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 general online sources of help.
Go to the Course Briefs section for additional sites with direct relevance to your course subject.
Top Tips
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If you are studying on a Foundation degree and intend to continue on to complete an honours degree and are interested in applying for top companies in the UK, you will need to be ready to make applications 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, 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. Be proactive and consider contacting employers with a speculative application. A vacancy may occur in the near future, or a post be 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/links/jobhunt/
Graduate Prospects: the online national careers site for HE students in the UK
www.prospects.ac.uk/links/finalist
Prospects Finalist digital magazine for final year students
www.prospects.ac.uk/links/jobvacs
Graduate Prospects link for job vacancies for current graduates
www.prospects.ac.uk/links/coprofiles
Graduate Prospects link for employer profiles
www.prospects.ac.uk/prospectsfairs
www.prospects.ac.uk/links/abroad/
The official website for higher education in the Southwest - use the online job service for students and graduates
Hobsons (publisher) Graduate Employment and Training
GTI (publisher) graduate jobsite
Inside Careers (publisher) graduate jobsite for finance, business and management sectors
Reed Elsevier (publisher) Career advice and Graduate Zone. Go to 'Career advice' for 'Jobseeking plus'.
www.bournemouth.ac.uk/careers
Bournemouth University Graduate Employment Service
Department for Work and Pensions - click on 'Looking for a job?'
www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/eucitizens/
Home Office UK Border Agency - rules on EU citizens living and working in the UK
The Recruitment & Employment Confederation - click on 'I am a Jobseeker' and 'Go to Jobseeker section' to search for specialist or local employment agencies
www.kent.ac.uk/careers/sk/CJ.htm
University of Kent Careers Advisory Service 'The Creative Career Search' for advice on speculative applications
The WINDmills Virtual Career Coach - Graduate into Employment Unit, University of Liverpool. Go to 'Seven Tactics for Success' 'Tactic 3 - revealing the secret jobs market'.
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