Looking for Job Vacancies

Employment Agencies

You may wish to register with an Employment Agency as this can be a good way to find temporary or permanent work. You can:

• Use telephone directories online to find lists of agencies. Employment agencies are listed in local Yellow Pages and Thomson directories as well as many other online telephone listings.
• Contact employment agencies direct. For a list of the of the largest employment agencies and their web sites see Bedfordshire Libraries Gateway.

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The Internet

For a useful list of jobs and careers web sites click Gateway to the Internet.

Listings include jobs in this country and abroad.

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Job Centre Plus

Jobcentre Plus can help you find the right kind of job: full time or part time, temporary or permanent.

A national 'Jobseeker Direct' helpline is available from Job Centre Plus (Telephone: 0845 6060 234). It keeps you in touch with the latest job vacancies and helps you find the job that's right for you. Once you find a job you're interested in, you will be helped to apply. Jobseeker Direct will send you an application form and, where possible, ring the employer there and then to arrange an interview.

Contact details for local Job Centre Plus.

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Newspapers

Local Newspapers

Local newspapers advertise job vacancies. All Bedfordshire Libraries take their appropriate local newspapers. Some local newspapers have web sites which include job vacancies. 

Click for a list of local newspapers and their websites.

National Newspapers

National newspapers advertise job vacancies. Click for a list of the job vacancies in national newspapers showing on which days specific types of jobs are advertised.

To find out which libraries take which national newspapers click on the following links:

• Newspapers at Bedford Central Library 

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