Ability to continue to work in your chosen field in the UK
You will also need to show to the HSMP Team that you will be able to work in your field of activity or your chosen field in the UK. You can prove this if you have an employment offer letter from an employer in the UK or if you have been invited for personal interview by an employer in the UK.
While this is a preferred method to prove that you can continue to work in the UK, it will not always be possible to obtain this type of documentary evidence unless you are already in the UK or your existing employer has UK operations and they are willing to employ you in the UK.
We have a few suggestions for you in this regard. Since UK employers, in
general, are not willing to consider your application unless you have existing visa status in the UK which allows you to work, most of the time your application will not be considered or shortlisted. The recruitment process in the UK is still very conservative and the telephonic interviews etc. are not used much but the employers prefer to have one or more personal interviews before you are selected for any position. More so, when you are applying for the senior position.
In view of this, you will need to prove that there is demand for your skill set in the
UK and that you will be able to find a job once you arrive in the UK.
The best way to achieve this objective is to search the Internet for UK Job Sites.
We are giving you a small list of Job sites below so that you can visit these web
sites and search the jobs posted on them suitable for your education and
experience. Most of these sites allow free registration for the job seekers and we
would suggest that you register with at least 2-3 web sites and upload your CV.
The web sites are
http://www.jobserve.com,
http://www.monster.co.uk/,
http://www.totaljobs.co.uk/jobseekers/totaljobs.asp and
http://www.reed.co.uk/ .
Please search the jobs that match your education and experience and take the
printouts for a few of them. These advertisements will help you in proving that
there are jobs available for skills you possess and also to show what kind of
earnings you will have in the UK.
If you have a secondary level of skills also, you can try and search for jobs
matching that second set of skills also. To give you an example, suppose you
are working as Chief Accountant in your present job, and you are also
participating in classical musical concerts on part time basis or occasionally, you
can find out opportunities for similar assignments in the UK.
Take the web page of the job sites where you register to show how many jobs
are posted in your chosen field of work. This will help you in providing the
statistics that many jobs matching your skills are available in the UK and it will
not be difficult for you to find a job once you reach the UK.
If you have an access to the UK newspapers and magazines through your local
library or British Library in your city, you can take the photo copies of the job
advertisements in your chosen field of work and enclose the same to show that
there is demand for your skills in the UK and you will be able to start working
once you arrive in the UK.