Online Jobsearching Part One: Where to look

When looking for a job, as with looking for anything, it is always a good idea to search in a range of places. Some vacancies may only be advertised in one or two locations so it is important to keep your net wide.

Good starting places are the general graduate job websites like Get Hobsons
Prospects and Milkround. These are designed specifically for the graduate job seeker so the types of jobs are likely to be of an appropriate level. Also excellent are the vacancy pages at the Guardian.

CDEC’s own jobs database is also effective. Because our employment team select which jobs to add, the focus is on career areas that Sussex Graduates are interested in and qualified to do. Plus we look in a variety of locations for the juciest jobs.

But if the job you are looking for is more unusual, specialized or rare you’ll want to explore sector specific websites. CDEC’s Careers Information pages link to such sites. Some of the best are www.gradcracker.com/ for Engineering vacancies, www.lgjobs.com/ for local government, and www.environmentjob.co.uk/ for environment.
It is also worth thinking creatively. If you are interested in working in the press office for a charity, a suitable job could appear on the charity’s own website, a vacancy website for charities and not-for-profit, or a site for PR and media vacancies.

Part two of Online Jobsearching will cover how to use these sites effectively, and part three will deal with making online applications.