Please find below the most commonly asked questions that UUK receives relating to employment and work experience/placements together with their answers.
How can I find work experience or student placement opportunities?
Many universities offer a job shop which is a dedicated job centre for students and graduates that offers or advertises a range of job opportunities for students and graduates to help develop the skills and competencies that today’s employers are looking for. The university Careers Advisory Service will also be a useful source of information and advice.
Prospects Work Experience is the official magazine of the NCWE (National Council for Work Experience) which targets pre-final year students with work placement vacancies. All types of work experience are featured, including work experience placements, vacation work, work-based projects or volunteering opportunities.
This is published annually in October in conjunction with the NCWE (National Council for Work Experience) and over 50,000 copies are distributed nationwide via university careers services, work experience fairs, job shops and academic departments. Adverts are also posted on the Prospects Work Experience Community website.
Graduate Talent Pool is a website that matches graduates with internship opportunities. On this site you can search and apply for internship vacancies posted by employers.
There are a number of commercial websites advertising vacancies. A small selection is listed below.
Just Jobs 4 Students is a jobs portal for UK students advertising hundreds of part-time, temporary, seasonal and gap year employment and work opportunities for students.
Similarly,
Summer Jobs 4 Students website provides a database of mainly summer/seasonal jobs for college and university students in the UK.
Employment4students advertises student jobs, part time jobs, temporary jobs, internships and graduate jobs.
Please note that nationals from the European Union can usually work without restrictions though will need to bear in mind the time needed to study and any prescriptions the university places on the maximum amount of time you can spend in paid employment. International students should consult the regulations within their Visa to determine if they are permitted to work and if so, for how many hours per week.
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Where are graduate jobs advertised?
There are number of places where graduate jobs are advertised, for example, the university careers service will advertise vacancies for graduate positions. In addition, the national and local press and professional magazines will also advertise jobs and there are many websites dedicated to advertising (graduate) jobs such as:
Graduate Prospects
http://www.prospects.ac.uk
Graduate Jobs -
http://www.graduate-jobs.com/
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How can I advertise a graduate job, work experience or student placement opportunity?
You can advertise your job vacancies via Prospects Net, the UK’s official graduate careers website, which gives you access to job-seeking students and graduates.
You can use the
Graduate Talent Pool website for employers to advertise your internship opportunities.
You could make use of the
UCAS website's course search facility and input your desired subjects (e.g., computing) in the subject search box. This will then identify relevant courses with their respective universities. You could then contact these universities and target the appropriate departments directly.
Alternatively, you may like to contact the relevant
Higher Education Academy's Subject Centre as they have established a network of Departmental Contacts across the UK higher education community (whereby an individual volunteers or is nominated by his/her department as the Departmental Contact) and they may be able to pass on your opportunity to these contacts who could then further disseminate information on the opportunity within their institutions/departments.
The National Council for Work Experience's (NCWE),
Find Me A Student! is a central resource for businesses to find local information and contact details for university placement services, job shops and independent placement organisations with student initiatives.
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I want to work in a university – where are these jobs advertised?
Universities will advertise their vacancies on their websites. The Times Higher Education and The Guardian advertise jobs in the higher education and university sector.
www.jobs.ac.uk is a website dedicated to advertising vacancies in universities, further education colleges, research institutions, commercial & public sector bodies, schools & charities.
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We hope you have found these questions and answers useful. Please note that if you do not find the answer to your question within this section or the other FAQs please contact us using our enquiry form.