Hello all,

So me and the missus have decided to bugger off and try and find work in Dubai. We're both dentists and so reckon we stand a half decent chance of finding well paying work in the emirate. However we're both quite young (25 years old) and have no UAE experience.

Ive been e-mailing loads of practices and sending out my CV in response to every job posting on Dubizzle, gulf news, naukrigulf, bayt....etc..etc. I think 25% of Dubai has a copy of my CV. Despite this I'm not much further forward. Over the last 3 months of searching ive been offered one job by a crook of an emirati, wanting me to work a 50 hour week in exchange for a jam sandwich, and a slightly better offer in Dubai Health Care City however the package on offer was pretty lousy.

So the plan now is to go for a 10 day holiday to Dubai where I intend to march up and down Jumeirah Beach Road and the likes with an arm full of CV's.

I just wanted to get an idea of what people think of this approach? Will I be taken seriously if I'm not hanging about in Dubai for months on end trying to kiss arses to get a step up? Is there anything more I can be doing or anything more effective? Better yet, does anyone here know of any positions?!

Looking forward to the responses.

Cheers

Manboobs

No idea, but love the username!

And welcome to BE

Bob you son of a bitch, you've moved my thread out of the main forum and now I cant rely on total strangers to spoon-feed me a job. How dare you.

You will find that we can knock people off their pedestals in all of the sub forums darling

Definately come over, even if you don't land a job, the weather is lovely now.

I know. The weather app in my iPhone is preset to Glasgow and Dubai. Quite a contrast when you flick between the two. The weather here for the last few months has been wind, rain, overcast and on average ~5 degrees. No wonder half of Glaswegians are on methadone, myself included.

Just make sure you detox before you come then..even traces in blood samples count for a min 4year prison term

lol, great news 2 more Glasgow folks in the UAE !!!!

Fingers crossed!

Dont know if I'll be visiting Dubai now as planned. Intended on staying with my brother for a week or two while I tried to arrange interviews. He's now been laid off and is coming home in a fortnight. Gutted.

Plenty of cheap places to stay in come over anyway!

Did you get any fortune in finding work? If you did, can you give us your words of wisdom?

Come. Pull up a chair. You're going to fit right in.