4 Major Ways To Get A Job In The UK

Migrating to the United Kingdom has always been most people’s dream, most persons from Nigeria and other countries of the world has gone on to lose valuable amount of money in the hands of fake agents all in their quest to migrate to UK. But the question here is this, “Is leaving your country to go to the UK the major problem?’.

Many migrants have been deported back to their countries from UK for their inability to get a job, which led to them not being able to fund their lifestyles and pay basic bills over there. Getting your visa to the UK is important, but getting a job alongside it seems to be more important.  Right in this article, we will teach you on how to get a job in the UK.

We also want to let you know that despite your educational level or level of exposure, be you a graduate, masters degree holder, or a student, it really takes time to get a job in the UK, we advice you get patient and hopeful when doing so.

Below are the 4 major ways to seek and get a job in the UK

• Online Application

Most common way to get a job in the UK is by online application, where you fill an application form, submit your CV and other required documents. This has always been the most used ways, and it has also contributed to the major reason most persons has failed to easily get jobs in the UK because there are many persons online vying for same position.

• Connection/Networking

The second most popular way people seem to use in getting UK jobs is through what we call Connection or Networking. This is usually done when you have someone who already lives in the UK, you have them make direct enquiries of vacant jobs and help you apply for it. This way has also been used by many persons in getting jobs in the UK. You let them know the type of job that suits you and the level of certificates you have, then they will have to use these information to search for a perfect job to match your credentials.

• Speculative Application

Due to the fact that most medium and small-sized enterprises doesn’t like making viral recruitment adverts, some job seekers tend to use the Speculative application format. This format means they have to approach business owners and employers to directly seek out opportunities. Some of the few sectors that doesn’t often advertise their vacancies are : Television and film sectors, journalism, publishing, broadcasting and so on. If you ever want to get employed in any of these sections mentioned here, we advice you utilize the speculative application approach.

• Recruitment Agencies

This job seeking method is now the most used by migrants in the UK. All you have to do is, find a job recruitment agencies which are now very rampant these days, submit your credentials, let them know the specifications of the kind of job you need, agree to their terms and let them do the searching and finding on your behalf.

Note: Some job sectors seems to thrive in specific cities than the others. So, before applying for a job, its advisable to know the perfect city where such job can easily be gotten. For example, if you seek to get a marketing and PR job, you should do so in cities like Manchester and Birmingham because that’s the cities where those job sectors thrive so well, while the Art and Creative job sectors thrive in London. Job sectors mostly do their recruitments in cities where it thrive so well so, it would be easier for a job seeker to get employed in cities where his/her job sector thrives.

Its always a risk to embark on your UK journey without securing a job for yourself especially when you have no one over there to house you an carter for your needs, doing so would only lead you to possible deportation. The UK isn’t a place you would be allowed to loiter around aimlessly in it’s streets. You should only start your visa process only after you’ve secured a job over there.

Some job recruitment processes takes more time and have more protocols than others. You will have to attend lots of interviews, either online or one-on-one interviews with your employers. So it’s advised you come clean in your CV information and application letters to avoid complicating issues for yourself and hampering your recruitment opportunities.