The best career websites by sector
20th November 2019
When you get, or have, a job idea for the future, it is often hard to know where to turn if you want to read up on it in more depth. Here is a carefully chosen selection of CareerWave’s favourite career websites by sector (or industry).
If it’s a large database of sectors and jobs you are after this is where you need to be; nationalcareers.service.gov.uk.
Accountancy, Business and Finance
www.libf.ac.uk/my-financial-career (London Institute of Banking and Finance)
www.careers.icaew.com (Accountancy)
www.accaglobal.com (Accountancy)
www.aat.org.uk/career-in-finance (Accounting Technicians)
www.actuaries.org.uk/become-actuary
www.discoverrisk.co.uk (Insurance, Risk Management)
www.cisi.org (A career in Investment including stockbrokerage)
www.cim.co.uk/more/get-into-marketing/
www.aeo.org.uk (Events Management)
www.cipd.co.uk/careers (Human Resources)
www.cipsibuy.com (Be a Buyer)
Construction
www.housebuildingcareers.org.uk
www.rics.org/uk/surveying-profession
www.rtpi.org.uk (Town Planning)
Creative Arts, Media and Culture
discovercreative.careers (a directory that pulls in career information from lots of other creative websites including some of those below)
www.ccskills.org.uk/careers (Creative Choices)
www.dba.org.uk/all-about-design/careers-in-design
www.the-aop.org (Photography)
www.thecreativeindustries.org.uk
www.craftscouncil.org.uk/articles/craft-journeys-inside-careers-in-craft
www.publishers.co.uk/activities/careers
www.cvan.art (Contemporary Visual Arts Network)
www.cdmt.org.uk (Council for Dance, Drama and Musical Theatre)
www.ukft.org (fashion and textiles)
www.ipa.co.uk/knowledge/careers-in-advertising
www.nuj.org.uk/work/careers (National Union of Journalists)
www.nctj.com/want-to-be-a-journalist
Digital and IT
www.bubble-jobs.co.uk/career_portal
www.tpdegrees.com/careers (cases studies about people in IT and Digital)
www.cybersecuritychallenge.org.uk
www.aixr.org/insights (emerging world of Extended Reality-XR)
Energy, Engineering & Manufacturing
www.imeche.org (Mechanical Engineering)
www.ice.org.uk/what-is-civil-engineering
www.istructe.org/become-a-structural-engineer
www.autocity.org.uk (Motor Vehicles)
www.talentsourcenetwork.co.uk (Energy and Utilities)
www.renewableuk.com/page/Careers
www.ior.org.uk/careers (Refrigeration, Air Conditioning)
www.ioa.org.uk/careers (Institute of Acoustics)
www.icme.org.uk/careers (Institute of Cast Metals Engineers)
Food and Drink
Health, Social Care, Teaching, Childcare
www.medschools.ac.uk (Entry Requirements for Medical Schools)
www.skillsforcare.org.uk/Care-careers/Think-Care-Careers
www.basw.org.uk/become-social-worker
www.education.gov.uk/getintoteaching
www.cache.org.uk (Pathways into Early Years)
www.pacey.org.uk/working-in-childcare
www.nya.org.uk/careers-youth-work
careers.bps.org.uk (British Psychological Society)
www.bacp.co.uk/careers (British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy)
www.bda.org/careers (British Dental Association)
www.aop.org.uk (Association of Optometrists)
www.rpharms.com (Royal Pharmaceutical Society- excellent leaflet at the bottom of this linked page)
Land-based (including Animal Care, Agriculture, Conservation & Countryside)
www.caw.ac.uk/careers (Animals)
animalowners.rcvs.org.uk/veterinary-careers
www.bvna.org.uk/a-career-in-veterinary-nursing
pathways.bhs.org.uk/career-pathways (Working with horses)
www.biaza.org.uk/careers (Zoos and Aquariums)
www.horticulture.org.uk/grow-careers
www.rfs.org.uk/forestry-careers (the video clips at the bottom of this link are recommended)
www.gamekeepertrust.org.uk/countryside-management
Law
www.cilexcareers.org.uk (Chartered Institute of Legal Executives)
Science and Pharmaceuticals
www.iop.org/careers (Physics)
www.rsc.org/careers/future (Chemistry)
www.rsb.org.uk (Biology)
www.biochemistry.org (Biochemical Society)
www.careers.abpi.org.uk (Pharmaceutical)
www.rcpath.org/discover-pathology
www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/careers/your-career (Meteorology)
www.geolsoc.org.uk (Geology)
www.ras.ac.uk (Royal Astronomical Society)
Sport, Leisure and Tourism
www.bases.org.uk (British Association of Sport and Exercise Science)
careerscope.uk.net (Hospitality, Leisure and Tourism)
Transport and Logistics
www.nats.aero/careers (Air Traffic Control)
ciltuk.org.uk (Logistics and Transport)
www.ukwa.org.uk (Warehousing)
Uniformed and Public Services
www.neas.nhs.uk/careers (North East Ambulance Service)
www.civil-service-careers.gov.uk