Where to look for job adverts?

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This sounds like a silly question.... But up until now I have been in a vocational career (as a health care professional) and have therefore had an obvious place to look for jobs.

I'm now coming back after maternity leave and am looking for a part time more general type job that fits in more easily with my two small children. Ideally something working from home, or very local to me. I'm not really sure what, but feel I have a number of transferable skills that I could apply to a variety of different roles and would consider different options, but would ideally like it to be something that recognises I'm professional,degree educated etc and is financially worth doing once I've paid for childcare.

My question is where do I even start looking for this kind of role?! Where are generic, professional type jobs advertised? I feel like I'm just stabbing in the dark doing vague internet searches. Is there a particular search tool I should use? I'd know exactly where to search if looking for a job within my profession, but I know there must be all sorts of jobs out there that aren't vocational, I just don't know where to find them!

For flexible, professional and ok paid, the public sector and charities are your friends. Maybe try looking at the jobs board on your local authority website (and the neighbouring authorities).

Indeed.co.uk pulls in ads from lots of sites but not all.

First thing that I would suggest is avoiding applications in the first instance.

Register with temp agencies (Reed, office angels, real staffing, capita etc) who will have a wide range of roles in different sectors. It's a great way to boost your cv, gain experience and references and in a number of cases a back door into a job. It also gives you a chance to suss out the place and ease back into working without the dispiriting sense of rejection if permanent jobs are scarce.

Good luck

I think you're in search of the golden egg there.

As suggested above, look at the Indeed website.

Private sector is not as attractive as public sector and the NHS in terms of part-time and flexible.