Vaughan Green

I have also been in IT in Thailand for the last 20 years. I have never had trouble getting work. But you need to network and develop contacts with people in the industry. If you don't need to land a job as soon as you arrive, then you can take the time to meet people in IT here and put the word out that you are available. Obviously, the more people you know, the better chance you will find something up your street that pays a decent wage.

If you really have good project management skills, I would shop those around first. There is plenty of work here. As anywhere else these days, universities are simply not producing enough qualified IT and computer science people to satisfy demand. It certainly isn't super easy breaking into the industry here, but it can be done. A solid skill set in project management or a current, in-demand technology is what will get you in. Good luck!

Thanks for that, at last a bit of positivity :-) Could you recommend to me any agencies and agents in particular who could help me please?

My current plan is to take a TEFL course and try to get an English teaching job for when I arrive. I'm told that it's hard to get one without a degree, but I know for a fact that there are many English teachers out there without even the TEFL. Maybe it's just got harder in the past few years.

To our OP.

What are your actual skills? "IT" covers such a vast job market that one has to be rather more specific than just "IT".

There are positions for expats but they can be very niche market.

With 40 years in the game you ought to have a broad base of knowledge and skills, eminently employable but you'll need to give us a little more information.

40 years of experience could also be AS400, mainframe and cobol...

Thanks for your replies, chaps. I've done the lot over my 40 years: 5 years in operations, then from '81 onwards, analysing and programming in Cobol, Fortran, Adabas/Natural, Lotus Notes/Domino (25 years on that, still current), and for the past 2 years migrating to Sharepoint/Office 365 (which is growing rapidly and the place to be right now, seemingly). Most of this time was spent freelancing, I've worked long spells at over 10 different companies, including Banking and insurance, manufacturing, consultancies.

Along the way learned how to Project Manage, and have good 'soft skills' and communication.

I don't speak Thai but I couldn't find a job in an English-speaking office I had planned to employ a good bilingual developer/sales person and let my wife own the 51% company.

I'd apply directly but it's hard to find out these days what platforms companies develop on, back in the day you could refer to the Computer Users' Year Book but now you have to rely on Agencies (spit).

Hello, I'm new here so not sure if this is the right forum, so please correct me if I'm wrong.

I'm an IT guy with over 40 years experience in the field.

I want to marry a Thai lady (my fiancee) and live in Bangkok.

Will I be able to find IT work (English speaking) or would I have to start my own business and employ Thais in order to be able to work in Bangkok?

Many thanks

Vaughan