Returning to UK after over 2.5 years in Germany

Hi everyone

I have been living in Munich since October 2008 and am returning by the end of August this year due to family reasons.  I am going to be moving to Birmingham so that I am close to family.

I have applied for a transfer to the London office of my current employer, but should it not work out, will be up for a new challenge as of 01 September.  The only thing is that I have never lived or worked in Birmingham before.  To be honest however, I am not scared of a challenge.  When I left the UK back then I neither had a job nor somewhere to live, I simply packed my suitcase and laptop and lived off the savings I still had.  I ended up being unemployed for 3.5 months, but am glad I can say I went through the experience.

I am a fluent German speaker, having an MA (Hons) with Distinction in Spoken German.  When this current stay in Germany draws to a close I will have lived in Germany for a total of about 6 years dating back to my uni days.  I have an MSc in Management (despite only previously attaining a GCSE in Business Studies) and recently joined the CMI as I knew a return to the UK was on the cards.  I am currently working as an Operations Specialist at the Munich office of a global top 7 US law firm.  In terms of professional experience I have a clear line of customer facing and operations roles in bilingual working environments, predominantly working for international companies.  My main skill areas are in process optimisation and project management.  Should the transfer not work out, this is something I would certainly be looking into, although HR has also drawn my interest of late.

I guess that's all I can say in the way of an introduction.