Originally Posted by sallysimmons

I think it would also depend how in demand your skills are. If you have unusual or particularly valuable skills, employers will be willing to jump through hoops to talk to you, but if you do a job that people here could do, it would seem less likely that they'd want to bother.

That said, I'm a big believer in ignoring 'the norm' and making things happen for yourself - if you try hard enough and get creative about how you approach the search, I don't see why anyone can't be successful.

One word of advice on resumes/CVs - ignore people who say there's a big difference between American and UK resumes. There used to be, but now UK employers expect a document that is almost entirely like an American resume. (Australians will need to cut their resumes down to a max of 2 pages if they have the longer version often accepted/expected over there). The only difference is the spelling and the need to use A4 paper settings on your computer so that UK recruiters can print your resume.

Originally Posted by hotscot

A forum for moving to the UK called move-to-england?

Originally Posted by windsong

Networking is supposed to be the best method of finding a job in the USA. I expect it is the same for the UK, although I wonder about that. I think it would be more difficult to network to find jobs in the UK. Any thoughts?