Guidance & Support on Applying for Placements
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If you are a student who is currently in the process of applying for placements. please use this booklet to view guidance and resources available to you to help you secure a placement offer.
6. Jobs Boards: Where to look for placements
JOB BOARDS
Startups - Some websites that focus on UK and international startups and SMEs
Outside of a company’s vacancy page, there are several places where placements will be advertised so it is useful to become acquainted with them. To do this, sign up to popular job boards and toggle to allow job alerts so you can be kept up to date with placements/internships that are advertised on a daily, weekly or monthly basis.
Please find below a table of popular jobs boards that SEF students have used for finding/applying for placements:
- QMUL Target Connect – University of London Job board (specific for QMUL);
- Bright Network- useful website that a lot of large employers post on when their placements schemes are open
- RateMyPlacement - website dedicated to placements, where you can also find company and job reviews from previous placement students.
- Civil Service jobs - jobs board for roles within the civil service
- Indeed - popular job board that also posts placement schemes
- Gradcracker - Careers website for STEM students, has opportunities in business/finance/economics also
- CIMA - for accounting and finance related jobs
- Target Jobs – Under 'opportunity type' you can filter for Placement;
- LinkedIn Jobs - LinkedIn jobs section is used by various employers to promote their opportunities
- Milkround – Search for 'Placement Year Intern';
- Student Ladder – Select 'Degree Year 2' on the bar at the top and then choose the column on the right - 'Industrial Placements';
- eFinancial Careers – You can find finance-related jobs;
- Prospects – Look at 'Job profiles' under the 'jobs and work experience' section;
- Mergers & Inquisitions – Comprehensive website about the financial sector with articles explaining different types of jobs and giving cv tips;
- Inside Careers - Similarly to the previous one, this website provides you with detailed information about some economics & finance related career paths. Once you select a profession type, you can also browse for jobs listed and look for placements;
- Going Global- Once you sign up, you can look for opportunities, industries and companies abroad;
- Glassdoor - Extremely useful website to check companies ratings, work cultures and reviews as well as apply for jobs;
- Debut Careers - Debut App allows you to browse hundreds of jobs with top employers on your phone, apply with the touch of a button. Employers get in touch with you directly to fast-track you, skipping application forms on your way to interviews and exclusive events - sometimes even before you've applied! Available on iOS and Android.
- Ladder is an online professional community for thousands of college students with a large range of internships and jobs.
- QTemps - Paid temporary work for Queen Mary students and graduates, including roles on campus and with our external business partners.
Startups - Some websites that focus on UK and international startups and SMEs
- Work in Startups
- UK Startup Jobs
- Unicorn Hunt
- Angel List
- Tech London
- Crunchbase - this is a useful tool to read startup-related news and check company information (such as funding rounds or investors).
Internships in the US
- USA Gov: government website with a job directory. It also explains the inside out of visas and immigration rules for job seekers.
- Career One Stop
- InternJobs
- CareerBank
- this article by Forbes lists some of the best websites to find an internship in the US and how to use them.
