Work and training

• Different ways to work
• Understanding the job market
• Getting a job
  • Applications
  • Writing CVs
  • Interviews, presentations and selection tests
  • Looking for jobs
  • What employers are looking for
  • Keeping your job
  • Personal qualities checklist
• Training
• Your rights at work

If you are looking for jobs try:

• Purple Pages — our online vacancy database
• the O-zone — job vacancies, Apprenticeships and volunteering
• local and national newspapers
• employment agencies
• the jobcentre
• the internet
• using your personal contacts and asking your family and friends if the companies they work for are taking on any staff, and
• keeping your eyes open — small businesses often put staff wanted notices in their windows and larger organisations, like supermarkets, often have a vacancy board inside their shops.

Jobcentre Plus has Disability Employment Advisers (DEAs) who provide specialist support for disabled people who are already in work and those who are looking for work. More information is available on the Direct.gov website

For more information and help with looking for jobs see our Getting a job leaflets and lists of local employment agencies below:

 Part-time and holiday jobs
 Sources of job vacancies
 Sources of job vacancies — large print
 Employment agencies in the Amber Valley area
 Employment agencies in the Chesterfield area
 Employment agencies in the Derby area
 Employment agencies in the Erewash area
 Employment agencies in the Macclesfield area
 Employment agencies in the Stockport area