I thought I’d publish links to the main sites I’ve used whilst searching for a job. If you have any suggestions for other sites you think I should consider, then please send them via my contact form.
- Local Government Jobs (Scotland Only)
- Scotsman Jobs
- Jobcentre Plus (DirectGov)
- Scottish Government Jobs
- Hays Recruitment
- Total Jobs
- Twitter Jobs
- Jobsite UK
- Monster Jobs
- Indeed Jobs
- Carillion
- JobsInScotland
You might find that the same vacancies are advertised on multiple sites but the more you check the better, just in case there are vacancies that are not duplicated. However, its probably not worthwhile checking both the Scotsman and Jobsite UK as the Scotsman’s site is powered by Jobsite UK database.
Jobcentre Plus
Don’t think that the Jobcentre Plus site will be good because it’s a government site… less than 30% of jobs that are advertised, are on Jobcentre Plus at DirectGov (many jobs are never advertised at all).
The search function on the Jobcentre Plus site is particularly bad because it truncates (or extends) the results of searches to 100 vacancies no matter how wide or narrow the search. Whether you search for vacancies in Tobermory or London, there are always exactly 100 vacancies and they’re not neccessarily in the location you searched for.
Jobcentre Plus often get the specifics of the job description wrong too, a recently advertised vacancy by the company Balfour Beatty used the term “generous package” to describe the salary offered on their Website, whilst on the Jobcentre Plus site, it described the same position’s salary as “meets statutory minimum wage”.
