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• Finding A Job
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Finding a job

You spend many hours of every day in work, so you need to be in the right job. The job is right for you when, it’s located in an accessible place where you can afford the travel and the job pays you fairly for the work you do. You also need continuous job satisfaction, a sense of achievement in what you do.

A work place should be a good environment, where your skills are recognised and appreciated, you relate to reasonable colleagues and work in unison to produce agreed results.

If you’re searching for work in Belfast or want to change jobs, there are statutory and private information and advice sources which can assist your search.

You can visit seven Job Centres across Belfast for information on vacancies and training programmes.

There are many recruitment agencies in Belfast, with some specialising in professional, technical or industrial vacancies.

The job pages in newspapers are published on Thursday and Friday. Advertisements relate to vacancies in Belfast, Northern Ireland and sometimes include elsewhere in Ireland and Europe.

Employers and recruitment agencies often advertise job vacancies on web sites. These web sites categorise job vacancies. You can search according to geographical location or city and job categories.

The Department for Education and Learning for Northern Ireland publishes useful guides in several languages for job seekers.