Useful careers websites

Choosing your degree course

• bestCourse4me.com
  New website that brings together data on employment, careers and salaries and allws you to compare graduate earnings per subjects at different universities. Useful data on different career paths including salary data and information degree subjects studied. 
• Prospects
  data on the graduate destinations of UK graduates and a postgraduate course search facility.
• UniStats
  A government website that publishes information about universities to help students choose their degree programme, including graduate employment data and results of the National Student Survey.
• UK Council for International Student Affairs (UKCiSA)
  Information on recognition of qualifications, visas, study abroad options and lots of advice about studying in the UK.

Careers websites

• Careers Group, University of London - lots of information in the 'Virtual Careers Library' 
• TargetJobs - graduate careers website containing a searchable database of job vacancies.
• Graduate Jobsearch Online - An online guide to help graduates identify vacancies and opportunities in the UK and abroad. Developed by the University of Strathclyde Careers Service
• Inside Careers - careers advice and the latest graduate vacancies
• Prospects - essential graduate careers website. Lots of information on job roles, employment sectors, graduate destinations of UK graduates, information for international students and graduate job vacancies.  Prospects have also compiled a range of leaflets aimed at prospective students choosing degree subject, which look at skills and related employment.  Subjects to study
• The Job Crowd - a platform for employee written job descriptions, where employees describe what their job really involves (and give advice on how to get it) to help graduates and other job seekers to properly understand what different jobs are really like on a day-to-day basis.
• Vault - extensive careers information and employer profiles
• PathMotion - designed to help you investigate career opportunities based on people with the same background, strengths and aspirations as you, PathMotion will help you discover your own work preferences, what others like you have done and careers suited to your background as well as job vacancies
• Graduate Recruitment Bureau  graduate careers website containing a searchable database of job vacancies .

LSE websites

• Graduate destinations - information on what LSE students do after graduation, with extensive data based on surveys and real life graduate profiles per department
• Undergraduate - all the essential information you need about coming to study at LSE, including the undergraduate prospectus
• Graduate - essential guide to coming to study at LSE and the postgraduate prospectus
• Financial support office
• Information for overseas students -bank accounts, health services, student visas, registering with the police.
• Student Recruitment Office
  Find out how you can meet with LSE representatives near you.

Jobs websites

• Job Centre Plus - official government job service.
• Jobs.ac.uk - academic jobs website
• www.jobseekers-uk.com - lists recruitment agencies who are members of the Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC)
• Employment4students - range of graduate and part time jobs and internships.
• Milkround Online - search for jobs with leading UK recruiters and get up-to-date employment news
• Monster.co.uk - access to job vacancies in a range of sectors
• Reed - employment agency - permanent and temporary job vacancies in a range of sectors

National newspapers

• The Evening Standard- for news and jobs in London
• The Financial Times
• The Guardian 
• The Times
• The Independent

Recruitment agencies

• City based recruitment agencies (pdf)  a list of recruitment agencies based in the City of London, may be particularly useful for positions in finance-related positions.
• Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) have a list of member agencies which you can search according to industry sector
• Employment4Students provides a good list of recruitment agencies with work suitable for students: e4s:Recruitment agencies