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Employment
Resources |
| Advice & Useful Sites for Finding Work |
| Accountancy
Jobs - Providing a job search by accountancy
skills or by location. Job profiles and related
accountancy job articles featured. |
| BBC
Radio1 - Their target audience
is around 18 to 25 and often provide free booklets and information
aimed at this group. Usually provide university and gap
year info each year. |
| Britain
on a Budget - Written by American students
for American students about study, travel and work in Britain.
The site is attractive and easy to traverse, with a good
range of information covering all the different regions
of the UK. Student writers have a chance to get published,
throw promotional parties advertising Britain on a Budget,
and fly to Britain for free by becoming a Student Ambassador. |
| Career
Magazine UK - Search for jobs and careers
online. |
| CVPoster.com
- Specialists in online CV distribution. Submit your CV
to 1000's of UK recruiters free of charge. |
| Education-jobs
- Jobs website for Teachers and other school staff. |
| Employment4students
- A job advertising site dedicated to finding students the
right jobs at the right time. Includes free job alerts,
monthly newsletters and more. |
| European
Language Centre of Ireland - Hold weekend and online
TEFL training courses throughout Ireland designed to give
students the tools they need to teach with confidence and
successfully find a job abroad. All courses are accredited
by the Open and Distance Learning Quality Council, the stamp
of quality in open and distance learning. |
| The
Gables School of Cookery - Offers cookery courses
for those on a gap year. |
| hotrecruit.co.uk
- Specialises in finding work for students and backpackers
in interesting and offbeat temporary positions. |
| Jobs
Word - Comprehensive listings of specialist UK
recruitment sites covering all areas and job types. |
| Leisurecruit - Hospitality, leisure and travel work in the UK. Thousands
of jobs available from some of the top recruiters in the
Kingdom. |
| Lifebyte
- A youth internet portal providing information for living.
As well as covering travel, finance, sport, health, sex
and other issues, it includes information about working
abroad. |
| The
London Link - Information for people coming to Britain
including jobs, particularly those that appeal to people
new to London. Also jobs that require the knowledge of foreign
languages.Registered members can complete a CV and send
it to jobs they are interested in. In English and Italian. |
| The
London Teacher Training Centre - TEFL courses by
distance learning. |
| Monster.co.uk |
| NursefindersUK
- An online recruitment service for nurses seeking work
in London and UK. There is also information on nursing and
living in London. |
| Ozzfest - Music festival. |
| Planet
Recruit - Job matching service. |
| Redgoldfish
Jobs - Job search portal detailing over 50,000
jobs within the UK. |
| Season
Workers.com - Reunites old friends from independent
and working travel, and helps people who are going travelling
to find a job abroad in advance. The team behind Season
Workers are all from a travel background and committed to
providing the best information for independent and working
travellers available. |
| Secretarial
Jobs - Secretarial job site. |
| TaxBack.com
- Organises tax back for people of all ages and sectors
who have worked in the UK or Ireland. |
| TNT
- These guys provide an excellent free weekly magazine for
Australians, Kiwis and South Africans in London and another
for visitors to Oz. Copies of TNT and their sister publication,
Southern Cross, can be found outside central London tube
and train stations. For a few stamps and a nominal fee they
also provide various travel planners to Britain, Australia
and New Zealand - see their site for more details. |
| Top
Language Jobs - Specialist website for multilingual
and bilingual jobs in the UK and Ireland. |
Gap Year & Voluntary Work |
| Unpaid Positions & Adventure |
| Aberdeen International Youth Festival - The Festival attracts an array of talent from across the world and
offers you a chance to experience a range of quality and
diverse performances. Over 60 temporary and volunteer staff are required during the Festival. Positions include administration, production, transport, pastoral staff, participant liaison and runners. |
| British
Trust for Conservation Volunteers - Week or weekend
long conservation projects in Britain. |
| British
Waterways - Website for the organisation responsible
for maintaining Britain's old industrial canals. There are
plenty of volunteer opportunities to be found among the
waterside societies. |
| 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. |
| Community
Service Volunteers - Projects in the UK for Brits
and foreigners. |
| Conservation
Volunteers Northern Ireland - Conservation Volunteers
Northern Ireland (CVNI) is a registered charity involved
in practical conservation work. Work is carried out throughout
Northern Ireland. Task projects include a diverse variety
of activities such as tree-planting, dry-stone walling,
path creation, river clearance and pond construction as
well as office work. The organisation also provides an extensive
range of training courses. |
| Edinburgh International Film Festival - Had, in 2008, 80 paid, 120 volunteer and nine internship positions. |
| Electric Picnic - Irish music festival that has volunteer roles on offer. |
| Euro Practice - Internships, language courses, work and study programmes and au pair positions for European students. Offices in France, England, Germany and Spain. |
| Ffestiniog
Railway Company - The oldest independent railway
company in the world offers a chance to fulfil every boys'
first career choice. |
| Gatecrasher - Music festival. There may be possibilities for free entrance in exchange for volunteer work. |
| Glastonbury - The big music festival in Somerset. Paid jobs available for skilled technical staff and security. Also opportunities to work for your ticket or gain work experience. |
| Hackney
Independent Living Team - Voluntary community work. |
| Hay Festival - Literary festival held in Wales attracting luminaries such as Salman Rushdie, Jeremy Clarkson and Jools Holland and Martin Amis. Both volunteer and paid job available. Welsh language skills an advantage for some positions. |
| Hebridean
Whale and Dolphin Trust - Volunteers wanted. |
| Holy
Island Project - Working holidays available at a
peaceful Yorkshire Buddhist centre. 35 hours labour a week
in exchange for food, lodging and teachings. |
| IAESTE
UK - The International Association for the Exchange
of Students for Technical Experience arranges on the job
training for science and engineering university students. |
| Independent
Living Alternatives - ILA recruits full-time volunteers
for 4 months or more, to enable disabled people to live
independently. |
| Isle of Wight Festival - Music festival. |
| Mission
to Seafarers - One year programme assisting chaplains.
Committed Christians only. |
| Monkey
Sanctuary - Home to a colony of woolly monkeys,
the Sanctuary accepts several dozen volunteers a year. Volunteers
stay for 2 to 4 weeks and contribute a small sum towards
the cost of accommodation and food. |
Oxfam Stewarding - Oxfam provide stewarding for a number of festivals including Glastonbury, Womad, Reading and Leeds. Priority is given to past stewards and regular supporters of Oxfam, with unfilled positions opened up to the public from around the end of March. Stewarding roles vary from festival to but could involve working the gate, showing people where to camp or looking out for fires. Oxfam stewards are able to get away from the muck and mess of a festival, they have their own camping area, toilets and showers, and receive meal tickets. Alternatively consider campaigning for Oxfam, getting festival goers to take part in Oxfam's festival activities. Both roles require you to be 18 years old and to pay a refundable deposit by credit or debit card.
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| Trees
for Life - Volunteers needed to restore the Caledonian
Forest in Scotland. No special skills or qualifications
are needed to participate but, because the work is often
in remote areas, volunteers need to be relatively fit but
not exceptionally so. |
| United
Nations International Volunteer Projects - Over
1000 projects in Europe and North America as well as a more
specialised programme of projects in more than 20 countries
in Africa, Asia and Latin America. |
| Urban Saints - Christian youth organisation. Volunteer holiday helpers required |
| Voluntary
Service Belfast - Undertake community and conservation
tasks in the province and gain experience that can lead
to nationally recognized qualifications. |
| Volunteering
Ireland - A helpful resource centre for anything
and everything to do with volunteering in Ireland. They
are not an employer or even a recruiter of volunteers for
themselves but they do try to find volunteers for Irish
organisations that need them. |
Living in the UK & Ireland |
| Real Estate and Resources for Staying Long Term |
| Arrive
and Thrive in the UK - A guide for immigration, however temporary, to
the UK. |
| BBC Homes - Good quality information about buying, selling and improving a property undoubtedly drawing on the experience of all those daytime programmes. |
| Diggers and Dreamers - A guide to communual living in Britain. |
| Migrationexpert.co.uk - Provides free UK immigration eligibility assessment.
An independent online source for personalised advice on
migrating to the UK and UK Immigration Law. |
| UK Yankee - For expat Americans living in the UK. |
Travelling in the UK & Ireland |
| Accommodation & Getting Around |
| Accommodation
for Students - A search engine for student accommodation
in the UK. |
| @UK - UK tourism guide with information county by county, chat
and webcams. |
| bunk.com - Compare student accommodation facilities at 240 universities
and colleges across the UK. |
| Dublinconnect - A guide that includes travel tips, cheap restaurants,
accommodation and night life. |
| Homes
For Students - Student accommodation in the UK.
Find private sector housing throughout the country or use
the free student only flatmate finder system to find roommates. |
| Housepals - A one stop shop for all your flatshare, flatmate
and house sharing needs and it's free to advertise
a room. |
| Ireland
- YES! - Jump-start your trip to Ireland. Insider
tips from "Ireland Expert" Michele Erdvig on planning your
perfect trip to the Emerald Isle: B&Bs, pubs, restaurants,
transportation, driving, food, lodging, live weather page,
top 10 list, packing, budgeting, itineraries and much more.
Cut through the info overload and get right to the facts. |
| Leeds
Homestay Services - Safe homestay accommodation
in local homes in Leeds, home to two universities,
night life, shops and beautiful countryside. They
say it is much cheaper than London. |
| liftshare.com - Free online journey matching service. |
| London
Eats.com - A guide to restaurants in the London
area. |
| Mozzie.co.uk - Online community for all travellers to the UK
and Europe. Search hotels, hostels, flights, car
hire, cheap international calls, phone cards and
other travel resources. |
| MyLifts.com - An internet service that lets you search for ride sharers. Automatic matching
within 30km. |
| National
Carshare - A rideshare information service with
free driver/passenger matching. |
| Radical
Travel - Blarney Bus in Ireland, Haggis Scotland
and Border Raiders in England. |
| Tourism
Ireland - The official agency for promoting the
Island of Ireland overseas. Provides information on getting
there, getting around, accommodation, regions and cities,
outdoor pursuits and much more. |
| UK
Airport News - The latest news for any UK
airport, plus a news archive. |
| The
UK Travel Guide - Information on where to stay,
what to do, and useful numbers and addresses in the UK and
London. Included is a clickable map to the capital and the
country. |
| Visit
Britain - Official tourist site. |
Other |
| Culture, News... |
| The
Best of British - Welcome (Howdy) to the American's
guide to speaking British. |
| Eden
Project - Recreations of tropical and arid environments
housed in the world's biggest greenhouse. |
| English
Language Training - A language school in a fashionable
area of London specialising in English language courses
for au pairs and overseas visitors. |
| The
Football Association |
| InterStudent
- A large online resource for prospective students in the
UK, written by students for students. Its city-by-city focus
will help this year's crop of prospective students find
information on the best places to live, shop, study and
party in each University town, as recommended by the students
who are already there. The site also includes advice on
banking, loans, insurance, gap years, health, travel and
accommodation, and services available on the site for recent
graduates such as CV writing advice, temporary and permanent
job search facilities, accommodation information and testimonials
from other graduates on how to make the step into the working
world. |
| Irish
News - Newspaper. |
| Language
Trainers.co.uk - Spanish language courses in London
for companies and one to one courses for individuals. |
| Learn
Spanish London - Cactus Language offers Spanish
Language Courses in London. Courses are available in the
evening for all levels and all ages. |
| The
London Daily - Provides the latest news stories
from a variety of sources and includes a guide to the capital. |
| MyLanguageExchange.com
- Learn English. |
| My
UK Mail - Members receive their own UK street
address to receive mail and parcels while mail
is forwarded on, wherever you are in the world. |
| PocketDialUK - Make instant low cost international calls from
your UK landline. |
| Saint
George International - TEFL and TESOL certificate
and diploma courses in central London. British
Council accredited language school. |
| Sprachcaffe
- Learn English in England, USA, Malta and Australia, French
in France, Italian in Italy, Spanish in Spain and Cuba,
German in Germany, all in a relaxed atmosphere. |
| Sprachschulen
in London - International English language school
in London. |
| Streetmap
- Lost in Britain? |
| StudentUK
- Slick portal for students in the UK. |
| UCAS
- Universities and colleges admissions service for the UK. |
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