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best websites to find jobs in the UK

apart from gumtee and indeed. any others to recommend?
Depends what kind of work you’re looking for. Reed is good for contractual work like office temps. LinkedIn for skilled professionals
Original post by HucktheForde
apart from gumtee and indeed. any others to recommend?


You are best off narrowing it down. The more specialist or local the website, the lower the competition. The best approach is to spend an evening or two searching for and then bookmarking a set of websites that fit with the sector/location you want to work in. Indeed etc might pick up some opportunities, but there will be hundreds of other people seeing the same advert. If you search yourself out a set of company websites, sector specific websites, geographic websites etc you get a reduce number of people looking and therefore applying.
Original post by HucktheForde
apart from gumtee and indeed. any others to recommend?

Monster Jobs and Total Jobs are quite good for general job seeking if you’re not looking for a specialist role.
Hiya! :smile:

For the past few years, I have been successfully using LinkedIn, Unitemps and Facebook Groups (e.g, Jobs in Leicester).

These are three very distinct sources, but each of them offers more or less professional and very diverse job vacancies.

I hope it was helpful :wink: Feel free to reach out if you have any questions. You can also chat with me and other students through The Ambassador Platform.

Wish you all the best!

Take care,

Julia :h:
Psychology student
De Montfort University
https://www.charityjob.co.uk/
https://www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk

Both of these are interesting to look at, they have listings you wouldn't find on most job websites.

https://www.careerswithdisabilities.com/jobs/
https://jobs4disability.com/jobs/
https://www.evenbreak.co.uk/

These are job sites that focus on supporting people with disabilities, but many of the roles are not disabled-specific and would apply to most people.

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