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Where are the jobs? How to find vacancies

Where are the jobs? How to find vacancies. Tim Reed T.M.Reed@kent.ac.uk Careers Advisory Service www.kent.ac.uk/careers/. Introduction. Where to look for jobs/internships What else you can do?. Where to look. Vacancy publications www.kent.ac.uk/careers/jobs/index.htm

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Where are the jobs? How to find vacancies

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  1. Where are the jobs? How to find vacancies Tim ReedT.M.Reed@kent.ac.uk Careers Advisory Service www.kent.ac.uk/careers/

  2. Introduction • Where to look for jobs/internships • What else you can do?

  3. Where to look • Vacancy publications www.kent.ac.uk/careers/jobs/index.htm • Directories www.prospects.ac.uk • Employer brochures – eg. dstl @www.dstl.gov.uk/careers/gradrec.php • Specialist publications www.nature.com/naturejobs/science/ www.psychapp.co.uk/ • Careers Fairs

  4. CAREERS FAIRS - 2010 www.prospects.ac.uk/links/careerfairs Law Fair University of York 4/11/2010 University of Brighton Careers Fair Brighton 4/11/2010 Graduate Recruitment Fair Hull 4/11/2010 Careers and Recruitment Fair Canterbury 4/11/2010 Business and Management Fair LSE 4/11/2010 Teesside University Careers Fair Middlesbrough 5/11/2010 Brunel Autumn Careers Fair Uxbridge 8/11/2010 Careers and Recruitment Event University of Hertfordshire 9/11/2010 Plymouth Business School Placements & Graduate Recruitment Fair Plymouth 10/11/2010 Graduate Recruitment & Placement Fair Portsmouth Guildhall 10/11/2010 Birmingham City University 'Discover Potential: Improve Prospects' Fair Birmingham 11/11/2010 UCL Law Fair London 15-16/11/2010 GO 10 - UCLan Graduate Opportunities Fair 2010 Preston 16-18/11/2010 Meet Your Future10 Tremough Campus , Penryn , Cornwall 17/11/2010 University of Bristol Law Fair Bristol 17-18/11/2010 Science, Technology & Engineering Placements & Graduate Recruitment Fair Plymouth 24/11/2010 Newcastle Engineering Fair Newcastle Upon Tyne 29/11/2010 Volunteering Fair Leicester, Main Campus 30/11/2010 The London Diversity Graduate Career & Training Fair 2010 East London 2-3/12/2010 Accounting & Finance Fair Leicester 8/12/2010 Careers and Recruitment Fair - Canterbury 4/11/2010

  5. Where to look • Vacancy publications • Directories • Employer brochures • Specialist publications • Careers Fairs • Job Centres & LSCs • Online sources

  6. Online sources • Institute of Practitioners in Advertising www.ipa.co.uk/ • Chartered Institute of Marketing www.cim.co.uk • Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development www.cipd.co.uk/ • Guardian vacancies www.jobs.guardian.co.uk/

  7. GRADUATE SALARIES 2010 • Aldi £40,000 - £60,000 (after 3yrs) + fully expensed Audi A4 • Linklaters £37,400 • ExxonMobil £33,000+ • Royal Navy £29,006 + £12,000 joining bonus • Mars £29,000 + • Lloyd’s £28,000 - £31,000 • Civil Service up to £27,000 • Unilever £26,500 • Reckitt Benckiser £26,000 - £28,000 • Police (HPDS) £24,675 after initial training • Marks & Spencer £24,000+ • Sainsbury’s £23,000 - £25,000 • MI5 £23,500 + benefits - varies by function! • Asda £23,000 • AWE (Atomic Weapons Establishment) from £21,500 + final salary pension • Arcadia £17,500 - £23,000 + 25% store discount

  8. Excellent Websiteswww.kent.ac.uk/careers/sitesmen.htm • www.prospects.ac.uk • www.get.hobsons.co.uk/ • www.kent.ac.uk/careers/ • www.kentgrads.org.uk/ • www.kent.ac.uk/careers/PDWPgrad.htm

  9. Where to look • Vacancy publications • Directories • Employer brochures • Specialist publications • Careers Fairs • Job Centres & LSCs • Internet • Newspapers

  10. Job ads in the presswww.kent.ac.uk/careers/sitespub.htm • Actuaries - Money Management, Observer, Times • Arts Administration - The Stage, Arts Management Weekly, Guardian (Mon & Sat) • Times Higher Educational Supplement www.thes.co.uk   good source of jobs in universities. • Academic Jobs EU www.academicjobseu.com Academic and related vacancies for research institutes in the EU. • aut4jobswww.aut4jobs.com Higher education vacancies • Association of Commonwealth Universities www.acu.ac.uk/adverts/jobs international university jobs • Eduserve Vacancies www.vacancies.ac.uk on-line information services for clients in education, government, health and other sectors. • The National Postgraduate Committee www.npc.org.uk - the representative body for Postgrads in UK links to job search resources • New Scientist www.newscientistjobs.com

  11. Where to look • Vacancy publications • Directories • Employer brochures • Specialist publications • Careers Fairs • Job Centres & LSCs • Internet • Newspapers • Recruitment Agencies

  12. Recruitment Agencieswww.kent.ac.uk/careers/recruit.htm • FASHION - George Ellis Recruitment • MUSIC - Handle Recruitment • ACCOUNTANCY - Hays Accountancy Personnel • SECRETARIAL - Nice People Employment Bureau • STOCKBROKING - Citifocus Ltd

  13. What else can you do?www.kent.ac.uk/careers/sk/CJ.htm • ask your friends • ask your relatives • ask your “network” • ask a careers adviser

  14. Next Steps • Decide on the job you want • Research employers • Apply early • Discuss your ideas if you are uncertain • Change your job-hunting methods if they are not working

  15. Careers Advisory Service Website http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/

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