Help finding jobs, apprenticeships and work experience
It can be hard knowing where to look for jobs, apprenticeships and work experience. Here are some resources and signposting links to help.
Useful places to explore careers (including apprenticeships)
- Prospects.ac.uk: take the career quiz and find your perfect job matches
- Start Profile: information on different job roles
- Apprenticeships.gov: browse ‘career starter’ apprenticeships
- Career pilot: explore careers and apprenticeships
- Target jobs: advice and guidance around choosing and applying for apprenticeships
- UCAS: information on apprenticeships
- Amazing Apprenticeships: information on apprenticeships
- National Careers Service: careers information, advice and guidance
- Gov T Levels: Government information on T Levels
- UCAS degree apprenticeships: information on degree apprenticeships
Places to look for jobs:
- The Care Leaver Covenant: a database of opportunities created specifically for care-experienced young people aged 16-25. You can filter the offers by ‘type’ and select ‘work and jobs’. You can also sign-up for ‘Connects’ to get email updates with new opportunities.
- Total Jobs
- Guardian Jobs
- Reed
- Monster
- Glassdoor
- Indeed
- CV Library
- Milkround: graduate jobs, internships and degree apprenticeships
- Not Going To Uni: apprenticeships, school leaver jobs and training schemes
- Changemaker Jobs: charity sector job vacancies
- Civil Service Jobs: jobs in the Civil Service and central government organisations. The Civil Service also offer a paid internship for care leavers aged 18-30
- If you’re currently unemployed, your local jobcentre plus can help you look for work
- On your local authority’s website, for example, Jobs and careers with Coventry City Council. All local authorities have targets to get local people into local jobs, so it’s always worth checking what opportunities yours has an offer. Your local authority may also offer 1:1 job-finding support for young people who are not in education, employment or training
- On social media sites like Linkedin, by selecting the ‘jobs’ tab in your account
- A specific employer’s website, usually under ‘careers’, ‘jobs’ or ‘vacancies’, for example, Become posts jobs that we’re hiring for here, under ‘jobs’
Places to look for work experience:
- You can approach any employer to ask about work experience, even if they’re not advertising it. You can ask someone in person at a local business or call/email an organisation you find online, using their public contact information. Make sure they are a trustworthy, legitimate business that will support you properly and ask as far in advance as possible, so that the employer has time to organise the placement
- The Care Leaver Covenant: a database of opportunities created specifically for care-experienced young people. You can filter the offers by ‘type’ and select ‘work and jobs’, to explore employers to contact about work experience
- Springpod: free virtual work experience opportunities and university taster modules
- Prospects: information, advice and opportunities
- Milkround: internship opportunities
Places to look for apprenticeships, T levels and degree apprenticeships:
- Government website: explore apprenticeship vacancies
- Apprenticeships.gov: browse live apprenticeship vacancies
- UCAS: explore apprenticeship vacancies
- The Care Leaver Covenant: a database of opportunities specifically created for care-experienced young people. You can filter the offers by ‘type’ and select ‘apprenticeships’, to explore them
- Your local authority’s website, for example, Islington Council
- Government website: explore T Level opportunities near you
- UCAS: explore degree apprenticeships vacancies
- Amazing Apprenticeships: explore degree apprenticeship vacancies via this annually updated list
Apprenticeships training providers:
These organizations act like a recruitment agency for apprenticeships so can be a useful starting point to finding an apprenticeship.
- Online Qualifications: The AIM Group
- Multiverse
- QA: World-Leading Tech Training, Skills, Talent & Apprenticeships
- Learn Plus Us
Other useful resources for learning about jobs and apprenticeships and creating a strong application:
- Support for care experienced people taking apprenticeships | Undergraduate, Apprenticeships: UCAS apprenticeship guide for care-experienced people
- Amazing Apprenticeships: if you go to ‘Resources’ and search ‘care leaver’, they have lots of useful information tailored towards care-experienced young people
- Google Docs: Google Docs have free ‘Resume’ templates, which you can use to create a CV
- Target Jobs: advice for school leavers
- Reed:‘Career Advice’ pages
- Indeed: ‘Career Guide’ pages
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