The Job Quest
I will try to explain here all the steps you have to follow to my mind if you want to find a good job. You are going to see that this page is the longer page of this website, I think the job quest is the key subject which will have consequences in your entire experience...
Be well-prepared
Before starting to search a job, you must be ready. Efrei English teachers will help you during one year to make your best curriculum and your best cover letter for example. They will also teach you the vocabulary you will need and they will also give you tips and advices. You have to work with them seriously and you will win times in the future...
The beginning
If you want to spend good time from the first day in London without stress and without money, you had better to find a job before arrive. It is not the easiest way to find one, but I'm sure that it is the more intelligent.
To succeed in this mission, the more effective way according to me is to talk with ex-L3 students who had good relation with their bosses. For example, if you speak to me or one of the 8 others students who work in the same company of me, we will tell you to contact Rila Publications Ltd and try to impress them! If you speak with others students, they will help you if they can.
If you don't find anyone to help you, it will be difficult to find it by other ways
like Internet. I heard from friends who search on the web that they had
loosed precious time to answer to offers without answers. I think it is difficult
to explain that you are going to stay only 3 months in London and that you
want a day off each week for you UCL Day, etc.
Managers prefer to control be sure of everything, to control each parameters. It
is why you have less chance than people who are native Engish-speaking people living
in London, or Efrei students who decided to begin the experience two months before
the others in my case...
Job hunting
If you arrived in London without a job, the best solution will be to become a hunter...
Job hunting is not very difficult in London, all my roommates found a job in less than 2 weeks, some found one in less than 2 days. London is the city where you can find a job in the street the morning, but where you can be fired also in one day...
You weapons
To be a good job hunter you need:
- One handbag with enough curriculums and cover letters,
- good shoes in order to support several kilometers each days,
- a lot of organisation in pointing particular target (IT, restaurants, offices..) for each day for example,
- time (but unemployed have time),
- patience, perseverance, and courage...
What about my personal experience? I talked to the good person (one of my roommates) in the good time (when his company wanted to hire a web developer). The day after, I earned my first pound. It is an other solution to find a job in London...