Find a job or further study

MyCareer's opportunities pages will help you find vacancies relevant to you. With thousands of jobs on offer every year from hundreds of local, national and international employers, our service will help you identify the right role for you.

If you want to search for on-campus jobs, visit our Jobs on campus page. Each year, during Welcome Week, we also host a part-time jobs fair. Come along and talk to local companies who have exciting part-time jobs on offer.

Graduate jobs

We advertise a wide range of roles with local, national and international organisations on MyCareer. 

You may also wish to use the job sites below to search for vacancies, or to sign up for job alerts. 

• TARGETjobs
• Indeed
• Reed
• Prospects
• Milkround
• GradSouthWest

Visit our resource library to read our Guide to Finding Graduate Jobs and Opportunities, which can also help you get started in your job hunt.

There are specific organisations that support diversity in the graduate job market and help people from diverse backgrounds to find graduate jobs; a good example is Diverse Hires.

Graduate schemes

Graduate schemes are jobs designed specifically for recent graduates, of any discipline, that focus on learning and development – some will also include additional professional qualifications funded by the employer.

Most graduate schemes offer attractive salaries and benefits, so they can be competitive. There's often a lengthy application process involved, including psychometric tests and assessment centres, and deadlines are usually before Christmas for schemes starting the following summer. It's important to research, plan ahead and allow plenty of time to produce a strong, high quality application.

Visit our Resources page to read more in our Guide to Graduate Schemes. 

Unsure what role might interest you?

You can search for vacancies on MyCareer, drop into the Careers Space in Commons (opposite Costa) to speak to us in person, or check out our Resources page, where you can find guides on: 

• What are my graduate options?
• How do I make career decisions?
• Guide to Career Direction.

If you’re an international student, we encourage you to access support through the Job Shop. We recommend that you don't work more than 15 hours per week, in order to keep up with your studies – and you must adhere to the working restrictions placed on you by your visa (usually 20 hours per week during term time).

To work in the UK, you'll need to apply for a National Insurance (NI) number. 

Please visit our Resources page for further information on working while you study, sample CVs and more. 

For legal reasons we're not allowed to give you advice on your visa – if you're unsure whether you can legally work in the UK and how many hours you can work, please contact the Visas and Immigration team.

Deciding what you'd like to do and where you'd like to go after graduation can be a big decision. We have the following guides in our Resource library to help with the process:

• Guide to Finding Work in Your Home Country After Graduation
• Guide to Finding Work in the UK as an International Graduate

You can find information on visas for graduates on the UK government website.

Student Circus is a free job-searching and advisory website available to Bath Spa University students and graduates. It lists visa-sponsored jobs in the UK as well as opportunities in your home country.

On our Resources page, you can find our:

• Guide to Disability and Work
• Guide to Equality and Diversity and Work.

You may also want to check the additional resources below.

• Change 100 – Summer Internships for students/graduates with a disability
• Visual impairment? Check out the careers resources, support and assessment centre training on offer from Blind in Business
• Leaving university? Contact the National Autistic Society's Transition Support Service 
• Finding Work e-book – National Autistic Society

Our Resources page includes a number of how-to guides and sample documents to help you with any stage of your career search. They cover such topics as: 

• CVs and job applications
• International students and graduates
• Industry sector guides
• Students with disability

We outline a good way to start looking for a postgraduate degree in our resource library, but you might also want to check other resources on the web such as Find a Masters, Find a PhD and jobs.ac.uk.

Our Guide to Postgraduate Study: Applications, Interviews and Funding may be helpful as you put together your application.

We can offer feedback on your personal statement via our ask a question service on MyCareer, or you can book an appointment with one of our coaches.

You can read the Alternative Guide to Postgraduate Funding, a searchable database of funding open to Bath Spa University students. To use this resource, choose option 1 to ‘register for a username and password’ using your full BSU email address.

Many Bath Spa graduates choose to train as a teacher after their undergraduate course. Teaching can be a rewarding and fulfilling career choice with various opportunities for progression and development. 

Most people have heard of PGCEs, but there are actually multiple training routes available including school-based routes and graduate schemes. It is important to have recent school-based work experience, to be prepared to take numeracy and literacy tests and to apply as early as possible in the academic year prior to commencing your training, as places on certain routes are limited.

Guides for teacher training according to subject (Primary and Secondary, Early Years, Higher Education and TESOL) are also available in our Resource library.