Finding automotive jobs or motor trade jobs in the UK, starts with the job seeker having a decent CV, which the job seeker needs ready to either upload to a job site or to hand over to a recruiter at the first stages. Many job seekers still think that they will only need a CV once they secure an interview. Recruitment has changed – all job sites including those in the UK require a CV. This includes Motor trade jobs too – be it if you wish to work in car sales, vehicle dealerships, as a vehicle mechanic, auto electrician, an MOT tester – any of these professions, you will need a decent CV to market you effectively as good potential employee.

Your automotive CV needs to be about 2 pages in length and needs to detail your responsibilities to date along with your achievements within each role. At the end you need to detail your skills, education and training to-date. Usage of keywords important to the motor trade jobs you are applying for need to be sprinkled through the CV. So if you are looking to get into car sales, you need to talk about your sales targets and achievements, using figures to demonstrate your successes. If you are a auto mechanic, you need to talk about what work you have done and the model of vehicles you have worked on. Once you have finished your CV, you can then move onto the next step – your job search.

Motor trade jobs is a sector that is dominated by a few recruitment agencies in the UK, who is dominated by agencies like Perfect Placement. Their site is excellent and while a job seeker can apply for a job on their site, they seem to use a few job sites like CareersandJobsUK and Inautomotive – the former is a generalist job site which a has a dedicated motor trade jobs area, while the later is a dedicated automotive job site. Register with both and allow their advertising clients to find you! Good luck!