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Employment and Skill Requirements for the Future: What Employers Want Local and National Growth Sectors. Julie A Kenny CBE, DL Managing Director, Pyronix Ltd Commissioner, UK Commission for Employment and Skills 27 th June 2011. Fastest growing occupations: 2001-2009.
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Employment and Skill Requirements for the Future: What Employers WantLocal and National Growth Sectors Julie A Kenny CBE, DL Managing Director, Pyronix Ltd Commissioner, UK Commission for Employment and Skills 27th June 2011
Fastest growing occupations:2001-2009 • Conservation & environmental protection officers • Paramedics • Legal associate professionals • Refuse and salvage occupations • Leisure and theme park attendants • Town planners • Educational assistants • Driving instructors • Registrars & senior education administrators • Purchasing managers • Psychologists • Undertakers and mortuary assistants • Beauticians and related occupations
Fastest declining occupations: 2001-2009 • Assemblers (electrical products) • Collector salespersons and credit agents • Assemblers (vehicles and metal goods) • Typists • Bookbinders and print finishers • Metal making and treating process operatives • Metal machine setter and setter-operators • Telephonists • Precious instrument makers and repairers • Sewing machinists • Tool makers, tool fitters and markers-out • Printing machine minders and assistants • Telephone salespersons • Rounds(wo)men and van salespersons
Priority Sectors: Yorkshire and the Humber Sectors that will create the most jobs: • Business services • Health and social care • Retailing • Construction • Wholesaling ‘Economic driver’ sectors: • Advanced Manufacturing • Composites • Low Carbon • Carbon Capture • Nuclear • Offshore Wind
What skills do employers look for? Personal skills Basic skills
www.ukces.org.uk • Julie A Kenny CBE, DL • Managing Director, Pyronix Ltd • Commissioner, UK Commission forEmployment and Skills • 27th June 2011