Dinosaur Jnr

Probably questions you've all been asked before but... Have scanned all the FAQs and none-the-wiser!

My girlfriend has been offered, and accepted, a job in Dubai. I obviously want to go out with her but concerned about my job prospects. I have a good degree from a Uk university and now work in IT (degree not in IT tho!). I have no IT qualifications, just worked hard to get where I am. Are the chances of me finding similar work in Dubai as slim as I suspect? Also, will my visa application have to be totally seperate as we're not married?

Thanks!

Bob

There's a link to the UAE consulate, check that out...but I think you'd need your own visa outright if your not married...as for jobs, what's your degree in? because as people have said before, IT, dime a dozen, especially from India, cheaper to employ and highly skilled...so it's a tough one to get into, but you'll certainly have more luck looking while out there.

welcome to the site btw.

Dinosaur Jnr

Hmmm, figured that was the answer to both those questions! My degree is in Public Sector Management (it made sense at the time, honest); unfortunately it's pretty specific to the UK as UAE doesn't have a welfare state as such, and certainly no NHS which is what I specialised in! I just can't think of an application I can apply my qualifications to in Dubai.

Thanks for the reply, been reading through these forums for a while now and picked up a lot of useful info....

Bob

Well if you can wing general project managment, be really handy in the construction industry, loads of projects and hotels out there, so maybe that'll be a good area to look into, certainly as a back door into IT??

Dinosaur Jnr

Thank you, will keep that in mind. I've done a good few projects in my time so perhaps it might be a good idea to focus on the administrative, rather than the technical.

Either way, still looking forward to a better standard of living than we currently have in the uk