any boys or girls comming over?

In the last 2 months we've hired a few web / linux / perl style people.
senior dot net / sql programmer. few flash people and a few php people.

also, we've just hired the former CEO of AOL europe.

we are expcting to hire 5-10 more IT staff. salarys would be around £30k to £50k depending on experience.

so let me know if your in town and plan to stay for 12months+

ps. hunter need not apply

Lol i'll be over in early august but i have no IT training or experience :p irish passport etc... (can i clean your offices or something?? :p)

haha I am heading over to Ireland too, however I already have a job, earning phat lewt, euro lewt :D

I'll be flying business class weeeeeeee, 16 Aug, booked ticket today $6k one way!! Lucky work is paying

Start my job 21 Aug

so in, i'm already packing my bundy rum

also, we've just hired the former CEO of AOL europe.

poor you

also, we've just hired the former CEO of AOL europe.

Is it hard to resign?

that thing is hilarious.

I'd love to come over to the UK, but I'm in the same boat as boxhead... I don't have the irish passport though. I'm sure I'd be able to get one though, my mother was born in scotland and has dual citizenship.

Oh well, give me a few years.

mooby; what does your company actually do?

£30k to £50k???? WOW love the GBP converion on that - sadly London is expensive to live in

I'm coming over in October. No IT experience but I can fudge a resume :)

I heard if you want to make the moola in London you get into laboring.

sadly London is expensive to live in

It is, but you can live quite well on £50k in Londan, depending on your approach.

I'd love to come over to the UK, but I'm in the same boat as boxhead... I don't have the irish passport though. I'm sure I'd be able to get one though, my mother was born in scotland and has dual citizenship.

I don't think needing an Irish passport to work in the UK, I'm sure an Australian one will suffice.

I wasn't refering to getting an irish passport... I assume any form of UK passport would make things easier.

i'll most likely be over there within 12 months but i'll be doing concert production & audio not IT :p still once you've settled in give us a write up on whats what in the UK :)

Ive got a handfull of friends over there at the moment.

A couple are just about to depart to spain or somewhere because they cant afford to stay in london.

Seems to be the general concensus.

I wasn't refering to getting an irish passport... I assume any form of UK passport would make things easier.

I think it's easier because you can stay as long as you want - whereas on an Australian passport, you have to apply for a working visa which only lasts for 2 years?

i thought you didnt have to worry about that kind of thing with commenwealth contries..i might be wrong but i thiught you could just travle freely between these countries

sadly London is expensive to live in

Expensive in AU dollars yes, Ive heard it isnt so bad when earning the pound

I'm thinking of moving over for a year or so, maybe more. What other IT guys do you need ?

mooby; what does your company actually do?

we are www.photobox.co.uk. we print digital photos and post em out ext.

london isnt really expensive to live in when your on the pound.

rent for a good place is £100 a week. my food is about £50 a week. i cycle to work so i have no transport costs, or car costs.

so the rest of my pay goes to going out or travel.

I can put the photos into the envelopes and lick the stamps!! :p

I think it's easier because you can stay as long as you want - whereas on an Australian passport, you have to apply for a working visa which only lasts for 2 years?

thats right. being part of the commonwealth means s***! if your an aussie, kiwi or candian and speak english as your first language, than you can only get a 2year visa. (with restrictions)

if your some polish, lithuania, (romainian soon) then you can come here and work anywhere. its a joke. thats why its better to try get an EU passport like an Irish one.

haha boxhead. we have alot of poeple that do that. in fact, i got my mate who we call boxhead a job doing that! scary!

oh, that job pays abou £6-7/hr

I have my EU passport that's why I'm looking abroad :D

get me a job mooby. do you have any general IT tech type ppl to do internal s***

London is not expensive to live in at all, it all depends on where you live and what you do. Obviously you can try and live in like zone1/2 and pay a fortune, but a bit further out and its cheap as chips. Food etc is all very cheap as well, besides 30-50K would offest that immensely, very good salaries.

Its always great to see people who have never been here have such obsurd assumptions of what its like.

Edit: My company is always hiring field engineers, you'd need 2-3 years of general IT Exp, some qualifications, exp with windows servers, exchange, networks, etc all the usual. So if your comming over and have any of that let me know.

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we do epic, but we need another guy. also, we have an office and lab in paris now too.. so theres trips there.

I've got no set plans to travel as yet, although working over there is something I've been thinking of doing a lot lately. I've got a degree in multimedia(big whoop haha) so have done a fair bit of Flash programming and a little graphic design and have 18 months experience in a mostly asp.net/xhtml/css job. Would I be of any use? ... if I ever actually get around to going over there that is lol.

Also, for anyone interested in working abroad I just discovered that whilst commonwealth citizens (ie. australians) are allowed a working holiday visa for 2 years, we are only allowed to spend one year of that time working.

If you have you grandparents that were born there you can get a heritage visa that lasts for 5 years. That is what I am doing, it costs about 220 to apply. Just prove your link to your grandfolks and you are done. VEry handy to have and I must thank my grandfolks for been born there. I am headng over there next April to live.

viper thats the type of work I do and i've looked into this stuff i just have to get my ass into gear, quit my job and go there

i looked into this stuff last year and found out that commonwealth membership means jack s*** as people have already said ... so i got a Polish passport because of my dad being Polish so its much easier to get there with that? weird ...

yeah captian, your sorted with a polska passport.