Guides on job hunting

Online Careers Library

Career Discovery provides a range of resources to help you with finding job opportunities.

Our UCL guides include top tips and are a great starting point:

• 10 ways to find a job
• Staying safe from scams during your job search
• Internships and work experience
• Alternatives to graduate schemes
• Part-time work while studying
• Unadvertised jobs and work experience
• What are my employment rights?
• Inclusive job boards
• Information interviewing
• Networking
• LinkedIn and social media
• Convention de Stage (a guide for on internship agreements for those job hunting overseas)
• Choosing between multiple job offers

Career Discovery also includes a broad range of informative articles from TARGETjobs. Search for job hunting to discover tips on starting your job hunt, advice for international students, job hunting with a disability, coping with setbacks, and much more.

Alternatively, search for networking to explore information about the unadvertised job market, using speculative job-hunting techniques, and building professional networks to source opportunities.

For sector specific resources, search for UCL to view our range of sector articles with details of employer directories, key job sites, sample graduate schemes, internships and volunteering, opportunities for under-represented groups, and specialist recruitment agencies.