Guides on job hunting
Use these guides to plan and strengthen your job search. You’ll find practical tips on where to start, how to find opportunities, build networks, and navigate the transition from study to work.
Guides to finding job opportunities
Career Discovery provides a range of resources to help you with finding job opportunities (with more bespoke resources on working outside the UK also available).
Our UCL guides include top tips and are a great starting point:
Where to start
- 10 ways to find a job
- Graduate recruitment - how to find the big names
- What’s next after graduation
- Internships and work experience
- Part-time work while studying
- International students - job hunting
Expanding your job search
- Alternatives to graduate schemes
- Unadvertised jobs and work experience
- Networking
- Information interviewing
- LinkedIn and social media
- Simulated work experience
Employment rights
- What are my employment rights?
- Internship agreements / Convention de Stage
- Staying safe from scams during your job search
Further information
- Inclusive job boards
- Summer internships - what to do if you haven’t secured one
- Startups
- China - job hunting resources
- Choosing between multiple job offers
- Career change: navigating your way
- The transition from university to the workplace
- VMock - free online LinkedIn profile review tool
Career Discovery also includes a broad range of informative articles on job hunting from targetjobs alongside those provided by the UCL Careers team. These will include tips on starting your job hunt, advice for international students, job hunting with a disability, coping with setbacks, and much more.
You can also use Career Discovery to find our full list of ‘Sector Insight’ articles which provide listings of employer directories and key job sites for a range of different industry sectors, sample graduate schemes / internships, opportunities for under-represented groups and specialist recruitment agencies. (Or simply use the search function to find articles on your own jobs / sectors of interest).
Alternatively, search for terms like networking to explore information about the unadvertised job market, using speculative job-hunting techniques, and building professional networks to source opportunities.
