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Employment
Employers, Agencies & Placement Services 
AA Appointments - Recruitment consultants active in the UK, Ireland and Australia.
Aarca Sales Recruitment - Sales jobs in the Midlands. Based in Birmingham, Aarca offer a comprehensive sales recruitment service.
Accent Courses Ltd - Employ activity assistants for residential summer schools at University campus sites for foreign students. 
Acer Recruitment - Cater to those looking for work in the north west of England. Visa information for South Africans, Aussies and Canadians is provided.
Alliance Abroad - Provide many and varied opportunities for arranging shorter term jobs, internships, and teaching positions for all nationalities in several countries.
Alton Towers - UK theme park offers over 1,000 seasonal job opportunities between the end of March and the end of October. Formal qualifications are far less important than excellent interpersonal skills. 
Anders Plus Ltd - An independant employment agency suppyling landscape and gardening staff to the major nurseries in London. They have been employing lots of travelling holiday makers, providing short term and full employment.
A-One Au-Pairs & Nannies - Au pair, nanny and mothers help placements to the UK and overseas, including the USA.
The Arbutus Hotel - Historic townhouse hotel located in the heart of Killarney with award winning restaurant and bar.
AstraZeneca - Require healthy, non-smoking males aged 18 to 45 to help test new medicines. Frequent visits and overnight stays at a comfortable unit in Nottingham are required. You will be fully reimbursed for your time and inconvenience - works out at approximately £80 to £100 per 24 hour stay.
At Bright Eyes Nanny Agency - Established in 1987, this agency has written to us that they are a professional, caring and friendly agency, where 90% of their business is generated by recommendation. Places au pairs, nannies and nursery staff in Surrey and surrounding area.
At Playtime Nanny Agency - Established in 1990 these childcare recruitment specliasts cover Surrey and the surrounding area.
Au Pairs and Horsejobs - Place au pairs and people that want to work with horses in Ireland.
Au Pair Search Ltd - A UK based au pair agency which brings together UK host families and au pairs from overseas.
Axcis Education Recruitment - Includes a jobs board of teaching vacancies available in the UK.
Battery House B&B - Small family run bed and breakfast in Scotland. Occasionally need domestic staff over the summer with reasonable English to help with cleaning and ironing in exchange for free accommodation and food.
British Airways
Camp Beaumont - UK summer camp.
Camphill Rudolf Steiner School - An independent voluntary day and residential school near Aberdeen.
Cathedral Camps - Help to clean and restore historic cathedrals and churches.
Centre for Alternative Technology - Working for a sustainable future with help from volunteers.
Chandler & Dunn Ltd - Farming and Fruit Growing company with two farms in east Kent.
Charterhouse Clinical Research Unit - An independent clinical research company based at the Stamfort Hospital in west London. They seek healthy men and women aged 18 to 65 for trials that involve a residential stay. 
Chessington World of Adventures - Theme park.
The Coaltion - An organisation that promotes sustainability and environmental issues through a one day music festival in Guildford, Surrey; and other live music events. Jobs available for the music festival include site crew, stewards and catering crew. Wages aren't paid but benefits range from free entry to the after party to meals, drinks and expenses.
The Crinan Hotel  - 50 yards from the sea in Scotland's yachting centre. Sometimes require staff for the season in all departments.
Crusaders - Christian youth organisation. Holiday helpers required
Cultural Cube - A variety of programmes including assisting young people from the commonwealth to secure temporary employment in the UK as part of their participation in the Working Holiday Maker scheme.
DialogueDirect Ltd - Fundraising agency, raising funds and awareness on behalf of worthy environmental and social issues.
Encore Personnel - Recruitment agency providing staffing solutions in Leicester, Telford, Coventry, Northampton and across the Midlands.
Endeavour Training - Qualified instructors sometimes needed at activity centres in the UK. Pursuits include kayaking, open canoeing, imporvised rafting, rock climbing, abseiling, hill walking and mountaineering, gorge scrambling, caving and mountain biking.
Euro Practice - Internships, language courses, work and study programmes and au pair positions for European students. Offices in France, England, Germany and Spain. 
Eurotemp Recruitment - For doctors, nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, pharmacists, radiographers, audiologists, dieticians, speech therapists.
Eurotemp Teacher Recruitment - Recruit professional teachers with a high level of commitment. Teaching jobs are located all over the UK but are mostly in England. The busiest times for recruitment are in December (for a January start) and June/July for a September start. The academic year in the UK runs from September to July and candidates for UK teaching jobs must have a university degree, a recognised teaching qualification either in the Uk or in their home country and an excellent level of English. Teaching contracts are for 1 to 2 years full time and are usually tax free.
Farlow and Warren - IT, construction and finance jobs. F&W will employ non-UK nationals as long as passports and visas are in order.
Farmhands - Slovak employment agency. Provides seasonal student pickers for UK farmers.
Fitzwilliam International - Belfast hotel, conference centre, restaurant and bar with a jobs section.
Fleadh - Irish music festival.
France Au Pair / Eurojob - Mostly finds work in the UK and Ireland for French au pairs. Also hotel jobs.
French Au Pairs - Learn a new language, meet new friends, enjoy a new culture, and have fun. French Au Pairs offer short and long term au pair placements in the UK.
Fruitful Ltd - Student/backpacker jobs on farms in the UK and, occasionally, Europe.
Gatecrasher - Music festival.
Glastonbury - The big music festival in Somerset.
Homelands - Music festival.
Hotel Connections - Work in hotels in the UK, long term or short term, live in or live out. Applicants must speak English and be eligible to work in UK.
Isle of Wight Festival - Music festival.
JobTrack - Find jobs in sales, IT and engineering.
Johnson's Au Pair - Placement of au pairs in UK and Europe.
Kings Sports Camps - UK multi activity sports camps. Sport and swimming coaching staff required for centres in the UK and Europe. 
Let's Go UK - Au-pair and student agency, organising studying in London, accommodation for students, and au pair placements.
Little Darlings Nanny Agency - Nanny agency referring nannies, maternity nurses and Polish au pairs. Full job listings for London and southern UK on their jobs board.
Live-in Jobs for Backpackers in the UK - Recruit backpackers with UK working holiday visas. Lots of useful links too.
London Nurses Agency
Madame Tussauds - Work at the world famous wax museum.
Manpower - UK branch of the worldwide employment agency.
Manpower - Irish branch of the worldwide employment agency.
Masterlock Recruitment - Agency seeks both teachers and nursery nurses.
Medic Search & Selection Ltd - A medical recruitment agency recruiting registered doctors and nurses of all grades and specialised to work in hospitals across the UK.
Miss Moneypenny's - Club residency in the UK and Ibiza. Often looking for promotional staff.
Nightingale Nursing Bureau - Nightingale Nursing Bureau assists registered nurses, enrolled nurses and experienced care assistants with casual or permanent nursing placements in Australia and London.
NorthWest One Recruitment - Recruitment agency for the northwest of England with hundreds of vacancies such as purchase ledger clerk, telesales, vehicle sales, admin and secretarial.
The Olde Railway Hotel - Irish hotel. Jobs available all times of the year, particulary for cooks, chefs etc. Restaurant and bar positions also. Full training can be given, live in or out.
Origin Care - Paid work caring for people with spinal injuries. 
Oxygen 8 - Distributors of Eastern European software in the UK. Work permit sponsorship for non EU IT contractors. Contract finding and employment services also available. Oxygen can also help students that require visa status transfers convert to contracting.
Ozzfest - Music festival.
Paddywagon Tours - Employ Irish drivers only.
Parexel - Phase 2 clinical trials. When we visited them they were looking for men aged 18 to 50, in a good state of health and, preferably, non smokers.
Pebbles Unlimited - Au Pair agency based in France and England. Their service is free to register for au pairs and they carry out thourough checks on the families where they send au pairs to ensure maximum security. Placements from four months to two years. 
Personnel Solutions - Recruitment of chefs and hospitality staff for vacancies in hotels, restaurant and quality pubs, both local and nationwide.
Portmarnock Hotel and Golf Links - A luxurious hotel, eight miles from Dublin airport, situated on the grounds of one of Ireland's most prestigious golf courses. Jobs section.
Richmond Pharmacology - Clinical trials. Volunteer perks at their new unit in Wimbledon, London include a PC room with free internet access, TV, sataelite and DVD and a bistro style cafeteria.
Robert Walters - Temp and permanent vacancies in banking and finance, accountancy, secretarial and call centres. Offices in both the UK and Ireland.
The Royal Dublin Hotel - Hotel jobs in Dublin.
Seabrook Reseach - IT recruitment in Ireland.
Seasonal Staff UK - Live-in jobs in hotels, country inns & pubs throughout the country, ideal for gap year travellers, post graduates, backpackers. Min 3 month contracts, applicants must be English speaking if not EU, have a work permit or working holiday visa.
Skea Organics - Vegetable work available during the summer in Scotland.
Spring Education - Agency.
STA Travel - A real job rather than casual, short term work, but worth listing because they encourage their sales team to continue travelling and offer special airfares and a travel allowance of £350 per year. There are also possibilities of regular educational trips and foreign work exchanges. Several nationalities work at STA, but applicants should speak and write English fluently and have the right to work in the UK for at least 2 years.
Strand Nursing - For private and NHS nursing.
Stray Travel Network - British HGV/PSV licence holders, 100% proud of their country and able to work with people of all ages and nationalities, may apply to drive travellers around England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland.
SummerJobs4Students.co.uk - An online service dedicated to helping students find temporary employment in the UK including tourism, leisure, hospitality, childcare, retail, agricultural & office jobs.

 

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