Get Support: Employment & Education
How do I find a job?
Please check out our guidance below. If you have specific questions, come to one of our meet ups (details here) or get in touch and we'll put you in touch with someone from our employment group.
8 steps to success :
1. Learn English as quickly as you can - this is always the most important requirement . It's hard but everyone learns in the end if they keep trying.
2. Think about what is your passion long term, and what you need in the short term in terms of money. As much as possible, build your passions into your life somehow.
3. Consider training while you are learning English or waiting to find employment.
4. Build yourself up with a a good CV (even if you have very little experience), we can help you with that.
5. Practice being interviewed, we can help you with that.
6. Be prepared to do work experience for free, it's often a good way in to paid employment.
7. Please check out the links below before you contact us.
8. Don't be disheartened if you get many rejections, this is common for everyone, not just refugees, you will get there in the end!
We've tried to save you time by collecting lots of useful information to help you, either with paid work or just work experience (free work that can help you get to paid work).
How do I get ready for finding a job? - Employment Support organisations
If the job application needs a DBS (Which checks for any criminal record) how do I get it if I haven’t been in the UK for 5 years?
It is not a requirement that the applicant must have had 5 years’ worth of address history in the UK in order to complete a DBS application form. Guidance for completing all sections of the DBS application form is on the DBS website. Section B of the application form must contain their current address, this is the address that their certificate will be sent to. If this address does not span a 5 year time period then section C must be completed. The relevant address completion guides are around pages 11/16.There is a specific section for those applicants who have no fixed abode. Summary -If at any time during the last five years your applicant has been of no fixed abode, they must supply some details about this in Section c. All they have to do is write NO FIXED ABODE in the address field and provide the town/city, the county and the country where they were during the period, remembering to use the prescribed date format. If they were of no fixed abode in more than one country, they must supply each one as a separate address using this same format.
Tools like sample cv's
Job searching websites - places where companies post their vacancies
Training opportunities, including many free ones
Join the Elmbridge Jobs Facebook group here - this is a group dedicated to sharing jobs that come up in and around Elmbridge.
8 steps to success :
1. Learn English as quickly as you can - this is always the most important requirement . It's hard but everyone learns in the end if they keep trying.
2. Think about what is your passion long term, and what you need in the short term in terms of money. As much as possible, build your passions into your life somehow.
3. Consider training while you are learning English or waiting to find employment.
4. Build yourself up with a a good CV (even if you have very little experience), we can help you with that.
5. Practice being interviewed, we can help you with that.
6. Be prepared to do work experience for free, it's often a good way in to paid employment.
7. Please check out the links below before you contact us.
8. Don't be disheartened if you get many rejections, this is common for everyone, not just refugees, you will get there in the end!
We've tried to save you time by collecting lots of useful information to help you, either with paid work or just work experience (free work that can help you get to paid work).
How do I get ready for finding a job? - Employment Support organisations
If the job application needs a DBS (Which checks for any criminal record) how do I get it if I haven’t been in the UK for 5 years?
It is not a requirement that the applicant must have had 5 years’ worth of address history in the UK in order to complete a DBS application form. Guidance for completing all sections of the DBS application form is on the DBS website. Section B of the application form must contain their current address, this is the address that their certificate will be sent to. If this address does not span a 5 year time period then section C must be completed. The relevant address completion guides are around pages 11/16.There is a specific section for those applicants who have no fixed abode. Summary -If at any time during the last five years your applicant has been of no fixed abode, they must supply some details about this in Section c. All they have to do is write NO FIXED ABODE in the address field and provide the town/city, the county and the country where they were during the period, remembering to use the prescribed date format. If they were of no fixed abode in more than one country, they must supply each one as a separate address using this same format.
Tools like sample cv's
Job searching websites - places where companies post their vacancies
Training opportunities, including many free ones
Join the Elmbridge Jobs Facebook group here - this is a group dedicated to sharing jobs that come up in and around Elmbridge.
Education Support
Displaced student opportunities UK - Study opportunities to support refugees and people seeking asylum in the UK to access university.
