Applying for US jobs from the UK

Has anyone had much luck with this? In your experience, are US companies willing to consider candidates (with US work experience) applying from overseas? Any hints/tips would be welcome.

Oh no!  Dent, are you already thinking of moving back?

A couple of months before we moved back to the US, I posted my resume on the main job sites (CareerBuilder, Monster, etc). So that US companies/recruiters could reach me, I got a US Skype phone number and linked it to my UK mobile so when they called me, it was seemless. It worked pretty well and I was able to set up some interviews and actually did a couple of phone interviews while I was still in the UK. You may ask why got a US Skype number....because a lot of people can't dial internationally from work.

I think most don't know how to dial international unless they do a google search.  A US number would just make things easier.  I've got my resume posted on monster.com and I didn't get that many responses, mainly due me only including an email address.  You also should renew/update your resume once a week so that you always seem interested.  If it's been a few weeks since you renewed your resume you will get less responses.

Second the above message... as a longtime lurker, dear me dent arthur dent!
Can't totally blame you. Been in the Uk five and a half years. It's an interesting place
but the U.S. seems so much happier. You really should try and stick it out a bit though.
Can't you give it six months, a year? Use the time for some European travel?

Second the above message... as a longtime lurker, dear me dent arthur dent!
Can't totally blame you. Been in the Uk five and a half years. It's an interesting place
but the U.S. seems so much happier. You really should try and stick it out a bit though.
Can't you give it six months, a year? Use the time for some European travel?

This is why I am booking a trip to a Christmas Market this year, like when I get home tonight!  Because who knows if I will be here next year after I get the passport, which I also like need to do tonight.  HA!

Second the above message... as a longtime lurker, dear me dent arthur dent!
Can't totally blame you. Been in the Uk five and a half years. It's an interesting place
but the U.S. seems so much happier. You really should try and stick it out a bit though.
Can't you give it six months, a year? Use the time for some European travel?

Thanks for the message -- someone told me before I came over that 'life in the US is easier, life in the UK is more interesting.' As a Brit myself I sort of accepted this as true, and although I can certainly agree with the first part, I have yet to really experience the second part. It's been great being near London, and I've been trying to take advantage of that as much as possible. Six months would be great, but one thing I am struggling with is that I am really looking to change career tracks, which would mean a couple more years of grad school -- if I get back to the States then I can get on with applying and maybe finding myself a place for next September. I'm in my mid-thirties already, and so I have this sense that time's a-wasting, and if I miss this year's deadline, then the whole process will have to be pushed back a year...

but one thing I am struggling with is that I am really looking to change career tracks, which would mean a couple more years of grad school -- if I get back to the States then I can get on with applying and maybe finding myself a place for next September. I'm in my mid-thirties already, and so I have this sense that time's a-wasting, and if I miss this year's deadline, then the whole process will have to be pushed back a year...

Are you serious?  Are your kids and wife just made from rubber?  My older two had a hard enough time moving 7 miles down the road and they are 6 and nearly 4.  I asked my eldest if we won a £12m lottery (LOL) shall we move back to the Eastern side of the country where my husband and she and her younger sister are from and she quite firmly insisted in the negative, that she was happy being a 'Heilander' (Highlander) 'for all the wet' and although she liked to make drawings of sunshine and flowers, she was quite happy with school, thanks muchly, 'I've moved house four times now, that's nigh on enough the noo (now), thanking ye, and yer only joking I nah (know) anyhoo.' 

Well that's you put in yer place, as my husband remarked.

Honestly, dent, you must be joking. 

He's already posted that is wife is absolutely miserable. There's a thread in Homesickness and Hard Times.

 DAD,
Didn't say that life in the UK is more interesting than in the US... just that it's interesting!
Not a day has passed since I moved to London five years ago that I haven't thought about going back to the US. It's a bit of a mania. My motives are not quality of life. I just feel like I left the place that made me tick for a kind of, I don't know, experience. So I can understand why you would want to go home to the UK, because being an exile is not for everyone. Perhaps you needed a whole set of rationalizations to go with that very understandable urge because you had acquired a family. People really are trying to have it all now, to nurse and understand every feeling. Once being an immigrant meant that you had permanently left home. Now it is not necessarily so simple, or so complicated. If your wife hasn't thrown herself off a bus she is coping reasonably well given the circumstances. (And the weather has been quite lovely). Now try to do what you had set out to do, and if it doesn't work you go home, wherever that might be.

If your wife hasn't thrown herself off a bus she is coping reasonably well given the circumstances. (And the weather has been quite lovely). Now try to do what you had set out to do, and if it doesn't work you go home, wherever that might be.

I think this is good advice.  It's hard to make decisions that will serve everyone's best interests when you are part of an international family.  From reading your posts during the decision making process when you were thinking of moving back to the UK, it sounded like this was a move you needed to make for yourself because you felt like an immigrant who needed to go home.  It has been very hard on your wife so far.  It may get better or it may not.  The two of you have more decisions to make about your wife's job and commute, and your career path, as well as a place to live with a school for your children etc.  I wish you luck with these decisions and hope that you find a place in whichever country where all of you can feel comfortable.