JOB POSTING POLICY

We welcome full-time, professional roles at entry level, graduate level, and senior level, including graduate schemes and graduate placements, paid internships, part-time roles, voluntary roles with registered charities and third sector organisations, and working vacations and paid internships abroad, provided all fee and remuneration details are clear and transparent. All paid roles must pay the UK National Living Wage. We ask that all London-based paid roles pay the London Living Wage.

About the role

We reserve the right to decline job posts for reasons not outlined above, including roles which do not reflect the values of Birkbeck and of our student and graduate body. We will aim to process posts within five working days. In some instances, we may ask you to provide further information about the post before taking a decision. If it comes to our attention that any approved posts are failing to adhere to this policy, Birkbeck Careers and Enterprise Service reserves the right to delete them from the jobs board.

Responsibilities

We do not approve paid roles which pay below the UK National Living Wage/London Living Wage, or voluntary roles that are not with registered charities or third sector organisations. Posts that have incomplete, misleading, or missing job descriptions, or that do not include an address or contact details, are also not approved. Roles that are entirely commission-based, or that have a base salary lower than the UK National Living Wage/London Living Wage, are not approved. We do not approve posts from private individuals, or roles based in private households. Posts that invite students or graduates to express a general interest in the employer, rather than apply to a specific role, are not approved. Opportunities that involve unpaid work experience, self-employed or freelance work, unless meaningful opportunities are otherwise unavailable to students and graduates, are not approved. Posts that discriminate on grounds of any characteristic protected by the Equality Act 2010 are not approved, except for positive action.

Requirements

We do not approve posts from third party recruiters. However, we are happy to approve posts from recruitment agencies that want to advertise internal vacancies. Additional information on Job postings includes that posts for roles receiving funding from the Kickstart scheme will be approved, but we ask that all roles pay the UK National Living Wage/London Living Wage. Birkbeck Careers and Enterprise Service is not responsible for undertaking any pre-employment checks. Any necessary pre-employment checks for candidates sourced through Handshake are solely the responsibility of the employer. Birkbeck Careers and Enterprise Service expects all employers to adhere to GDPR regulations as outlined in the Data Protection Act 2018.