Re: Opportunities in U.K./Great Britain?

From: Stephen Kellett (snail_at_objmedia.demon.co.uk)
Date: 07/31/04 

Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 17:57:36 +0100

In message <2793a24f.0407310704.7b0a7497@posting.google.com>, Rick
Osborn <rickandthuy-dc@yahoo.com> writes
>How do you see the demand for an IT person from the States?
>Equal? More, less?

Compared to whom? Indigenous people? For what task? It is too general a
term.

Less I would guess. As I asked in a previous reply, what makes people
from the States better/worse than those that are here? Without an answer
to that question, or a better phrased question, the question is
meaningless. People don't hire based on the fact you are Iranian or
American. They hire based on your abilities and other attributes. I'd
imagine nationality comes close to the bottom, except in security jobs.

Given the paperwork involved in getting you over here when there is a
huge population in the EEC that can move at will (as there are in the
States that can move at will from State to State) it seems like a
none-starter unless you have some particularly wonderful skill set that
is in short supply over here.

You may have more luck in The City (London financial district), but
frankly your lifestyle will be horrible. See my more detailed rant on
London earlier in this thread.

Stephen 

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