Finding a job

A to Z

• Become an apprentice
• Career skills and training
• Checks employers can make on job applicants
• Contact Jobcentre Plus
• Criminal record checks when you apply for a role
• Documents you need for a criminal record check
• Employment rights and pay for interns
• Ex-offenders and employment
• Find a job with Universal Jobmatch
• Find a traineeship
• Find an apprenticeship
• Find an internship
• Get help at work if you’re disabled or have a health condition (Access to Work)
• Help with moving from benefits to work
• In Work Credit
• Job Grant
• Job offers: your rights
• Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA)
• Looking for work if you're disabled
• New Enterprise Allowance
• References: workers' rights
• Register for alerts about careers in international organisations
• Report a problem about a criminal record check or barring decision
• Request a copy of your criminal record
• Return to Work Credit
• Volunteer placements, rights and expenses
• Work Choice
• Your rights and safety when looking for a job

Detailed guidance

• Apprenticeships
• Government graduate schemes
• Military recruitment, training and operations
• Secondments with government

Working, jobs and pensions

A to Z

• Armed forces

  Includes reserve forces and armed forces pensions, benefits and financial assistance.

• Finding a job

  Job search, Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA), volunteering, apprenticeships and job offers

• Holidays, time off, sick leave, maternity and paternity leave

  Includes career breaks and the holiday entitlement calculator

• Redundancies, dismissals and disciplinaries

  Includes solving a workplace dispute, calculating redundancy pay and dismissal

• State Pension

  Calculating State Pension, Pension Credit, eligibility, claiming and deferring

• Workplace and personal pensions

  Includes automatic enrolment, lost pensions and planning for retirement

• Your contract and working hours

  Includes employment status, workers' rights and changes to contracts

• Your pay, tax and the National Minimum Wage

  Includes National Minimum Wage rates, keeping pay records and pay rights

• Your rights at work and trade unions

  Includes health and safety, accidents at work and joining a trade union

All categories

• Benefits
• Births, deaths, marriages and care
• Business and self-employed
• Childcare and parenting
• Citizenship and living in the UK
• Crime, justice and the law
• Disabled people
• Driving and transport
• Education and learning
• Employing people
• Environment and countryside
• Housing and local services
• Money and tax
• Passports, travel and living abroad
• Visas and immigration
• Working, jobs and pensions