Home country:

• Continue to stay in touch with contacts/networks in your home country
• Register with agencies / job sites a few months before the end of your course
• Make home visits useful for employment/work experience and networking, not just a holiday
• Develop your English Language skills to higher levels
• Join your UK university’s Alumni Association
• Join the British Council Alumni Association.

Researching global opportunities:

• Find out about recruitment process / methods used in your chosen country (home or other)
• Check out the timings & application process
• Use “country profiles” as part of your research
• Use Prospects International graduate jobs
  and NASES Country guides to search jobs
• Check websites of international companies that recruit worldwide (e.g. KPMG, HSBC, Shell, Unilever)
• Research UK employers with overseas offices.

China:

Extend your “guanxi” through joining associations like a Chinese University Alumni Association

Use online recruitment sites like

• www.chinahr.com,
• www.51job.com,
• www.yingjiesheng.com,
• www.zhaopin.com

National press like China Daily, Shanghai Star

Join social professional networking sites e.g.

• www.linkedin.com
• www.renren.com
• www.51.com

To locate graduate job and careers fairs – use www.chinajob.com, ‘careers fairs’

Use China “country profiles” section on Prospects as part of your research and International graduate jobs

India

Online recruitment sites:

• www.careerindia.com;
• www.monsterindia.com

Join social / professional networks sites

• www.brijj.com
• www.linkedin.com

Global sites worth checking:

• www.ecademy.com;
• www.spoke.com;
• www.justlanded.com

National / business press – The Asian Age, Times of India, Business week

To locate graduate job and careers fairs:

• www.afairs.com;
• www.indobase.com, ‘careers fairs’

Use India “country profiles” section on Prospects as part of your research and International graduate jobs

Malaysia

UK/Malaysia GradLink website(www.uwe.ac.uk/malaysia-gradlink), aimed at connecting Malaysian students studying across the UK with opportunities in Malaysia.

Recruitment websites – other countries/emerging markets

Nigeria

• www.alljobsnigeria.com
• www.businessdayonline.com

Middle East

• www.careergate.ae/
• www.gulfjobsites.com

Thailand

• www.thairath.co.th

Hong Kong

• www.jobfinder.com.hk
• International graduate jobs on Prospects