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 potential sources of help.
Top Tips
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If you are continuing on to successfully complete an honours degree and interested in applying for top companies, you will need to be ready to make applications from the beginning of your final year. If you withdraw from degree courses at this stage, you do not qualify for graduate-entry level job vacancies, though these same employers might well be interested in your application for other posts;
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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;
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Many jobs are never advertised. You should consider contacting employers with a speculative application, 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;
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UK and other EEA citizens (from European Economic Area countries) are free to live and work in any EEA country and Switzerland.
Resources
www.prospects.ac.uk
Graduate Prospects is the careers site for higher education students in the UK:
Drop down 'Jobs & work' and check out 'Job hunting tips' 'Search job vacancies' 'Find graduate employers' 'Explore Working Abroad'
www.prospects.ac.uk/links/finalist
Prospects Finalist digital magazine
www.prospects.ac.uk/links/graduate
Prospects Graduate digital magazine for current graduate jobs, news, fairs and courses
www.prospects.ac.uk/prospectsfairs
www.gradsouthwest.com
An official website for higher education in the Southwest - use the online job service for students and graduates
www.get.hobsons.co.uk
Hobsons (publisher) Graduate Employment and Training
http://targetjobs.co.uk
GTI (publisher) graduate jobsite
www.insidecareers.co.uk
Inside Careers (publisher) graduate jobsite
www.bournemouth.ac.uk/careers
Bournemouth University Careers and Placements - click on 'Job Hunting'. Use for Careers Fairs, Campus Careers Events, External Events.
www.jobcentreplus.gov.uk
Department for Work and Pensions:
- Go to 'Looking for a job?' and click on 'Search for a job' for access to a national database with a wide range of job vacancies - search by job type, job title and location;
- Go to 'Job Hunting Help' and click on 'Executives, Professionals & Graduates' for useful summaries on 'Where should I look for Vacancies' and 'Graduate Recruitment';
- Go to 'Looking for a job?' and click on 'Working or Training in Europe' for information by country. International Jobsearch Advice Team for enquiries on finding work abroad.
www.jobseekers-uk.com
The Recruitment & Employment Confederation - click on 'I am a Jobseeker' to 'Find an Agency'
www.europe.hobsons.com
Careers in Europe - search for a graduate employer, country profiles and job-seeking advice
www.prospects.ac.uk/links/countries
Graduate Prospects - country profiles
www.derby.ac.uk/careers/students/careernetworking.htm
University of Derby Career Development Centre 'Career Networking - the Art of Using Contacts'
www.kent.ac.uk/careers/sk/CJ.htm
University of Kent Careers Advisory Service 'The Creative Career Search'
www.themagazineboy.com
Search by subject for links and specialist 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.windmillsprogramme.com
Windmills Interactive careers site
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
