Graduate vacancy websites
Current Bristol students and staff, and Bristol graduates in the first three years after graduation, can view vacancies from employers seeking to recruit from Bristol.
If you are not eligible to view our vacancies then there a number of externally provided graduate vacancy websites. Vacancy sources are often provided by the leading professional bodies and trade press in each industry and/or occupational area. For example, if you are interested in a career in advertising, then consult the Institute of Practitioners in Advertising and Campaign respectively. Other vacancy sources are listed below.
Collaborative university & government vacancy sources
GradSouthWest - graduate jobs and advice on jobhunting from all HE institutions in the South West
Graduate Jobs South - partnership between University Careers Services of Southampton Solent, Southampton and Winchester (covering the 'south central' area of the UK - Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Dorset, Wiltshire, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Surrey and Sussex)
Graduate Jobsearch Online developed by the University of Strathclyde Careers Service - an online guide of evaluated resources is aimed at helping students and graduates find vacancies and job opportunities in the UK and abroad. Students and graduates can search by country and search by job sector.
The Department of Business, Innovation and Skills' Graduate Talent Pool website for 2008 and 2009 graduates was launched on Wednesday 29 July 2009 enabling graduates to apply for internship vacancies.
Careers publishers
Targetjobs.co.uk - graduate jobs and careers intelligence from GTI Specialist Publishers
Immediate vacancies and jobs for when you graduate. Searchable database of
employers - an online Prospects Directory.
Inside Careers provides careers information in association with professional bodies with graduate and work experience vacancies from companies in city and finance, business and management, consultancy, engineering and IT.
Online vacancy sources (including recruitment agencies)
- Indeed.co.uk - aggregator of vacancies from employers and jobs boards
- The Graduate careers handbooks
- Careerjet.co.uk - a database of jobs advertised by companies, recruitment agencies and large specialist recruitment sites. Possible to search locally.
- Gradplus - search for graduate jobs by specific location and/or sector
- graduate-jobs.com - a pure vacancy service on behalf of SMEs (small & medium sized employers)
- Milkround.com - click on 'Industry Insights' for info on a range of careers.
- Monster graduate - includes lots of useful information as well as jobs
- Recruitment and Employment Confederation the recruitment agencies' professional body - use it to locate agencies by subject area and/or geographical region
- Agency Central - a useful site for finding agencies which specialise in particular sectors, eg multi-lingual, construction, engineering, IT, science, environment etc.
- University of London Careers Service Virtual Careers Library - a structured directory of careers and job-hunting sites primarily aimed at UK graduates
- Graduate Jobsearch Online - links to job sites by geographical area, subject and also newspapers.
Newspapers and other regional sources of information
- Fish4jobs regional newspapers' vacancies section rolled into one database. Search the lot or search by region.
- Regional vacancies - see our list of UK regions
- Paperboy - online newspaper directory; Search for online newspapers by country, title, state or city.
- The Big Project - UK newspapers online and worldwide newspapers in English.
- Electronic newspapers - a selection of British electronic newspapers, together with links to many other British and foreign newspapers, from University of Bristol Library Services.
- Financial Times
- The Guardian (main site) or go straight to Jobs Unlimited
- The Independent
- The Telegraph
- The Times
- Times Higher Education
- Evening Post Jobs Section - Bristol's main local newspaper
You'll find newspapers/journals specific to one occupational area listed in the relevant I want to work in... section eg New Scientist in Science
For links to newspapers etc worldwide, try our Work and study abroad section.