The Best Job Sites For Kicking Off Your Career
BEST FOR GRADUATES:
Give A Grad A Go
Your first big job can be hard to nail, especially if you’re fresh out of education or have limited experience. Give A Grad A Go is a site that caters specifically to people in the early stages of their careers, across a range of sectors – from tech and finance, to marketing, digital and creative. You can filter jobs by experience level, plus by company size and benefit, such as opportunities to work abroad, disability support, a clear diversity policy and flexible schedules. It also has a blog of handy career tips, as well as a salary calculator to help you work out your take home pay after national insurance and loan repayments.
Visit GiveAGradAGo.com
BEST FOR FASHION PROS
Business Of Fashion
Fashion is one of the hardest industries to break into, and often a lot of the jobs aren’t advertised through traditional sites. Business of Fashion is a great site that can help you stay up to date on the goings-on within the industry, plus it has the inside scoop on new job opportunities. From garment production and design to merchandising, every role in the fashion sector is covered.
Visit BusinessOfFashion.com
BEST FOR: ENTRY-LEVEL FASHION JOBS
Fashion Workie
Fashion Workie is another solid site for those who want to work in fashion. Best of all, this site focuses on job openings at the ground level. From internships and placements to studio and freelance work, Fashion Workie has options for all the areas of the industry.
Visit FashionWorkie.com
Best For: A Comprehensive Search
Guardian Jobs
You may know the Guardian as a newspaper, but its job board offers a comprehensive overview of what is on the market at the moment. From part-time positions to graduate jobs, it has options for across the private and public sectors. You can make an account to receive job alerts to your inbox, and easily upload your CV to the site to let employers match you to their jobs as soon as they become available.
Visit TheGuardian.com
Best For: Aspiring Music Professionals
Music Careers
Music is a big business, and you don’t have to be a pop star to climb up the industry. Music Careers has lots of opportunities on its site to help you progress, from PR roles to production work and record label positions. As well as the UK, jobs are also posted for music hotspots such as Los Angeles, London, Nashville, New York and Amsterdam; with plenty of remote, full-time, part-time, freelance positions and internships up for grabs.
Visit MusicCareers.co
Best For Creative Jobs:
The Dots
The Dots is like LinkedIn’s cooler little sister: the site has the same professional networking set up, but with a creative edge. From Bloomberg, Tate and the National Theatre to Adidas and LVMH , all the biggest names in the creative industry advertise their opportunities here. You have to create an account to see the full listings, but it’s free to do so and you can use your page as a virtual portfolio.
Visit The-Dots.com
Best For Tech Jobs:
Haystack
Start-ups are a great way to get on-the-ground experience at cool, growing businesses. They are often fast-paced and offer lots of learning opportunities for those who are just starting out. On this jobs site, expect positions in key tech hubs – New York, San Francisco and LA – alongside remote opportunities. With ties to numerous venture-backed tech start-ups, it meticulously curates its job board to highlight top-quality roles from leading companies – covering a wide spectrum of tech fields such as engineering, design and data science.
Visit Underdog.io
Best For Start-Ups:
Underdog
Even job sites are making use of AI these days. So, if you want to double-down your efforts to find the perfect job, Adzuna uses a data-driven approach to help you find the right fit. Its algorithms are adept at honing your search, and impressively, if the job advertisements don’t include a salary, it uses AI to predict it within a 10% range so you can get an informed idea. The advanced search option enables users to include or exclude specific words, along with a variety of other settings. Plus, they can match you with a great selection of remote-working and international jobs.
Visit Adzuna.co.uk
Best For Finance:
eFinancialCareers
As its name suggests, eFinancialCareers focuses on the finance job market. Regularly featuring opportunities from industry giants like BNY Mellon and Deutsche Bank, it provides clear salary guidance and job specs. The site also offers services such as current news, expert advice and career events, where you can meet potential employers face to face.
Visit EFinancialCareers.co.uk
Best For Budding Journalists & PR Professionals:
Cision
Want to live out your Carrie or Samantha dreams? Cision Jobs is your go-to destination for opportunities in public relations and journalism across the UK and beyond. It has a super user-friendly interface, and you can filter jobs by sectors such as B2B, business, consumer publication, and digital. Journo Resources is another site we rate – the team makes it its mission to only post job ads where the salary band is stated.
Visit CisionJobs.co.uk
Best For Hospitality:
Limber
Whether you are trained in silver service or just want some bar work, Limber in the hospitality industry. It's a go-to for businesses in need of additional staff for singular events like sports games and festivals. Even better, there is a mobile app to make it even easier to pick up a few shifts over the weekend. Setting up a Limber profile is straightforward: you can easily apply for roles, leaving Limber to manage all payroll and administrative duties.
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