- Select a Job
- Skills For Jobs Intro
- Administrative and Clerical Occupations
- Business and Public Service Associate Professionals
- Business and Public Service Professionals
- Caring Personal Service Occupations
- Corporate Managers
- Culture Media Sport Occupations
- Customer Service Occupations
- Health and Social Welfare Associate Professionals
- Health Professionals
- Managers and Proprietors In Agriculture and Services
- Protective Service Occupations
- Sales Occupations
- Science and Technology Professionals
- Science and Technology Associate Professionals
- Skilled Agricultural Trades
- Teaching and Research Professionals
Introduction
This is a practical guide to job and learning opportunities in the Greater Manchester Area. It will help you understand the skills that are in demand by employers and therefore what skills you need to: - apply for jobs in the growing industries The guide will also:- - Provide details of the Greater Manchester Labour Market
- help you move up the ladder
- become a more active volunteers
- Identify which are the growing industries
- What types of jobs will be needed and the skills required to do them
- Help you to find courses which will enable you to update or learn new skills
- Help you find other sources of careers advice
- Provide links to other useful sites.
A wide range of opportunities
There are jobs requiring a very wide spectrum of skills, abilities and sometimes qualifications. Usually, employers are looking for people who are enthusiastic, committed and reliable, so your personal skills are at least as important as formal qualifications. The best way perhaps of making yourself attractive to employers is to ensure you have a mix of skills and ability in order to do the job as well as possible. This means you have to think hard about the job you would like and start to select the type of learning and training that you might need to complete in order to get that job.
Skills
We have tried very hard not to use jargon within this guide. We hope that as a result of using it you become more aware of the skills you have and what "skills" actually mean in practical terms i.e. what sort of tasks you might have to undertake. You will therefore see many references to different types of skills which are explained for you e.g. key skills, transferable skills, generic skills and basic skills. Once you understand the difference between these types of skill you will probably start to appreciate just how many skills you have and how they might be useful to you.
Jobs that are most difficult to fill for employers
We have selected just over 20 occupations that are likely to be of most importance to employers in this area over the coming years. In fact, the jobs we have chosen are those that employers find most difficult to fill. As such if you feel you have the interest, ability or desire to get into these areas of work, the chances are that there will be more job opportunities for you in the next ten years. Where possible we have suggested the number of jobs likely to be available for each area, and you will notice that certain types of business struggle more than others to fill the jobs they have. Also, some businesses or organisations think that people working for them sometimes have gaps in their knowledge, skills or ability, so there is an increasing need for able workers or volunteers.