Vacancy policy
Graduate Jobs South works in partnership with Southampton Solent University, the University of Southampton and the University of Winchester to promote opportunities for students and graduates in the region. Southampton Solent University also promote any graduate level opportunities and placements based in the South on their Jobshop Online website.
Advertising your vacancy
Graduate Jobs South is happy to promote your opportunities but does not operate a placing service and does not guarantee responses to adverts.
Vacancies We Advertise
We can advertise the following kinds of vacancy:
- Graduate level vacancies with an immediate or future start date (full and or part-time)
- Placement schemes e.g. holiday placements and industrial year - long placements
Recruitment agencies
We do not post advertisements for students or graduates to register with an agency. Recruitment agencies may advertise a vacancy to fill at their own company on the website.
If you are a Recruitment Agency is advertising on GJS 'on behalf of a client' a fee is charged for this service. Please email graduate.jobs@solent.ac.uk for more information.
Online vacancy database
Our online vacancy database is available for employers' use free of charge but employers must register prior to use.
Please read our vacancy policy before completing our online advertise your vacancy form
We adhere to the Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services’ Equal Opportunities Policy and Best Practice in Graduate Recruitment (www.agcas.org.uk).
Vacancy Policy
To advertise a vacancy please read these terms and conditions before completing all the required fields on the online vacancy form. Please send us details of your vacancy as far in advance of the closing date as possible.
The placement of an advert with Graduate Jobs South shall be regarded as acceptance of this vacancy policy.
1. Vacancies and contact details will be advertised online. If you choose not to submit your vacancy details directly onto our database or, where this functionality is not available for your type of vacancy, please be aware that it may take up to twenty eight working days for your vacancy to be posted.
2. Access to vacancies is open to all registered users of the Website.
3. We do not handle any vacancies that, to our knowledge:
· Are commission-only based
· Involve any form of investment by the applicant
· Do not comply with the National Minimum Wage (for paid work) or any other aspect of employment or equal opportunities law
· Discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender, disability, age or sexual orientation or any other equal opportunities legislation
· Involve students undertaking academic work for other students
· Promote or involve illegal or immoral activities
· Represent an undue health and/or safety risk to the students
· Are connected to the adult/sex industry
· Have misleading, incomplete or inaccurate job descriptions
· Do not include an address or land line contact telephone number
We reserve the right to refuse, withdraw or cancel a vacancy advert without giving reason.
4. We advertise vacancies using a standard format and reserve the right to edit entries for length or content accordingly.
5. All the information you provide for the advert must be accurate, true and not misleading in any respect. It is the advertiser’s responsibility to check all information prior to submission and Graduate Jobs South accepts no liability for any errors or omissions repeated in an advert.
6. If possible, all vacancies should have a definite closing date. If no closing date is provided we will assign a period of one month from the date of posting to the Website.
7. It is the employer's responsibility to advise students and graduates on relevant insurance, tax and NI issues, to comply with all relevant employment, equal opportunities and health & safety legislation and to inform candidates of the result of an application.
8. The employer should be aware when recruiting a student currently studying of students’ study obligations (except during vacations) and should bear these in mind when negotiating hours for term-time work with students.
9. We accept no responsibility for the arrangements between the employer and the employee. Graduate Jobs South does not accept any liability for any loss or damage suffered by employers arising from, or in any way connected with, the introduction to the employer of any employee.
10. Graduate Jobs South does not accept any liability for loss, damage or inconvenience suffered by an employer or advertiser where access to the Website is suspended or lost through circumstances beyond the control of Graduate Jobs South.
Graduate Jobs South will use its reasonable endeavours to restore access to the Website as soon as possible where circumstances permit.