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Job Searching and Careers- See also jobs and careers information agencies
- Age Positive - Government campaign to tackle age discrimination in the workplace
- Apprenticeships - The Learning and Skills Council provide information about apprenticeships.
- Armchair Advice - Advice and coping with redundancy
- Breaking the Barriers - Provides support for working age young people and adults who have experienced accident, injury, illness or a disability and wish to begin, maintain or return to work
- Careers A-Z (UK)
- Connexions Careers Information - a DFES site
- Courses and Careers UK - Opportunities for school and college leavers
- Department for Work and Pensions (formerly DSS)
- Direct Gov - Employment - Information from the Government about employment.
- Disability Employment Advisory Committee - DEAC is an Advisory Committee which has been established to look at employment issues for the disabled.
- Employment Opportunities - Employment Opportunities is a national charity helping people with disabilities find and retain work.
- Fifty-On - set up specifically to help over 50's find employment, re-think careers or obtain interim assignments
- Fish 4 Jobs
- Gis-a-job
- Greatcare group - for professionals seeking jobs - Nursery and childcare | Social Work and Caring | Education
- Indeed.co.uk - Search engine for jobs
- Infolinx (Jobs) - Local authority vacancies in Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland
- Job Centre Plus - Employment Services site
- Jobs in Leicester - Leicester jobs site, the latest jobs updated daily.
- LearnDirect
- Learndirect-advice.co.uk - impartial advice on courses, careers, funding and childcare
- Monster.co.uk - information on jobseeking and CV writing
- New Deal - New Deal helps people on benefits get the help and support they need to look for work, including training and job preparation.
- Next Step - Leicestershire Information, Advice and Guidance about learning and work for adults
- 'nextstep' CV builder - user friendly CV builder from 'nextstep'
- Public Jobs Direct - temporary and permanent public sector jobs
- Remploy - Remploy finds jobs for disabled people in major organisations, as well as its own manufacturing and service businesses.
- Occupations - online version of the directory from Connexions
- springboard.hobsons - a leading careers and education information service for young people aged 14–18 years.
- totaljobs - Search jobs online from top companies across the UK on totaljobs
- Work Train - national jobs, careers and learning site
- Land Registry - The Land Registry guarantees the title to, and records the ownership of, interests in registered land in England and Wales - includes contact details for the Leicester Office which covers Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland
- BBC Languages Section - Learn French, German, Italian or Spanish
- freelang.net download or access language dictionaries. The site lists translation resources, including tools for hand-held devices and free online translation software.
- FreeTranslation from SDL International, offers text and website translation in several European and Asian languages.
- Omniglot is a portal listing language and translation-related resources.
- PROMT offers a free translation tool that enables you to translate text, websites and e- mail from and into English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Russian.
- Translation site - Alta Vista - a useful translating site which can translate up to 150 words at a time
- WorldLingo provides free translation of up to 150 words for text, Web pages and e-mail covering 15 languages.
Local Studies and Family History- See also Local Media
- See also newspaper holdings in Leicestershire Libraries
National Newspapers
International Papers
Magazines
Television
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Last Updated:
11 July 2008
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