Graduate job sites, compared

No board on this page tells you whether an employer can sponsor a visa. That check is separate from the advert, and it is made on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors, which lists the employers holding a licence.

Make it part of saving a role rather than part of applying: look the employer up when you add it to your list, and note what you find beside the closing date.

It takes a minute, and it keeps a week of work from going to an employer who cannot make you an offer you can accept.

There are no scores here and no order of merit. The boards are listed alphabetically within each table, and every description comes from what the board says about itself, read on 7 October 2026.

If you are still studying, the first question matters more than the third. A board strong on schemes and internships is the one to read in October, when most of the season’s deadlines are still ahead of you.

The second question decides more than it looks. Some boards serve every degree; one serves only STEM students; some work through your university’s careers service, and one belongs to your university alone.

A board built for a group you are not in will still show you adverts, but the ones it is proudest of will not be yours.

Milkround names its operator on its about page, the Stepstone Group UK. Prospects, part of Jisc, invites you to search graduate jobs, schemes, internships, work experience and apprenticeships from a huge range of employers.

TargetJobs describes itself as a careers platform for students and graduates, with jobs, schemes, internships and work experience across 22 sectors, alongside postgraduate study.

Bright Network’s employer site says it was built to help young people from every background into careers. LinkedIn’s help pages show its graduate use instead, with filters for experience level and for job type, including internships.

Where a board’s own page is silent on something, the table above leaves the gap rather than filling it with a guess, which is why some rows say less than others.

LSE describes CareerHub as the place to reach nearly all of its careers resources, with an exclusive jobs board of hundreds of opportunities. Other universities run something similar under another name, and the roles on it were sent to that service by employers who wanted its students.

That makes it the one board where you are not competing with every graduate in the country. Check it on the same day each week, and ask the careers service how long your log-in lasts after you graduate, because the answer varies by university.

Most employers with formal graduate programmes open for applications in September and October, targetjobs notes, so autumn alerts fill with schemes.

Set one alert per board, by sector and city, and read them on a fixed day each week. More boards mostly means the same adverts, seen twice, and more time sorting than applying.

On LinkedIn, save one search for each of your sectors and cities, so the filters do the narrowing before you read anything. Fewer sources, read closely, leave more of the week for applications, which is the part of the hunt that actually moves.