Finding and Applying for Jobs

Applications, CVs, interviews and assessment centres

Careers Network's applying for jobs pages contain useful information and advice on CVs, covering letters, application forms, interviews, assessment centres and psychometric testing.

Other useful resources for postgraduate researchers include:

CVs for academic jobs
Covering letters for academic jobs
For support with non-academic CVs and applications, please see the 'Making applications and interviews' section of the PGR Careers Beyond Academia Canvas course
Vitae’s improving your employment opportunities pages
Prospects.ac.uk/careers advice
CVs
Interview advice

Job seeking resources for postgraduate researchers

PhD specific job vacancy listings for numerous academic and industrial positions, and general careers resources which you may find useful.

Academic PhD specific job search sites

AcademEmploy – An American academic employment site
Academic360 – A collection of online resources for the academic job hunter
FindAPostDoc – A postdoc jobsite
Jobs.ac.uk – The main academic job site for the UK
PostDoc – Contains American postdoc job listings
Research is cool – Postgraduate course, postdoc and research job vacancy site
Times Higher Education – Contains academic job listings

General PhD specific job search sites

ECM – high tech recruitment specialists
Guardian Jobs – Job listings from The Guardian
Nature Careers – Nature job listings
New Scientist – Job vacancy listings
Pharmi Web – Pharmaceutical jobs vacancies
Phd Job – PhD specific job vacancies
Specialist Publications from University of Strathclyde, Glasgow - listings of the most commonly used publications for jobs in different fields.
Science – Science job site

Careers Network resources

Vacancy database on Careers Connect - simply log in with your university username and password, and search for job opportunities.
For a list of sector-specific job boards, please see the 'sector-specific job hunting websites' section of the Finding jobs resources for PGT students page