Vacancy advertising policy
The MLP, Careers & Employability Division aims to advertise all vacancies and voluntary opportunities it receives with a high level of efficiency and accuracy.
For advice on how to reach our students and graduates most effectively, contact us.
We ask that you:
- Provide complete and accurate information concerning the vacancy.
- Identify a website or contact where candidates can learn more about the vacancy.
- Provide us with as much notice as possible prior to your closing date.
- Ensure all vacancies meet current employment and equal opportunities legislation.
The Division reserves the right to edit vacancy adverts for purposes of:
- Brevity and clarity.
- Equal opportunities legislation, where the Division has a legal responsibility not to advertise vacancies which may be construed as discriminatory. The Division may contact advertising organisations, where appropriate, to clarify wording and details of adverts, or to obtain reassurance of exemptions from equal opportunities legislation.
In its duty of care to our students, we reserve the right not to advertise vacancies or voluntary opportunities which we reasonably believe not to be in the best interests of our students and graduates. In particular, vacancies which:
- Are placed by private individuals, particularly where the role provides care for others.
- Discriminate against candidates on the basis of sex, race, disability, religion, sexual orientation or age, or other equal opportunities legislation.
- Promote or endorse illegal activity.
- Do not pay the legal minimum wage (except for voluntary opportunities with a registered charity, not-for-profit organisation, or community group, or an opportunity deemed to be 'work shadowing').
- Pay on a commission-only basis.
- Pay 'in kind' rather than being salaried, e.g. gig tickets, vouchers, CDs, meals
- Require an up-front financial investment by the student/graduate, e.g. franchises
- Are connected with a 'pyramid' (or similar style) selling scheme.
- Represent an undue health and/or safety risk to the student.
- Are connected to the adult/sex industry, or are associated with adult content.
- Involve students writing or sharing academic related material for use by other students.
- Are placed on behalf of tobacco companies.
- Have company information which is incomplete.
- Have misleading, incomplete or inaccurate job descriptions.
- Do not include an address or landline contact telephone number.
The University accepts no liability for the actions of students or graduates recruited from The University of Manchester.