A wide range of online tools is available to help you find current job vacancies. While some are specific to particular sectors, others are more general.
For more detailed information and resources on starting a career with geography in a diverse range of sectors, visit our choose a career with geography pages.
The websites listed on this page are a selection of sites we found useful. Other sites are available. The Society is not responsible for the content of external sites.
General
The following websites may be helpful to search the wider job market, where your transferable geographical skills can be applied.
- Adzuna - a comprehensive list of vacancies in the UK including jobs from many of the sources listed above.
- Graduate Recruitment Bureau - advice, student and graduate jobs and internships in the UK.
- Indeed - links to extensive list of jobs in the UK.
- Research Job Finder - jobs in various different aspects of research in the UK and abroad.
- Save the Student - graduate jobs collated from other job sites.
- Target Jobs - lists a wide variety of jobs covering all areas - use the search tool to narrow your job hunt to an area which interests you.
- WhatJobs - a UK-wide job search site, providing users with the most current job vacancies with 100,000+ new vacancies added weekly.
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Environment and sustainability
- Acre - comprehensive range of jobs in the energy, environment and sustainability sector, mostly in the UK and Europe.
- Conservation Jobs - for conservation careers in the UK and worldwide.
- Countryside Jobs - UK-based positions in countryside management and conservation.
- ENDS job search - jobs in environmental, ecology, conservation, wind energy and sustainability, mainly in the UK.
- Environment Job - a range of environmentally related vacancies in the UK and abroad.
- Env.Careers - advice on building an environmental career as well as global job listings.
- Green Jobs - a listing of ‘green jobs’ in the UK ranging from environmental consultants to natural resource management, including specific sites for renewable energy jobs, solar jobs, water jobs and wind jobs.
- Guardian Jobs: environment, green and sustainable - a selection of environmentally related positions in the UK.
- Lantra - land-based and environmental sector opportunities in the UK
- Environment Jobs - a wide range of 'green jobs' in the UK and abroad.
- Novoresume - US-focused guide to 'green careers'.
Geographical techniques, physical systems and settlement
- Earthworks Jobs - mainly physical geography and geomorphology jobs across sectors, in the UK and abroad.
- GIS Jobs - a variety of GIS jobs in different sectors, mostly in the UK.
- Planning Jobs - positions in town planning throughout the UK.
- Transport Planning Society - vacancies in transport including planning, modelling and management, mainly in the UK.
Development, global issues, society and business
- Association of American Geographers - mostly academic positions in the USA, with some jobs based elsewhere and in other sectors.
- CharityJob - jobs in organisations across the third sector, mostly in UK-based charities.
- Civil Service - jobs at governmental organisations or departments such as the Department for International Development, Department of Energy and Climate Change, and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
- Chartered Insurance Institute - information about careers in the risk and insurance industry, plus jobs, graduate and apprenticeship schemes based in the UK.
- IDEX Consulting - positions including risk and catastrophe modelling and analysis in the UK insurance industry.
- Jobs.ac.uk - jobs in academic, science, research and administrative employment in the UK and abroad.
- Marketing Week - sales and marketing jobs in the UK.
- TES - teaching positions in geography in the UK and abroad
- United Nations - international positions at the UN, including internships and volunteering opportunities.