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Jobseeker’s FAQ

Job seekers

  • How do I register as a job seeker?

    You can register with on our site using your email, Facebook or LinkedIn profile. Click on Register and choose Job Seeker.

  • Why do you ask for diversity information when setting up an account?

    We are committed to recruiting and retaining diverse and outstanding professionals to the full range of roles available across students’ unions / students associations and NUS. We particularly welcome and encourage applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds and women candidates. We ask that as many people as possible complete this form to help us understand the diversity of our talent pool. This information will be automatically anonymised and treated as strictly confidential. It will be used to provide statistics for monitoring purposes and to promote roles to you based on the diversity information you provide. You are not obligated in any way to complete all or any of the questions – you can either tick to skip the whole survey, or tick ‘prefer not to say’ for any individual question.

  • I don’t have time to apply now, can I save the vacancy to apply to later?

    Yes, as long as you are logged in you can save jobs by clicking ‘bookmark’ on any vacancy and the vacancy will be saved to your account to view from any device in the future.

  • The job vacancies I receive alerts for don’t suit me, how can I update my preferences?

    Easy – just login to your account and amend the job alert preferences that you have chosen.

  • How do I deactivate my account?

    You can delete your account by logging in to your ‘My Account’ area, then go to ‘Account details’ on the screen, there is a button that will delete your account. This will remove your name, email, any bookmarks and any job alerts you have setup. Data is removed from our backups after 30 days.

  • I’ve found an inappropriate job vacancy on the site, how do I report it?

    Thanks for spotting this! Please email [email protected] and we’ll investigate the issue and get it sorted quickly.

  • I would like to be alerted each time a new vacancy for a particular role comes up?

    You can set up daily or weekly job alerts direct to your inbox by registering on su.careers. If you have any questions, please contact [email protected] Contact su.careers for any issues when trying to apply for a specific vacancy contact the SU/SA directly. To do this register as a job seeker following these steps:
    1) Navigate to su.careers/who-are-you/
    2) Select the option to register as a Job Seeker.
    3) Complete the registration process
    4) You will be taken to the job alert page. Please select ‘Add alert’
    5) Set up the alert criteria based on the alerts you would like to receive. To receive alerts for vacancies containing ‘manager’ include this as a keyword.
    6) Click ‘save alert’.
    7) Your alerts will be sent to you based upon the email frequency you select for a period of 6 months.
    8) You can add or change your alert criteria at any point.

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