Hey peeps,
I have a mate who is planning on heading over to the UK in summer from Aus to learn what good lager and decent curries are .

He has a shed load of good experience in the IT industry along the following lines

Project management – Hotel PABX / computing infrastructure deployment, Switching upgrade to 8 Site WAN (1000 node), Pabx / computing infrastructure deployment new theme park, switching upgrade to Movie Studio environment (17 site / 700 node)

Software & Hardware – Windows NT/2000/xp (migration, deployment and administration), exchange 5.5/2003 (migration, deployment and administration), MS products (ISA, SMS, IAS, IIS) Cisco switches / routers, HP procurve switches / routers

What advice would you give him about looking for a bit of temp work for a few months?

Any help greatly appreciated

 

To narrow down his fields of experience. The UK IT market prefer specialists for well-defined roles, he'll be looked on as a liar.

Seriously, you can't be a good project manager, cisco engineer and exchange specialist at the same time.

 

KiwiGTI,

with 7 or 8 year in the industry I think you would want more than knowledge on how to change IP addresses His main experience comes from the hospitality industry and he was the IT manager for the Versace hotel in Queensland for a while.

 

have a look at www.jobserve.co.uk

 

You asked for advice. I have extensive experience in Melbourne and the UK and have contracted in IT for the last 14 years.

Australians tend to be generalists, in the UK they prefer specialists.

 

now I get what you mean KiwiGTI . Interesting point and I will pass that info along to him. Thanks for the link foot tapper.

 

Agreed ! If he does'nt mind hard work for lowish money the investment banks are always looking for people to do european support roles circa £250 per day, so all expenses paid Europe grand tour

Rich

 

KiwiGTi I'm going to be going to melbourne next year on a years work visa. I have an MCSA/MCSE, will finding IT work be any trouble?? Do you have any advice for me??

Thanks,

Scott.

 

I left 6 years ago, similar to London but a lot less wideboys in the industry, most agencies are pretty honest.

 

cheers dude.