work for legally qualified person

[Catfamily]

Hi, I need advice. Know that I must write a solicitors exam etc to be able to practise. But are the Britons negative to highly skilled people? All the legal
agencies I email, just dont reply, and I have mailed about 12.
Please advise to what I must do.
I am from South Africa, presently working as a state advocate for the prosecutors office. I do have years of experience. I dont want to write the exam, get a visum and the UK lawyers dont want expats working for them.What is your feedback please.

[MichelleAlison]

Originally Posted by Catfamily

Hi, I need advice. Know that I must write a solicitors exam etc to be able to practise. But are the Britons negative to highly skilled people? All the legal
agencies I email, just dont reply, and I have mailed about 12.
Please advise to what I must do.
I am from South Africa, presently working as a state advocate for the prosecutors office. I do have years of experience. I dont want to write the exam, get a visum and the UK lawyers dont want expats working for them.What is your feedback please.

Although I don't know about working visas and taking extra exams in order to be able to practice in the UK, I can tell you that the UK is a multi-cultural society and many of the professional people are not born in the UK. I read that every single nationality in the world is represented in London..........

Hopefully somebody can give you some good advice.

Regards

Michelle

[jlms]

My guess, based on experiences in a completely different line of work, is that they will not want to get involved with somebody that they can't collocate in a position immediately.

If you are not qualified to work in your chosen profession here, most agencies will just give you the cold shoulder (to be perfectly honest, how could they find a position for you if you don't fulfil the requirements to work in your chosen profession?)

I am sure once you fulfil all the criteria that would allow you to work here, agencies will become more approachable.

You may want to call them, email is easy to dismiss, but no so is a phone call.