Online Resources - Student Links
General Student Advice and Information Sites
Merlin Help Students - Information and Advice Portal
BBC Information - Higher Education Strategy
Students Union web sites in the South West
Accommodation, Home and Family Life
Disabled students and Health Issues
Looking for employment?
E4S lists summer and xmas jobs, part time jobs, and other student jobs. It also has a section on student deals, reviews, cheap travel, sports and gig news, etc.
Details of companies who offer placements to students, full-time, part-time, temporary, and contract jobs, "crazy jobs", and you can register for an email "Jobs Alert".
Looking for a Job, a Career, some work-experience?
Check out the excellent web sites at "Prospects", "Fish4jobs" and "Monster". They have jobs listings, interactive pages, career planning, graduate services, self-profiling, and lots more. They're big sites with many different careers services, advice, and national international jobs. The Fledglings site offers a search for placements and graduate jobs. Select from the image links in these logos.
Gradsouthwest is a job search web site with full-time, part-time, and vacation jobs for the south west of England. Guidance on producing a CV, links with newspapers, events in the region and online agencies as well as giving advice on tax, benefits, etc.
A search engine which searches through many job boards in the UK with a single search. For jobs relating to students or students advertising for employment, go to Job Hits Student pages. For graduate jobs and graduates seeking employment go to the Job Hits Graduate pages.
Career Jet Careerjet is an employment search engine.
Fast Tomato Career guidance for teenagers.
All the Top Bananas Job search engine that links to employers' sites to job hunt on multiple sites with a single search.
Careers A - Z Job search and career information.
Exec-Appointments.com Global Executive jobs.
Education-jobs Jobs in Education.
Graduate-recruitment Media, sales, and research, technology, etc.
Job Magic Various services to job search.
Job Track Free service to distribute your CV, apply for jobs, and register for jobs by email. Job vacancy search facility.
Job Directory allows you to register your details and search for jobs in your area. Also has links to other Jobs Websites.
Career Planning Health Check from the Prospects careers service
Not sure what career direction to go in?
At Hotcourses Compare Careers you click on the most important features you want from work and it compares them with the characteristics of different occupations, producing a list of the best matches.
Careers Gateway has a Virtual Careers Exhibition.
It might also be worth checking out the BBC Online sites Careers and Jobbank. The careers site might suggest a few ideas, and the jobbank site has personal descriptions of lots of different types of jobs by people who actually do those jobs.Or you could try Hobsons Global Careers and Education Service. This is a big site, world coverage, and includes careers guidance, careers search, job descriptions, and a lot more.
About to Graduate?
Graduate
UK A non-political follow-on to the NUS offering
help in all aspects of life after graduation.
www.newgraduate.com
International links and contacts for new graduates.
Graduate
Recruitment.co.uk UK online job finder.
S4L
Jobsearch/Assessment Advice on job search strategies, writing your
CV, tests used by employers, etc.
Education-jobs.co.uk Seeking jobs in teaching.
