Information and resources when searching for job vacancies and volunteering opportunities
- EmployAbility for student jobs and jobs on campus
- UEA Volunteers
- Graduate level full-time vacancies
- GradsEast
- Graduate Jobsearch Online
- UEA Jobs via HR
Graduate Vacancy Lists
Around 40% of graduate vacancies are open to graduates of any subject.
- Prospects advertises graduate level jobs including immediate vacancies.
- Hobsons
- Inside Careers
- Milkround Online Ltd 1,000's of internships, graduate schemes, jobs plus events, advice
- Best Companies
- Target Jobs including Independent reviews on top graduate employers
- The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers
- Total Professions whether you are a student, career switcher or returning to work after a career break, TotalProfessions.com offers careers advice and inspiration for becoming a professional.
National Press
Vacancy advertisements in the national press tend to be from larger organisations looking nationally and/or internationally for a number of recruits. Publications generally concentrate on specific sectors on different days but you may also be able to search by type of job on the web page. These are listings, newspapers and journals aimed at a very broad market. Newspapers are major sources of vacancy information and worth checking regularly.
Search specialist web pages for careers in finance, science, higher education and the public sector.
Local Press
The Media UK online directory sources local newspapers with on-line jobs pages. Look at our local pages for information on employers and jobs in Norfolk.
Other Sources
- National and local vacancies are sometimes notified direct to university career services and advertised on their web pages
- Check web pages of organisations which interest you as well as general job sites
- Recruitment Fairs usually take place locally and regionally in the summer and autumn. Look out for advertisements on our site and on Prospects.
- A number of employers such as major chartered accountancy firms visit universities to recruit and give presentations
- Employment agencies and recruitment consultancies do not give careers advice but may prove a source of temporary jobs or specialist routes in to some types of work
- Visit job centres for local and temporary work.
Specialist Sources of Job Vacancies
The job profiles on the Prospects website will tell you which specialist sources advertise relevant vacancies and provide internet links.
If you prefer to look at paper copies of specialist magazines and are able to get there, try UEA Library and Careers Centre, the Forum and City College. In some cases you may need to take out a subscription or join a professional association.
- Sources for environmental vacancies
- Campaign (marketing and advertising)
- Opportunities (local government)
- Broadcast (TV)
- BBC World of Careers
- ELT (TEFL jobs)
- New Scientist online vacancies
- Nextwave lists jobs, information on grants for research, useful chatty articles etc... If your access to the site is not via the UEA campus network, you will not be given access to the 'subscription only' sections of the Next Wave site which have been sponsored for all universities by Merck Sharp & Dohme
- Computer Weekly has a large selection of IT vacancies in Britain
- Young Scientist online vacancies
- The Grapevine carries details of job and training opportunities of all sectors of social science research. Researchers will be able to register their research interests to receive e-mail updates directly and make their CVs available online
- Academic appointments in British Commonwealth universities are listed on the ACU website.
- jobs and postgraduate research positions within the UK academic sector
- Library Association 'Library & Information Appointments' is the official recruitment publication of The Library Association. Published fortnightly it carries job advertisements from all library sectors throughout the country and has a circulation of 23,500
- Knowledge Transfer Partnerships offer the opportunity for paid work on a challenging project for a business with support from an academic institution and the possibility of study for a higher degree
Overseas Jobs
There are lots of links worth following from our working abroad page.


