UK Career Guides

Practical guidance on finding work in the UK, written to be used rather than skimmed. Every guide here is about a decision you actually have to make: what to say in the room, what to put on the page, and what to do when it is not going well.

Looking for what a job pays rather than how to get it? Our UK salaries hub collects the pay guides and our own monthly analysis of advertised vacancies.

Interviews

What UK employers ask, what they are listening for, and how to prepare for the questions that decide it.

CVs, cover letters and applications

Getting past the first filter, and what to do after you have applied.

Searching for work

Where to look, how recruiters and agencies actually operate, and how to spot an advert that is wasting your time.

Getting in without experience

Routes in when you do not yet have the experience employers say they want.

Changing career

Moving sector or starting again later, and what transfers with you.

Careers by sector

What particular jobs involve, what they pay and how people get into them.

The UK job market

Which sectors are hiring, which skills employers are asking for, and what is changing.

Remote and flexible work

Your rights and your paperwork

Contracts, payslips and what you are entitled to.

Visas and sponsorship

Working in the UK on a sponsored route. Immigration rules change often, so check anything here against current Home Office guidance before acting on it.

If something here is out of date or wrong, tell us and we will check it. How we research and correct our guides is set out in About and Editorial Standards.