IT in London.

jank

Right im planning to head of to London if I cant get some IT work in Cork.
Its pretty slow down here at the mo put it is picking up, however there is no way in hell I am going to work in Dublin (these reason have been aired in another thread ).

So London appears to be the best choice for a budding IT graduates like me at the moment.

Thing is, alot of job sites state UCAS requirments which is the English LC system.
Does anybody know the Irish equivilent of it e.g.
300 = 20 UCAS
400 = 25 UCAS

or something like that!

Any other advice about London would be good too.

penexpers

Interested as to why you don't want to work in Dublin but want to work in London. As far as I'm concerned all the problems with Dublin are magnified a hundred times over in London.

daveirl

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jank

Cause its full of dubliners.

Seriously though just think London would appeal to me more. There seems to be much more oppertunities there then here in Ireland and if I wasnt working in my native city then id prefer to work abroad and get a much better life long experience in the mean time. Plus Arsenal are there too!

Not really there's a far better transport network in London.

EDIT: Snap! Thats definately true and one of the many other reason that London appeals to me more then Dublin but I dont want to drag this thread into a Dublin Vs Rest of Ireland discussion, there is plenty of room for that in after hours.

Anyway any help with regard those pesky UCAS points or good pointers for moving?

nessa

http://www.cao.ie/app_scoring/app_scoring.htm

Gives what you're looking for - just click on the link for scoring system. Hope this helps.

jank

The link is rather confusing

damnyanks

www.ucas.ac.uk has a points calcuator somewhere. Usually they don't really matter. I applied to many companies this year that required specific points which I did not have, got offers / interviews

jank

Did you manage to land something half decent?

WhiteWashMan

penexpers wrote:

Interested as to why you don't want to work in Dublin but want to work in London. As far as I'm concerned all the problems with Dublin are magnified a hundred times over in London.

being a massive city it certainly shares it ceratinly has its problems that all large cities have, however, imnot sure what problems that it really shares with Dublin.

that being said, i have no idea what a UCAS is

you might try contacting stu69. he is an IT manager in london and may be able to give you some advice

jank

Cheers WWM although are you sure its stu69. I did a search for him there as a user and nothing turned up. Maybe a mis spelling no.

rick_fantastic

eh if ur an it graduate would it really matter what u got in ur leaving cert???

im mean u have a certificate/diploma/degree or whatever

WhiteWashMan

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/member.php?userid=1550

damnyanks

jank wrote:

Did you manage to land something half decent?

Working in IT at a large investment bank. Got in ahead of students from the well known uni's over in the uk as well