Britain’s occupations: the winners and losers over the past decade
April 23, 2010 by admin
Filed under Career News and Advice
Typists, bookbinders and sewing machinists are among the losers as the economy
modernises - and as the state grows.
By Alex Singleton
Published: 1:19PM BST 22 Apr 2010
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An trade in decline: a metalworker labouring at a ship builder
The manufacturing sector has been particularly hit by job losses. Electrical
product assemblers have suffered biggest decline - a cut of 69pc since 2001.
Quality assurance technicians, a vital part of ensuring the reliability of
manufactured goods, have fallen by 40pc, while metal machine setters are
down 57pc.
The figures, which were revealed
in a report by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES),
a Government-funded body, also show that many state-funded occupations have
enjoyed substantial growth since 2001. Conservation and environmental
protection officers have increased by 124pc and paramedics by 114pc. The
number of town planners, youth and community workers and social service
managers have also substantially risen.
But despite job losses in many traditional trades, the report says that the
manufacturing sector continues to suffer from the economy’s “pervasive”
and worsening skills gap, with one in five manufacturers having to make do
with inadequately skilled workers.
It warns that while low-skilled jobs offer an important way for some workers
to enter the labour force, these workers “will be in need of upskilling
… to meet changes in consumer demand”. The electricity, gas and water
sector suffers the biggest skill gaps, with …
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