Hello everyone,
I am a 26 year old "recently" (about a year ago) moved to London from Italy and I would need any piece of advice that anyone could give me.
I translated all my qualifications via Uk Naric, I passed the health&safety exam, passed the 17th edition exam, and got my ECS cards (white card - electrical labourer ).
Here is where my problems start. I don't have that much of experience when it comes to commercial/industrial work since I worked (that little that I have) in a shipyard in Italy, and I am "mostly" qualified in the network field (CAT5/CAT6/), telephones and some simple lighting and sockets.
All the jobs I tried to apply for are self employed, not having experience I am a bit afraid to go self employed. I don't mind starting from scratch as an electrician mate, develop and learn something new and then maybe one day go self employed.
I have a few questions that I would like you guys to help me with.
How does self employment work here? Because where I come from, self employment means you are basically on your own, your tools, your working our, your own boss, your own company. Seeing all of this job opportunities around on sites, it seems to me that I am missing something here.
Does anybody know any sites or any agencies that I can visit/contact to help me get what I need? Basically I need someone to employ me, train me and let me continue my electrical adventure with them.
Any qualification that might be worth getting?
I hope someone can give me some good advice, any kind of help would be greatly appreciated, and thank you all for reading this.
Patrik
I am a 26 year old "recently" (about a year ago) moved to London from Italy and I would need any piece of advice that anyone could give me.
I translated all my qualifications via Uk Naric, I passed the health&safety exam, passed the 17th edition exam, and got my ECS cards (white card - electrical labourer ).
Here is where my problems start. I don't have that much of experience when it comes to commercial/industrial work since I worked (that little that I have) in a shipyard in Italy, and I am "mostly" qualified in the network field (CAT5/CAT6/), telephones and some simple lighting and sockets.
All the jobs I tried to apply for are self employed, not having experience I am a bit afraid to go self employed. I don't mind starting from scratch as an electrician mate, develop and learn something new and then maybe one day go self employed.
I have a few questions that I would like you guys to help me with.
How does self employment work here? Because where I come from, self employment means you are basically on your own, your tools, your working our, your own boss, your own company. Seeing all of this job opportunities around on sites, it seems to me that I am missing something here.
Does anybody know any sites or any agencies that I can visit/contact to help me get what I need? Basically I need someone to employ me, train me and let me continue my electrical adventure with them.
Any qualification that might be worth getting?
I hope someone can give me some good advice, any kind of help would be greatly appreciated, and thank you all for reading this.
Patrik