Hi,
It's a bit hard to condense my story in a few words but essentially I'm a Java developer (in my card my tittle was 'Senior Java Architect') who left a corporate job in Europe to live in Southeast Asia. Things didn't work out as I expected though and now I need to come back to the old Europe. I don't want to live here but, as usual, I need to pay my bills.
Since I'm going to be actively looking for opportunities in Asia, working as a contractor seems to be the best option. In my country, however, it's just impossible to find this kind of job: just perm positions.
I'm completely new to this way of working and to London.
I've three questions. Any help here would be *really* appreciated.
- My biggest problem is my spoken English. According to my English tutor, it'd take up to a month living in an English country to improve my terrible accent to something 'comfortable' for native speakers.
- My biggest asset is a really nice curriculum backed with strong quality references.
My approach will be to go for a junior position, to compensate the client for the lack of a real, good English. Before we had been working in my company with two French guys who barely spoke my local language. Now
The questions are:
- Based on your experience, do you think it's a realistic approach?
- Do you know people in this situation?
- Is the contractor world in London as dynamic as it seems (when you do some research in the web it seems a vibrant world with tons of different opportunities) or reality is completely different (low ratio of clients-to-contractors)?
What I'm trying to do is compare the "Internet-perception" to the real opinion of people actually working there.
Thanks in advance,
It's a bit hard to condense my story in a few words but essentially I'm a Java developer (in my card my tittle was 'Senior Java Architect') who left a corporate job in Europe to live in Southeast Asia. Things didn't work out as I expected though and now I need to come back to the old Europe. I don't want to live here but, as usual, I need to pay my bills.
Since I'm going to be actively looking for opportunities in Asia, working as a contractor seems to be the best option. In my country, however, it's just impossible to find this kind of job: just perm positions.
I'm completely new to this way of working and to London.
I've three questions. Any help here would be *really* appreciated.
- My biggest problem is my spoken English. According to my English tutor, it'd take up to a month living in an English country to improve my terrible accent to something 'comfortable' for native speakers.
- My biggest asset is a really nice curriculum backed with strong quality references.
My approach will be to go for a junior position, to compensate the client for the lack of a real, good English. Before we had been working in my company with two French guys who barely spoke my local language. Now
The questions are:
- Based on your experience, do you think it's a realistic approach?
- Do you know people in this situation?
- Is the contractor world in London as dynamic as it seems (when you do some research in the web it seems a vibrant world with tons of different opportunities) or reality is completely different (low ratio of clients-to-contractors)?
What I'm trying to do is compare the "Internet-perception" to the real opinion of people actually working there.
Thanks in advance,
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