[sdiy] help: jobs/companies in London

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Get a good CV, put it up on monster.co.uk with a telephone number up
at the top, and await umpteens of phone calls from recruiters. The
jobs from recruiters usually pay OK money. Make sure to put a lot of
keywords in your CV, since they find the file by using a full-text
search in the database. Make sure you can be on the phone all the
time. Keep telling them you're in zone 2 (according to the London
Underground zoning), people don't want commuters coming all the way
from heathrow or something like that.

Upload a new verson of your CV on very late Sunday evening or early
Monday morning (around 7am), so that it comes up in the searches
earlier. If you don't find a job, update it next week again (just
upload the file again).

Generally recruitment works in week long "sprints": you get a
phonecall in the first half of the week, an interview is set up around
wednesday-friday, and by the end of the week or by the end of next
week you know if you're hired.

You really want to recruit for as many jobs at the same time as possible.

Make sure to get taken to as many interviews as you can, even if the
job isn't immediately interesting to you, because you need to learn
the interview process. And make sure to find a drycleaner near where
you live for your suit and white shirts. A tie is also necessary.

Also watch out with the recruiters, they're animals, and need to be
treated like that - never trust them, and don't follow their deceipts
:)

Come up with a number for the salary you're interested in and stick
with it. Make sure to mention the same amount to everyone, otherwise
they'll find out and will only start coming to you with the lower rate
(there's good communication between recruiter companies and they
illegally share your info between eachother anyways, you have to put
up with it, no big deal tho).

For housing search house shares on gumtree.co.uk. Try to be in zone 2.
You can find rooms in house shares for as low as 60 GBP/week..

Also check out the London Hackspace. You can find info on the
internet: london.hackspace.org.uk - lots of people who are into
electronics, and maybe you'll find a lead for jobs there. They also
have a fairly prolific irc channel on freenode.

HTH
D.

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 21:29, Miro Merlak <miro.merlak at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you Graham!
> I found some interesting posts on this job website..
> Anyone else some other suggestions?
>
> Cheers,
> Miro
>
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Graham Atkins <gatkins at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>> Electronics jobs in the UK......
>>
>> Not a great time.
>>
>> For audio Cambridge is the place to be.
>>
>> Try this :-
>>
>> http://www.thecareerengineer.com/
>>
>> Graham
>>
>> On 26 Aug 2010, at 12:25, Miro Merlak wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am moving to London in Sept 2010 and I will be looking for a job.
>>> So I wanted to ask you guys for help/advice...
>>>
>>> I have Master's degree in EE (specialized in architectural and
>>> electro-acoustics)
>>> + I did 1-year audio engineering diploma course.
>>> But last 3 years I've been working as software engineer/tester in
>>> telecom/IT industry.
>>>
>>> I would like to change my career from software to hardware,
>>> but anything audio-related would be ideal!
>>> General industrial-electronics are also my interest... etc.
>>> No working experience in that area, but I want to make a fresh start...
>>>
>>> Does anyone have some suggestions? Industry job search websites?
>>> Maybe recommend a company? Any advice would be helpful!
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Miro
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