Curriculum vitae and covering letter in UK must be typed. Candidates should
develop the Professional Experiences part and be brief about civil information.
Organise your CV with first your latest professional experience, and keep at
the end your graduation and your hobbies. Moreover do not hesitate to fill 2
or 3 pages as English employers appreciate to have details of your previous
competences.
JobCentres are the National employment agencies. British
and European people can consult documentation and ask
for information. JobClubs are centres where employment
seekers have free access, for the purpose of finding
a job, to phones, photocopiers, newspapers and mail
services. This service is open for all EU inhabitants
but its success means some delay.
Unemployment benefits don’t allow you to survive…
and are about £200 pcm for 6 months.
For more information on the main routes to employment, our partner, Expertise in Labour Mobility, offers you a brief abstract of the main focused point of the labour market (click here to display).
Adverts and Agencies
Looking for a job in England is not as laborious as
in some other EU countries. The most accessible offers
come from:
- Newspaper magazines;
- Internet web sites and e-mailings;
- Recruiting agencies.
Most of the newspapers provide daily offers on specific
topics (e.g.: IT, finance, sales, marketing, education….)
such as:
- Metro (free paper available daily in underground stations);
- The Guardian (Monday= marketing, secretarial, Tuesday=
education, Wednesday= social and health work, Thursday=
science and IT)
- The Times - The Evening Standard
- The Daily Mirror
- Several local newspapers.
However, magazines have advertisements on their speciality
fields:
- Marketing
- Marketing week
- E commerce…etc.
The offers usually come from either companies or via
recruiting agencies working on the behalf of their clients
and acting as the first stage interviewer, thereby filtering
potential suitable candidates.
Both newspapers and magazines are sold by independent
newsagents or by big chains such as WHSmith
(http://www.whsmith.co.uk),
HMV (http://www.hmv.co.uk)
…
On the edge of e-commerce, the most lucrative recruiting
agencies provide web sites on which you have to register
to benefit from their offers;
- Jobserve (http://www.jobserve.co.uk/) -> the best and most important website if you are looking for a position in IT.
- eFinancial (http://jobs.efinancialcareers.co.uk)
- Jobsites (http://www.jobsites.co.uk)
- Online Recruitment (http://www.onrec.com/)
- Monster (http://www.monster.co.uk/)
- Jobs Unlimited (http://www.jobsunlimited.co.uk)
- Reed (http://www.reed.co.uk/)
- Hays Montrose (http://www.hays-montrose.co.uk/)
- Job Searchers (http://www.jobsearchers.co.uk/)
- Career Path (http://www.careerpath.com/)
- Career in Construction (http://www.careersinconstruction.com)
- Logistics-Executives (http://www.logistics-executives.com)
- ABRS (http://www.abrs.com)
- Diamond Resourcing (http://www.diamondresourcing.com)
- Adeptive (http://www.adeptive.net/eurolondon)
- Michael Page (http://www.michaelpage.co.uk)
- Skill Frame (http://www.skillframe.co.uk)
- Price Jam (http://www.pricejam.co.uk)
- First People Solutions (http://www.firstpeoplesolutions.co.uk)
They can often directly email you with details of positions
that you have previously expressed an interest in whilst
registering.
According to your relevant experience in a specific
field or industry, you should highlight it well in your
CV and in covering letters. The first step would be
to list as many agencies as you can and mail them a
covering letter and CV. Most of these agencies work
on computer based search engines that allow them to
extract key words from your CV and covering letter and
to match these with their client requirements.
Some of them will interview face to face in order to
have a more precise idea of what you want to do; some
of them will call you and interview you on the telephone.
Career Fair
Entrance is usually free, register online to visualise the different companies
and the list of conferences and workshop before the event.
Below is a list of some specialized website where to find information:
Quelques conseils: Arriver tôt (l'écoute est meilleure sans le bruit). Ne pas
oublier un petit paquet de CV à distribuer.
Temping work
Some agencies, for example:
For job search, you can also visit the Centre Charles Péguy (http://www.cei-frenchcentre.com), a French centre and a reference in London.
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