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:

• http://www.milkround.com
• http://www.prospects.co.uk (service of English Universities)
• http://www.secondpost.com (for young employment mainly)
• http://targetjobs.co.uk (more a community)
• http://jobsadvice.guardian.co.uk (full of good advice)
• http://www.graduategroup.co.uk (information on sectors)
• http://www.get.hobsons.co.uk

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:

• Reed Employment
• Kelly Services
• Manpower
• Crone Corkill

For job search, you can also visit the Centre Charles Péguy (http://www.cei4vents.fr), a French centre and a reference in London.

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