Job Vacancies: Where To Find The Best Jobs and How to Guarantee You'll Win Interviews

Jobs are advertised in a wide variety of different places. You can find job vacancies in major newspapers or online at a job site, plus a myriad of other places too.

Below we'll tell you the best places to find a job and how to significantly multiply your chances, so that you're guaranteed to win the interviews you want.

You Must Have a Great CV to Win a Job Vacancy

Before we look at where to find job vacancies, we should remind you that you'll need to ensure that you have a great CV. When you apply for jobs vacancies, you may be competing with 100s of other applicants. If your CV isn't as good as the other CVs, then you simply won't get an interview.

You may therefore want to consider using a CV writing service who can create a professional CV for you that can beat the 100s of other applicants who are targeting the same advertised job vacancies as you.

Where are Job Vacancies Advertised?

These days job vacancies are advertised in a wide range of different media from traditional national newspapers through to online job sites and smartphone apps. Which one is right for you will depend on the profession and sector you are in.

To improve your chances of success don't focus on just jobs from one type of media, try out the other media listed below - certain types of jobs may be advertised more in one type of media, so you may miss out if you're not looking for job vacancies in this media.

Employers Websites Often Feature a Job Vacancy Section

Employers own websites are a great source of jobs vacancies and could be one of the first places you look if you have already identified particular employers that you would really like to work for.

Most large employers and even some smaller employer have their own dedicated jobs site or a careers section on their own website. All you have to do is take a look at their vacancies and see if they have any jobs that you would like to apply for and then send them your CV and cover letter.

If there are no suitable job vacancies listed, but you know this employer employs people in your profession, then you could send them a speculative cover letter together with your CV.

Job Vacancies on Online Job Sites

You are likely to find lots and lots of job vacancies on the large online generalist job sites that advertise jobs for every profession and each sector. You can sign-up for their jobs by email service where they email you each suitable job vacancy that matches the criteria you have set.

You can also get their smartphone apps, although if you're signed up for their jobs by email services, you won't really need their app.

Specialist job sites can be a great place to find job vacancies within your particular profession and sector, plus there is often less 'noise' (applications from unsuitable candidates) than on the large generalist job sites, which means that you CV is less likely to get 'lost'.

To increase your chances of getting a job interview, make sure you send a well-written cover letter with your CV. Most applicants just send a 'here is my CV' type cover letter, which wastes a major opportunity to really impress an employer. Please see our professional cover letter service or our cover letter example.

National Newspapers Advertising Jobs Vacancies

There are still job vacancies advertised in the national daily newspapers such as The Guardian, The Independent, The Telegraph, The Times and The Financial Times. So don't miss out by ignoring these newspapers if they advertise jobs in your sector.

You don't have to buy any of these newspapers if all you want to do is look at their job vacancies, because each newspaper has its own associated job site, so you can view their jobs vacancies for free.

You can also sign-up for their jobs by email services - even if you actually get the newspaper yourself, it's still worth signing up, as you're likely to see the jobs before they're published in the printed newspaper.

As with other jobs vacancies, you'll normally need a CV and a cover letter to apply. Please check out our CV writing and how to start a cover letter articles.

Regional and Local Newspaper Job Vacancies

As well as the nationals, there are also local and regional daily / weekly newspapers that list job vacancies - they tend to cover only certain types of jobs - if these are the type of jobs that you are applying for, these newspapers can be a great way to quickly find a job, as you will be competing against far fewer people on a local level, compared to a national paper where a job vacancy may attracts 100s of applicants..

Again these newspaper typically have an associated jobs site, so take a look in your local and regional newspapers to see their website address and sign-up for free job alerts if they have the type of job vacancy that you are seeking.

When your looking to move to a new area, you can find out which local and regional newspapers serve this area and then look at their associated websites.

Job Vacancies in Trade Journals / Magazines

Most professions have trade journals / magazines, and subscriptions are often free if you are already in this profession.

If you are a member of a professional body / institute, then you are also likely to receive a magazine from them that lists job vacancies.

Most of these magazines / journals will have an associated website that is likely to feature any job vacancies that are displayed in the printed version.

It's also worth reading the printed version or its online equivalent, as they will feature employers in your sector and tell you who is expanding - you can approach these companies directly with your CV and speculative cover letter.

Job Centres

If you're unemployed you may have been to your local Job Centre, which has its own job vacancy service - they may not have anything suitable for you, but you never know unless you take a look.

How to Maximise The Number of Interviews You Get

Don't rely on just one job site or one type of media, expecting to see all the job vacancies within your sector listed. At the start of your job search campaign you should try lots of different approaches to see what works best for you.

If one particular job site / media is landing you lots of interviews, then you should spend more time applying for jobs using this job site / media.

As well as the job search methods presented here, you should also use other methods, such as registering with recruitment agencies, networking and speculative job applications.

Advertised job vacancies can attract 100s of applicants, so you must make both your CV and cover letter stand out. Most people quickly put a CV and cover letter together with hardly any thought of what the employer is looking for and are then completely surprised when they are rejected (or hear nothing at all back from the employer).

You therefore need to learn about CV writing yourself, so you can put together a great CV and cover letter or you need to find some first-class CV writers who can create a high impact CV and cover letter that will generate the attention you want, which will secure you a job that much faster.

To get a good response from employers, your CV and cover letter must tell an employer why you are the best candidate:

• What have you got to offer them?
• Why should they pick you, rather than the other applicants?
• Why must they invite you to an interview?

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