Candidate Support

On Tuesday 29 September 2026 we deployed a huge website update on myjobscotland. While we have fixed a number of issues, we are aware that some issues ...

Each organisation has full ownership over the positions they advertise on myjobscotland and their recruitment policies and procedures, including emailing ca...

If you are viewing on a mobile phone or tablet occasionally an app may place a cookie in your browser to promote a product or service using a full screen po...

COSLA and myjobscotland use the term ‘gender’ in equalities monitoring and other documents because we believe it leads to more accurate data being collected...

Job adverts remain on the system for 6 months after being unpublished. If you have submitted an application for a job and would like to access the adver...

Some organisations post their internal vacancies externally on myjobscotland, although this is not recommended.  Best practice is to access internal vac...

On each job advert you will see a button labelled "Favourite" with a star. You can click on this star to add the job to the My Favourite Jobs page...

Please log into your account on myjobscotland and visit the 'My Personal Details' section. You will then be able to change the email addres...

You now have 2 ways of registering for job alert emails with myjobscotland; Option 1: Create a Job Alert directly on from the Job Search Results T...

Job alerts can be cancelled by clicking on the “Remove this alert” link at the bottom of each alert. Alternatively, you can log into your account, ...