There are various jobsites if you are looking for a job in Glasgow. The most popular are s1jobs.com, STV jobs, Gumtree, ScotCareers and Jobsite. These job sites combined contain literally thousands of jobs in and around the Glasgow area. To ensure that your hunt for a new job is successful you should look to sign up for job alerts from all of these sites.

S1jobs.com is by far the most popular jobsite in Scotland. It is operated by Newsquest media who produce over 200 newspapers, magazines and trade publications including the Evening Times and Scottish Herald. S1jobs is by far the most popular job board in Scotland and boasts an impressive 30,000 visitors a day with in excess of 4,000 live jobs, many of which are located in Glasgow. S1jobs also has an impressive career guide section of the website that includes CV and interview tips. They have an easy to operate search menu that allows you to select location, core skill, specialism and keywords. The advanced search allows a lot more functionality including full time or part time, salary range and contact or permanent.

STV jobs is operated by the STV Group, which also operates the television channel broadcasting to over 4 million people across Scotland every week. The search allows you to select location, sector, salary band, hours, contract and employer type. It’s very easy to operate and at the time of writing this article had over 400 jobs available in Glasgow.

Gumtree is a unique job board that has many jobs in Glasgow, posted by small, medium and large businesses as well as individuals who require work to be complete. Gumtree has 100’s of jobs in Glasgow and surrounding areas, for a massive variety of skillsets. From tradesmen to babysitters to IT specialists, it’s a very unique site that must be checked on a regular basis if you are trying to find a job.

ScotCareers are run by Trinity Mirror Digital Recruitment, they operate many other job sites including fish4jobs, JobSearch, Hot Recruit and Planet Recruit. It’s part of Trinity Mirror plc, which is one of the UK’s largest newspaper publishers. The career advice section is arguably the best from the 5 websites that I’ve mentioned. It includes tips for interviews and writing CVs and various other useful pages with information.

Jobsite is another massive job board with 1000’s of jobs across Scotland. They are operated by A&N Media which produces the Daily Mail and Metro newspapers. The website has vastly improved in recent times and has been subject to massive investment from its owners. They have also had a very successful television campaign with starring Max Beesley. We fully expect them to be one of the major players for online recruitment in 2012.

If you are serious about finding a job then submitting your CV to these sites and signing up for the daily job alerts is imperative to finding employment. These sites cover 90% of the jobs advertised in and around Glasgow.