A-Z INDUSTRY SECTOR GUIDES
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Actuarial
If you are interested in economics and business, and you are highly skilled in maths and statistics, this job could be ideal for you. Actuaries use mathematics, statistics and...
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Banking, accountancy and financial management
Finance, accountancy and financial services offer a breadth of career opportunities for people who are keen to work in a successful and global marketplace. Encompassing seven...
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Business Intelligence
Business intelligence is becoming an important strategic tool for business management. Business intelligence software offerings can help companies gain insight into their...
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Civil and structural engineering
Civil engineering is concerned with creating, improving and protecting the environment in which we live. It provides the facilities for day-to-day life and for transport and...
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Construction and building services
The construction industry is huge, covering housing development, institutional public buildings such as schools and hospitals, commercial buildings and industrial plants or...
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Creative Industries
The creative industries are vital to the UK's economic success, as well as to the quality of our society and our lives. In terms of Gross Value Added, they account for over 5.6...
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Criminal Justice System
The criminal justice system is complex because it requires many different types of professionals in order to prevent crime, find criminals, prosecute criminals, detain...
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Engineering
The engineering sector is huge. The Engineering Employers Federation (EEF) is more than 6,000 member firms strong. There are an estimated 800,000 engineers in a sector...
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Environmental and Landbased Industries
0f the million people employed in this sector, the majority work in 17 main industries. Almost 95% of all businesses in the environmental and land-based industries employ less...
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Healthcare
The health sector is made up of hospitals, doctors’ surgeries, dental practices, the ambulance service, nursing homes, residential care homes, complementary medicine and a huge...
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Hospitality, leisure and tourism
The hospitality, leisure and tourism sector covers a broad area and includes the management of restaurants, bars, sports clubs and various roles within the travel and tourism...
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HR and recruitment
Once a business or organisation reaches a certain size, its infrastructure will often include a Human Resources (HR) department. Formerly known as Personnel, this department is...
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IT and technology
Information technology is one of the newest industries and is still evolving at a rapid rate. There are many different IT careers - it has been said that there are as many as...
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Law and legal services
The Law and Legal services sector covers a wide range of professions, ranging from the judiciary, solicitors and barristers, to mediators and arbitrators. It also includes...
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Marketing, advertising and PR
Marketing covers every aspect of promoting and selling a product or service in the marketplace: market research; establishing a price; creating packaging that sells; devising...
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Martime Industries
In the UK over 90% of all international trade is carried in nearly one hundred thousand ocean-going vessels, from massive bulk cargo ships to the smallest sea-canal barge....
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Media, journalism and publishing
Publishing is made up of many different sub‐sectors, including: books; journals (including electronic journals); newspapers; news agencies; magazines and business media;...
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Public Sector
Many people who feel they want to 'make a difference' opt to work in the public sector. Doing so means that you are employed, directly or indirectly, by the government and your...
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Quantity surveying and building surveying
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Retail, buying and merchandising
The Retail sector is big business with so many facets to it and with many companies also trading globally and online as well, there are so many different career avenues to...
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Science and Pharmaceutical
During the past two decades, the science & pharmaceutical industry has brought a new wave of medicines to market that act on the central nervous system, offer treatment for...
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Teaching and education
Teaching is an important and increasingly popular choice of career for all kinds of people.
Whatever your circumstances; if you're about to graduate, or looking for a...
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Transport and Logistics
In the UK, Transport and Logistics remains a fast growing industry. It covers a range of transport areas and accounts for around 15% of all employment in the country. Employers...
