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The listings below provide ideas on recruitment sites which may support your job search.  

In addition, it may be helpful to use one of the many job search engines - these essentially trawl through multiple sites cross the web and pull together a list of advertised vacancies matching your criteria.  Amongst the best known are Indeed, Total Jobs and Monster.  

Targetjobs
Prospects        
The Careers Group (University of London)   
Milkround   
Graduate Links
Graduate Jobs 
Gradcracker  (STEM areas, especially useful for engineering and IT)
Inside Careers  
Reed Graduates  
Fish4 jobs 
The Big Choice 
Advance
Aspire (focus on digital, media and marketing)
Student Ladder 
Glassdoor
Inspiringinterns   
Enternships 
Step  
MBA Match  
Iagora (vacancies in the UK and overseas)
Graduate Recruitment Bureau
Debut offers a careers app which can be downloaded from their website.  
Adzuna
Magnet.me

Sites supporting specific groups:

Vercida  specifically advertising diverse and inclusive career opportunities
Seo-London opportunities mainly in finance, law and IT for ethnic minority students
EmployAbility for students with disabilities
Great with Disability information and a vacancy source for those with a disability

Regional sites:

Graduate Yorkshire  
Graduateadvantage (West Midlands)

Internships/placements only:

Ratemyplacement   
Placement-uk
Fledglings  
Topinternships 
Uniplacement 
Get Work Experience
Windsor Fellowship (offer a number of internship programmes for ethnic minority students)
Change 100 (offer a summer internship programme for students and recent graduates with a disability)
Creative Access (media based internships for ethnic minority students)
AnyIntern
Graduate Talent Pool  (Home, EU and EEA graduates only)
Internship programs (USA)
Internweb (mainly USA)  
Europe-internship 
Europlacement 

PR Week
Major Players
Mad Jobs 
Hays Marketing 
Media Week Jobs 
Only Marketing Jobs 
JFL Search & Selection 
Pathfinders Media Recruitment 
Reilly People 
Spotlight Recruitment
Blue Skies 
Live Recruitment 
Aspire
Creative Pool
Campaign Jobs
The Dots - a selection of internship and job roles in the creative sector including marketing, digital media and graphic design

In addition to recruitment sites, it is also worthwhile to refer to the jobs pages of related publications, including:

Exchange
The Drum

The Institute of Practitioners in Advertising also supports the Admissions pages which are designed for graduates interested in a career in advertising – there is general information plus a jobs board.

Arts, media and culture jobs
Arts jobs Online
Arts Job Finder
Adrem   (architecture and design)
Aquent  (marketing, social media, digital, design sectors)
ArtsHub
Creative Recruitment
Live Recruitment

Mediauk.com
Artsculturemediajobs
Creativerecruitment
Broadcastgraduate
Grapevinejobs.co.uk 
Judy Fisher 
Mandy  (TV and film)
Film & TV Pro  (most services for members only, but membership currently free for 30 days)
Media Week Jobs 
Pathfinders Media Recruitment
The Unit List 
Creative Access (provide internships for ethnic minority students)
Bubble Jobs
Function Central  and Entertainers Worldwide (hire live music acts and DJs for example for a variety of events)
Formula Won Media Ltd 
Harrison Pursey
Impact Creative
Media Contacts
Creative Choices
Spotlight Recruitment   
Aspire 
Major Players 
Dragonfly Recruitment
The Dots - a selection of internship and job roles across the creative sector including digital media
Media Beans
Go Think Big

Nutrition Society 
NHS Jobs 
Foodman Jobs 
DRNewitt 
Focus Management Consultants 
Your Food Job 
New Scientist 
b3

In addition the Food Standards Agency website is worth referring to as vacancies are advertised from time to time 

Sanctuary Personnel    
ttm Healthcare
Capita Social Care
Eden Brown                                 
Hays
Community Care
Great Social Care.co.uk
Social Work and Care Jobs
Rig Social Care Recruit
Personnel Care Bank
Careworx
4SocialWork
Charity Job
Randstad Care 
EM Recruitment (social work)
Supply Care Solutions (social work)
British Social Work Jobs 
Jobs4medical  
British Association of Social Workers jobs board 
Health Jobs UK (administrative and healthcare assistant roles) 
BMI Healthcare (administrative and healthcare assistant roles) 
British Care Jobs 

In addition, the links below may be of interest:
NHS Jobs
Skills for Care run a graduate programme for those interested in adult social care
Compass Jobs Fair is an annual social work fair which takes place in London, typically in November each year
Frontline offers a programme providing an alternative route for social work training 

Institute of Biomedical Science jobs page 
NHS job site 
chemistryworldjobs  jobs page of the Royal Society of Chemistry
British Health Science Jobs
SRG 
Hays Life Science 
New Scientist jobs page
Reed Scientific  
Pf Jobs  (commercial roles in the pharmaceutical sector eg medical sales) 
Access-Sciencejobs  
CK Science 
Jobs in Science 
Pharmiweb  
Pmlive  Sales, marketing & communication jobs in the pharmaceutical industry
Next Pharma Job 
Langton Howarth  
Non-Stop Pharma  
Penny Warren (sales and marketing within the life sciences sector) 
Stemgraduates 
The Biochemical Society
Guided Solutions recruit life science graduates mainly for sales/marketing roles for the medical devices industry
Search
Network Scientific Recruitment

In addition, for placement opportunities for both undergraduates and recent graduates, vacancies are advertised from time on time on the Cogent website.   Those interested in areas relating to microbiology may also want to consider vacancies in the food industry – see the section on “Food and Nutrition”. 

Angela Mortimer Third Sector
Civil Society Jobs
CharityJOB
Flow Caritas
Goodmoves
Harris Hill
Kage Partnership
nfp recruitment
ProspectUs
Third Sector Jobs
TPP Not for Profit
Voluntary Sector Jobs
Charity Sector Jobs
Eden Brown
Bond  (international development)
Elevator  (social enterprises, charities)

In addition, you may be interested in Charity Works, a nine month programme for graduates interested in a career in this sector.

The following sites provide details of vacancies in the public sector.

Jobs go Public 
Public Sector Careers 
Public Sector Vacancies 
Public Sector Jobs 
LG Jobs 
Working for an MP 

In addition, refer to websites of individual local authorities as well as to the NHS job site and the Civil Service job search page.

Training programmes aimed specifically at graduates are offered in:

Central Government - The Civil Service Fast Stream
The NHS -  Graduate Management Training Scheme 
Local Government - National Graduate Development Programme 

For those interested in working abroad, the country profiles on the Prospects website and the "Working Abroad" section of the Target Jobs site provide a range of helpful resources including job sites and Visa information.

The University of the West of England has developed web pages for international students interested in returning to their home countries in:

Africa
Bangladesh
Canada
China 
India 
Malaysia
South East Asia

For those interested in working in Africa, another site worth referring to is Careers in Africa.

 

 

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