Fresh Talent Scheme

Is there anyone of you who are participating (or will be) in the Fresh Talent Scheme in Scotland?  The way I understand it, you get an additional 2 years on your student visa after graduation to find a job in your degree field.  Do I have it right?  In the rest of the UK, you have 3 months to find a job, which entails gettinng an employer to get you a WP. 

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I'm still on my student visa until next january. Am going to apply for the fresh talent when its up. It basically means you can live and work in Scotland for two years BUT you have to have graduated from a Scottish university in order to be eligable for it. HAve a friend who got hers this year and she's had a handful of jobs so far. But basically she'd LIKE to move to London but on her visa she has to reside in Scotland. This is because I think Scotland is desperate to keep folks within its borders. Anyway good for us tho

Sar

Thanks for the reply joymonster.  I agree, the Fresh Talent Scheme is awesome if you want the option of staying in Scotland after graduation and possibly settling there.  That is what i am hoping for.  I'm trying to get an idea of the job market in Scotland so I can plan a course study that will give me a degree that is in demand.  Any sites you would recommend?

Thanks for the reply joymonster.  I agree, the Fresh Talent Scheme is awesome if you want the option of staying in Scotland after graduation and possibly settling there. 

You'll need a work permit after the two years are up.

yea after 2 years you'll need a work permit BUT they are targeting scottish university graduates as a way of promoting scotland and hoping more people will settle here. The idea being you will have the time to find a job that will give you a work permit within that time.

as far as the job market... medical and computer jobs seem to be in demand. But I reckon thats an everywhere thing. Careworkers as well... not sure what sort of qualifications you need. What pays alot seems to be teachers, car mechanics, and business managers... depending on the business. The art world pays jack... but that's to be expected in any country. I suppose it really depends where you live. Edinburgh is crawling with demand for everything... but leave the city and its anybody's guess. Maybe agricultural sciences? Sheep? Urm. Yea.

Sar

Glasgow, being the largest city, has many more opportunities for work and is slightly less expensive than Edinburgh.

Anything care related - social work, nursing, allied health, some branches of teaching - will be extremely helpful w/getting the work permit you need after the 2 years, especially when you consider that Eastern Europeans no longer need work permits and have come here in droves. 

Yea Glasgow may have more opportunities but Edinburgh is prettier  and easier to drive in

Yea Glasgow may have more opportunities but Edinburgh is prettier  and easier to drive in

Ah, you must not have seen all of Glasgow.  I find it parts of it stunning - just as I find some choice parts of Edinburgh absolute ghettos - they're better at hiding their poor so the tourists and American students don't find out their nasty secret - I found that out the hard way (Trainspotting, anyone?  And I don't mean the quaint wee tour that leaves from the pub round the corner from our present home).  Certainly the area around Glasgow is some of the most incredibly beautiful countryside in the entire nation - which is handy if you need to commute into Glesga.

I live in Edinburgh myself, married a native and my kids are natives, too.  We'd move to Glasgow for a good job in a heartbeat, though.

Prefer driving in Glasgow, myself, found it better sign-posted and not as many obnoxious gits. 

Yea Glasgow may have more opportunities but Edinburgh is prettier  and easier to drive in

I think that Glasgow is much easier to drive in than Edinburgh, cos the streets in the city centre are all mainly on a grid system.   

I think that Glasgow is much easier to drive in than Edinburgh, cos the streets in the city centre are all mainly on a grid system.   

Much easier to get parked as well, IME.  It's very clear where you can and cannot park in Glesga, no looking over your shoulder and worrying if you'll get slapped w/a 30 quid fine.

yea yea... well I find that if I get goin in the wrong direction anywhere in Glasgow...it takes me a year to find any suitable place to turn around. So I'm lost for a total of an hour no matter what. HAve had more bad experiences than good ones on their grid system.

And all them one way streets. Argh. And the sweepin generalization about Edinburgh being prettier... oh poo. I'd prefer to live here full stop. Once a place is home... you have to stick up for it. So bah humbug to Glasgow and all of its wrongness. 

So bah humbug to Glasgow and all of its wrongness. 

 

And all them one way streets. Argh. And the sweepin generalization about Edinburgh being prettier... oh poo. I'd prefer to live here full stop. Once a place is home... you have to stick up for it. So bah humbug to Glasgow and all of its wrongness. 

What a lovely attitude!  It's a good thing there are plenty of Edinburghers who don't share it.  

Don't know where you lived in the US, but just about every city I lived in there had streets constructed on a grid system.  

As I like to say... anywhere I dont like driving in I won't like living in. Places I hate to drive. London. Glasgow. Detroit and Houston. This is one driver's humble opinion of the road works/ construction, bad signage, confusing one way systems and lack of order. I am entitled to this opinion and stand by my favourite places. Memphis. Edinburgh and Liverpool. I know every big city has its own problems and maybe I've just been unlucky enough to experience the problem areas of places that don't have that many in reality. Then again maybe I'm right and these are truly the worst places in the world to drive. Or maybe I'm a bad driver. Or maybe I've got a bad navigator. Or maybe I can attribute my frustrations to lack of navigator. My opinion is up to intrepretation and is due to circumstances and biases. But we've all got biases.

So... I quite like my attitude and I think its a good thing that somone is close minded enough to not be swayed to like something that they don't like.. for their own darn good reasons. So hardy har har. 

So hardy har har. 

Erm, right.  I'm creasin' myself. There's a real cracker. 

Well, deuchars (my FIL's fav IPA  ), back to your original query, the more open-minded and flexible you can be, all the better, but opportunities for gaining the work permit you will eventually need are abundant in the allied health and social work professions, in addition to any niche you might be able to carve.

Best of luck to you in your endeavour.