Re: [Sheflug] Sheffield advice

[Guennadi Liakhovetski <nospam [at] ragingbull.com>]

Hi

I am Russian myself and I've got a Russian friend - Java programmer, who
recently had to change employment here, so, he sent his resume to a few
agencies, got a few interviews and got a job finally - I would say it
wasn't too difficult, although he did have a couple of unpleasant moments.
(e.g. Xerox in Cambridge agreed to hire him, SIGNED the contract, launched
the paperwork for a work-permit... but then they changed their mind - so
he lost about a month...) But I would've thought, for an American it
should be easier than for a Russian:-) You just apply, you say you are a
foreigner and you will need a work-permit, and if a company is prepared to
into the burden for you - they will. It's not too difficult these days,
but still smaller companies are trying to avoid this sort of 'problems'...

Good luck
Guennadi

On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Dave Mimno wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I'm a long-time linux user from America. My fiancee was recently accepted       
> to a graduate program at the University of Sheffield. I'd like to go with
> her, but I would need to find a source of income. Would anybody be able to
> tell me whether British companies regularly hire foreigners? What is the
> IT job market like in Sheffield currently? Most recently, I've been
> working with J2EE/Oracle web applications, writing JSP/Servlets, EJBs, and
> PL/SQL stored procedures. I also have experience with Perl, PHP and MySQL,
> as well as administrative experience with linux and solaris. Would I have
> a reasonable chance of finding some kind of employment? Would it be
> possible to commute to Manchester, Leeds, Nottingham, etc.?
> 
> Thank you very much for any help you can offer,
> Dave Mimno
> 
> (this is from a few days ago, but it would be "videtur", with an 'e' -- 
> 2nd conjugation verb :-)
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Dr. Guennadi V. Liakhovetski
Department of Applied Mathematics
University of Sheffield, U.K.
email: G.Liakhovetski [at] sheffield.ac.uk


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