knowing your personal circumstances.

For me, I lived in Belgium when I decided to move to London about two years ago. I applied for a job at about 6p.m. CET and got a call about half an hour later. This was on a Tuesday. The next Monday I had an interview and got the job on the Tuesday. So a week from application to acceptance.

For others it can not be so easy. I found the recruiters I've worked with very good (mechanical engineering). But in other industries I know they are not. It all depends.

rainbow kirby

For looking for London software development roles - I just used Monster/Jobsite/CWJobs, applied for a few roles I was interested in and uploaded a CV and let the recruiters come to me. I found that a lot of companies were willing to do a good proportion of the recruitment process remotely - phone interview for most of the HR components, online technical tests or producing a code sample overnight etc. Face to face interviews tacked onto normal weekends with the OH over there so that I only really needed to take a day off for them at most. Never really bothered going over for a full week of agencies.