The strategy, or strategies, that you will need to utilise in order to find a suitable job in your chosen field, will depend on the area that you want to get into. Research into the area, or advice from a careers advisor or someone within the industry, will clarify which approaches you might want to use. These allow you to search for jobs according to certain criteria, e.g. companies that are offering graduate training in marketing.
Databases are available at careers libraries and, increasingly, on the Internet.
Job advertisements Jobs can be advertised in local, regional, national or specialist press, as well as in graduate-specific journals. Graduate jobs tend to be in national or specialist newspapers or graduate journals, rather than in local or regional newspapers, although it is sometimes possible to find graduate jobs in local newspapers. Although job advertisements may seem the most obvious place to look for work, it is important to remember that many vacancies are not advertised, and worth bearing other job-seeking strategies in mind. Speculative approaches This is writing to a company with your CV in the hope that they have an appropriate opening. If you do this, you will probably have to send many CVs for relatively little feedback.