Work wanted Jobs London
March 17, 2008
The UK’s capital city, London has a total workforce of some 3.6m people, which rises by a further 6m when you factor in the Home Counties and the regions around London. Strongly based around the service industries, London also has a high concentration of technical, professional and managerial staff, compared to the rest of the United Kingdom. It’s also, of course, a magnet for migrant workers, with many coming to London to work for a period of years or permanently. The following are some useful links all relevant to ‘work wanted jobs london‘.
Jobcentre Plus
What used to be known simply as the JobCentre … This UK Government website has loads on searching for a job, benefit entitlements, programmes and services available to you, advice for parents helping their children into work, assistance for disabled people and carers, and tips on living and working in Europe. There is also information for EU workers coming to Britain.
Another Government website, DirectGov is full of information on holiday rights and pay entitlement, listings of jobs and careers in London, starting a new job, redundancy and leaving your old employment, National Insurance, Income Tax and Childcare benefits. This site goes off into a host of areas in fact, including green living in London, rights and responsibilities and even travelling around the city. An invaluable resource for those wanting work or jobs in London.
Check out your local newspaper, an invaluable source of immediate and part time work, as well as the main London papers, The Evening Standard, Metro, London Lite and thelondonpaper. See too the Guardian, which specialises in media and public service jobs.
If you’re coming to work from outside the UK, check out UK Visas and the Border and Immigration Agency, which will tell you where you stand, when you’re looking for work and jobs in London.
Recruitment consultancies and agencies are a crucial resource, of course.Check out the Recruitment and Employment Confederation, Agency Central which has links to loads of specialist and general employment bureaux, and the excellent Working Links, which helps those in the most deprived communities and sectors back to work.
You could even work for London itself, with a job at the Greater London Authority, one of the 33 London boroughs, Transport for London or the London Development Agency.
