Job Search

  • Are you planning ahead for graduate-entry opportunities or thinking of applying for jobs without completing an honours degree?

This section directs you towards a selection of general online resources.

Top Tips

  • If you are studying on a Foundation degree and intend to continue on to complete an honours degree, you will need to be ready to make applications from the beginning of your final Top-up year to regular graduate recruiters. If you intend to job hunt after completing your Foundation degree, you do not qualify for graduate-entry level job vacancies, though these same employers might well be interested in your application for other posts;

  • Start by ensuring you are up-to-date on your preparation, with a positive relevant CV and covering letter. If you are applying to graduate recruiters, you must expect to encounter graduate application forms and possibly graduate aptitude testing. Go to the section on Job Applications for sources of help;

  • Be proactive and consider contacting employers with a speculative application. Many jobs are never advertised. A vacancy may occur in the near future, or a post be created for you because you present yourself so successfully;

  • UK and other EEA citizens (from European Economic Area countries) are free to live and work in any EEA country and Switzerland;

  • Go to your Course Brief in this Guide for more targetted careers information links.

     

Resources

www.windmillsonline.co.uk/

Windmills Interactive career coach - click on 'Windmills Interactive' box - click on 'Main Section' box - go to 'Section3 Ten top tips for jobhunting'

www.prospects.ac.uk/links/jobhunt/

Graduate Prospects - online national careers service for HE students studying in the UK

www.prospects.ac.uk/links/finalist

Prospects Finalist digital magazine for job-hunting final year degree students

www.prospects.ac.uk/links/jobvacs

Graduate Prospects -  job vacancies for current graduates

www.prospects.ac.uk/links/coprofiles

Graduate Prospects - employer profiles

www.prospects.ac.uk/prospectsfairs

www.prospects.ac.uk/links/abroad/

www.gradsouthwest.com/

Regional online graduate recruitment service supported by universities in the south west

www.jobcentreplus.gov.uk/

Department for Work and Pensions - click on 'Looking for a job?'

www.kent.ac.uk/careers/sk/CJ.htm

University of Kent Careers Advisory Service 'The Creative Career Search' for advice on speculative applications

www.rec.uk.com/

The Recruitment & Employment Confederation.  Search for employment agencies by going to 'I am a Jobseeker' - click on 'Find an Agency' box.

www.get.hobsons.co.uk/

Hobsons/GTI graduate careers publication

http://targetjobs.co.uk/

GTI publication for graduate jobs and careers intelligence

www.insidecareers.co.uk/

Inside Careers publication - graduate jobs

www.totaljobs.com/

Reed Elsevier publication - Career advice and Graduate Zone. Also go to 'Career advice' for 'Jobseeking plus'.

www.bournemouth.ac.uk/careers/

Bournemouth University Graduate Employment Service

www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/eucitizens/

Home Office UK Border Agency - rules on EU citizens living and working in the UK

www.themagazineboy.com/

Search by subject for links to specialist magazines for job ads

www.thepaperboy.com/

Links to 5000 online newspapers worldwide - search on UK (for national and local papers) or by country and select your language. Use a Jobs search for recent job adverts.

www.thomsonlocal.com/

UK searchable online directory

www.yell.com/

UK searchable online directory

www.kompass.com/

Global searchable directory

www.kellysearch.co.uk/

Global searchable directory - select industry sector

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