Where to begin your job search?
Where are the best places to begin your job search? Should you be looking in the newspaper, bookshops or Internet? Or is it best to use all three sources? Where do you begin? It is so easy to become overwhelmed with the amount of information, especially when you start surfing the net. We are bombarded by so many web pages and sites offering careers information and advice.
Maybe you’re not even certain you want to change your job or career direction, but you are just feeling slightly dissatisfied and fed-up in your current role or company.
So many people stay in jobs they hate. In future blogs I will explore some of the reasons why people fail to stay in jobs that make the unhappy and work which leaves them dissatisfied.
All comments, opinions and experiences are most welcome, in fact its what I’m looking forward to, its one of the main reasons I decided to start writing my Career Solutions blog. So get posting your comments!
I wanted my first entry to be extremely practical .I have put together a comprehensive list of the most useful job search websites.
Included in my list is a run down of the UK broadsheets and the days when they advertise certain jobs.
Useful Websites to Help you with your Job Search
www.jobcentreplus.gov.uk – or visit your local Jobcentre Plus
www.fish4jobs.co.uk – Thousand of jobs from local newspapers
www.jobsgopublic.com – Public sector and non-for-profit jobs
www.monster.co.uk – Jobs, CV advice, employer profiles
www.yorkshirejobstoday.co.uk – Regional newspapers / job adverts
www.gisajob.com – Jobs from agencies and employers
www.workthing.com - Vacancies, advice and information
www.reed.co.uk – Range of vacancies and job search resources
www.totaljobs.com – Vacancies from a range of sectors, a company directory and more
Newspapers job Sections
The Guardian: Advertises creative, media, marketing and general jobs on Monday; Education, academic and research Tuesdays; Health, public services, housing, environmental and voluntary sector on Wednesdays; Computing, science, technology, engineering and finance on Thursdays; vacancies for graduate and second jobbers in the Work supplement on Saturdays.
The Independent advertises media on Monday; Education and general vacancies on Sundays.
The Times advertises public sector and legal on Tuesdays; Secretarial on Wednesdays; and general vacancies on Thursdays
The Financial Times advertises accountancy, finance, insurance, sales and marketing on Thursdays.
The Daily Telegraph advertises general vacancies on Thursdays.
