• Local Government Jobs (Scotland Only)
• Scotsman Jobs
• Jobcentre Plus (DirectGov)
• Scottish Government Jobs
• Hays Recruitment
• Total Jobs
• Twitter Jobs
• Jobsite UK
• Monster Jobs
• Indeed Jobs
• Carillion
• JobsInScotland

You might find that the same vacancies are advertised on multiple sites but the more you check the better, just in case there are vacancies that are not duplicated. However, its probably not worthwhile checking both the Scotsman and Jobsite UK as the Scotsman’s site is powered by Jobsite UK database.

Jobcentre Plus

Don’t think that the Jobcentre Plus site will be good because it’s a government site… less than 30% of jobs that are advertised, are on Jobcentre Plus at DirectGov (many jobs are never advertised at all).

The search function on the Jobcentre Plus site is particularly bad because it truncates (or extends) the results of searches to 100 vacancies no matter how wide or narrow the search. Whether you search for vacancies in Tobermory or London, there are always exactly 100 vacancies and they’re not neccessarily in the location you searched for.

Jobcentre Plus often get the specifics of the job description wrong too, a recently advertised vacancy by the company Balfour Beatty used the term “generous package” to describe the salary offered on their Website, whilst on the Jobcentre Plus site, it described the same position’s salary as “meets statutory minimum wage”.

Occasionally I was able to stretch my creative side on something more aesthetically pleasing like this scenic driving route page .

Because the content management system the council used was quite old, I had to use external resources at times to compensate for a lack of functionality. A good example of this was having to use Google maps to show the route for the scenic driving page and having to use Panaramio to show photographs of the views someone would expect to see when making the trip (and where they were taken). Our GIS was never good enough to do this.

As a Web publisher for the council I was part of a small team of people who were responsible for the council being given the Plain English Campaign Web Award in 2005. I hope that the standard of the council’s Website and the content don’t suffer when the coming local government cut-backs start to take effect.