Placement Search

  • Are you looking for work experience to gain relevant practical work skills, either as part of your course or during the vacation?
  • Are you planning to take a one-year Industrial Placement before completing your degree?

All relevant employment experience is highly regarded by employers.

Top Tips

  • 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. Many opportunities are either never advertised or perhaps not where you are checking. You should consider contacting employers on the possibility that a vacancy may occur in the near future, or that a post is created for you because you present yourself so successfully. Use the websites below for advice on how to find the jobs not advertised and instructions on networking, writing speculative letters and targeted CVs;

  • Use the right terminology. In the USA 'Placements' are known as 'Internships' and a 'placement student' becomes an 'intern';

  • Check course contacts developed from past student success.

Resources

www.bournemouth.ac.uk/careers
Bournemouth University Careers and Placements Service - click on 'Looking for a placement'. Check for employers visiting Bournemouth University and other employer or industry events being publicised.

www.work-experience.org

National Council for Work Experience

www.prospects.ac.uk
Graduate Prospects is the national careers site for students in higher education:

  • Drop down 'Communities' to click on 'Work experience'
  • Drop down 'Jobs & work' to click on 'Job hunting tips'
  • Drop down 'Jobs & work' to click on 'Explore working abroad'

www.get.hobsons.co.uk/advice/workexperience
Hobsons (publisher) graduate jobs and careers site

http://targetjobs.co.uk
GTI (publisher) graduate jobs and careers site

www.insidecareers.co.uk
Inside Careers (publisher) Graduate job service for professions

www.derby.ac.uk/careers/students/careernetworking.htm
University of Derby Career Development Centre 'Career Networking - the Art of Using Contacts'

www.prospects.ac.uk/links/countries

Graduate Prospects - country profiles

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