If you graduated a while ago and are now looking for a new career challenge, then consider what local government can offer you. During your career so far, you will have gained really useful transferable skills such as communication, organisation, project management and others, which you would be able to apply to a career in local government.

If you graduated within the last three years, you may be interested in the national graduate development programme (ngdp) for local government. Find out more about the ngdp at www.ngdp.co.uk.

You can also contact local councils directly to find out about individual council-run graduate trainee schemes. Use the ‘meet the employers‘ section of this site to access all local council websites.

If you graduated less recently, you may find you are now not necessarily eligible for specific management trainee schemes in local government. However, you are likely to be very well qualified for a whole host of local government jobs. Use our jobs website www.LGjobs.com to search for current live vacancies in local councils.