Find a job

General job hunting tips

• Ask a few people you trust to look at your resume and give you feedback. Resume.io is an excellent resume tool.

• Reach out to anyone you already know who might be able to help you find a job - here is a template to use.

Use LinkedIn

For many industries, LinkedIn is one of the most popular recruitment tools in the UK. It's worth making sure that you're making your LinkedIn profile work as hard for you as possible.

Here are some tips:

• Let recruiters on LinkedIn know you're open to work (and specify the UK as your location).

• It can be worth paying for LinkedIn Premium while you're actively jobhunting.

• Make your LinkedIn profile work harder for you.

• Use LinkedIn's job search tools.

• Make connections with secondary connections in your industry who work in the UK, and use this as a springboard to research relevant vacancies.

Job-hunting sites

• Reed: One of the biggest job-hunting sites, and they’re good for broad searches (but they don’t have an easy way for you to filter by visa sponsorship).

• The UK government’s job-hunting platform: A surprisingly great tool for finding diverse jobs, from entry-level barista positions to high-paid software engineering posts. There are special sub-sections for teachers and healthcare jobs.

• UK Hired: A niche job board for companies that offer visa sponsorship.

• Expatica UK: Another job board for companies offering visa sponsorship.

• Otta: A great job-hunting site specifically for people who work in tech.

• Hired: Flips things around – you create a profile, and potential employers apply to you (like Offerzen in South Africa).

• The Guardian Jobs: Great if you work in the media, arts, education or healthcare sectors.

• If You Could Jobs: For jobs in the creative industry.

Any other UK jobhunting tips to share? Let us know in the comments!