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 useful selection of general online resources.
Go to your Course Brief in this Guide for more targeted careers information links.
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 to graduate recruiters from the beginning of your final Top-up year.
If you intend to job hunt after completing your Foundation degree, you do not qualify for graduate-entry level job vacancies. However, 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.
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 could 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.
Useful Links
Windmills Interactive career coach - click on 'Windmills Interactive' box - click on 'Main Section' box - go to 'Section3 How do I help myself?' - 'Ten top tips for jobhunting'
www.prospects.ac.uk/job_hunting.htm
Graduate Prospects - national careers website 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/jobsandcourses
Graduate Prospects - digital magazine for current graduates
www.prospects.ac.uk/links/coprofiles
Graduate Prospects - employer profiles
www.prospects.ac.uk/prospectsfairs
South West region online graduate recruitment service supported by universities in the south west
http://jobseekers.direct.gov.uk/
Department for Work and Pensions online recruitment site
www.kent.ac.uk/careers/sk/CJ.htm
University of Kent Careers Advisory Service 'The Creative Career Search' for advice on speculative applications
The Recruitment & Employment Confederation. Search for employment agencies by clicking on 'I am a Jobseeker' and 'Find an Agency' box.
Hobsons/GTI Media graduate careers
GTI Media publication for graduate jobs and careers advice
Inside Careers publication - graduate jobs in 'Business & Management', 'City & Finance', 'Engineering & Technology'
Reed Elsevier publication - Career advice and Graduate Zone.
http://studentportal.bournemouth.ac.uk/career/
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.thepaperboy.com/magazines/
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