JACKY123 wrote:If I apply from Ireland and I am not getting much responce from Agents or employers. Do you think will make any differnce if I try from England ?
Are you saying you have applied or are you just asking? I put my CV out to a few job sites before I left South Africa and the amount of calls I received blew me away. I made it very clear on my CV that I was not yet in the UK - several agents just sent me emails, asking me to contact them, but most just phoned me.
You have to just make sure that you have some sort of goal (e.g a week in which you can spend attending F2F interviews), because all my calls were to arrange for interviews once I'd arrived.
Having looked for BA jobs myself, I can tell you what the market was like between February and April - there were lots of jobs in the London area. I had a couple of jobs in Hertfordshire (but needed to be within commutable distance to London) and only two in Essex (I initially stayed in Essex, so my CV said Essex). However, these offers were despite making it clear that I wanted a central London job.
The only thing with insurance companies (especially London), is that they tend to think and act like they do insurance like nowhere else. There are lots of companies with sickeningly big egos.
Other than that is that there are LOADS of jobs out there for the taking. I could have easily attended interviews at about 12 to 15 different companies and probably took around 5 to 6 calls a day for two months. Initially I attended every interview, but you end up having to be picky, because there are a lot of time-wasters out there too (low pay being the most frequent reason for rejecting an employer).
