News - London

Hospitality

Joanne Ray 0 1526

As a career, hospitality management is in high demand worldwide and gaining a degree or experience in this field opens up doors to many exciting hospitality career opportunities with promising salaries. From managing a restaurant or hotel to organising events and catering, there are a range of hospitality careers on offer. By 2024, the hospitality industry will need to recruit 1.3 million staff. There is a high demand for graduates to go into leadership and permanent roles. Chefs are in high demand and the sector is struggling to fill these skill shortage vacancies.

Healthcare

Joanne Ray 0 1573

In the healthcare industry, you can work directly in contact with patients or in support roles which help keep the services running. The National Health Service is one of the top recruiters across all boroughs in London with Professional Occupations (Health Professionals) and Elementary Occupations (Administration and Service Occupations) dominating vacancies. Did you know that there are over 350 different careers in the NHS and around 40,000 nursing vacancies in the UK? There is a high demand for nurses and the number of new jobs in personal services (care) is growing year on year.

Digital and Creative

Joanne Ray 0 2018

In the creative industry you can work in a range of fields including photography, fashion, gaming, animation, art, dance, acting and music. The information and communication sector contain the two industries that have the largest number of jobs in creative occupations: 'Computer programming activities' and 'Computer consultancy activities. Creative roles can be highly competitive.

Gaining work experience to develop skills and building contacts can go a long a way to gain employment. Building a strong social media presence is also a great way to showcase your work. The impact of creating online profiles will also provide opportunities for individuals to network with professionals from a variety of different fields.

Demand for Jobs and Skills in “The Green Economy”

Joanne Ray 0 1673

There has been an increasing focus on the ‘green economy’ and ‘green jobs’ as governments across the world have moved to tackle climate change, and the global ‘low carbon’ economy has grown.

The Green Economy is not just about businesses and jobs that are specifically environmental; in reality, rather than there being a “green sector”, there tends to be green jobs growing within existing sectors, and even green skills being added to existing jobs.

 

RSS
12345678910Last