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There has been a decline in some large Employment Sectors:
•Law (drop in property sales)
•Construction (94,000 jobs to 68,000 jobs)
•Estate Agents
•Civil Service
•Public Services – No PSNI recruitment this year Fire Service recruiting Retained Officers
NI sector employment trend and forecasts to 2020 (2010 – 2020)
Business Services +30,000
Retail & distribution +11,300
Hotel & restaurant +6,200
Transport & communications +4,200
Construction +3,000
Health, Social work , Probation Services +2,800
Financial services +1,300
Agriculture, forestry & fishing - 2,100
Public administration & defence - 8,900
Education - 3,400(Source: DETI, LFS, Oxford Economics)
Vacancies include replacement as well as new positions
•Fire Service – 5000 applied for 24 positions
•Social Work – Over 1100 applications for 260 positions
•Nursing – 1793 applications for 401 QUB places
•Midwifery – 719 applications for 35 QUB places
•Bombardier – 1,600 applications for 40 places
•TESCO – 6000 applicants for a NW store
• Business and Financial Services (including accountancy, corporate recovery, financial
analysts)
• ICT (Software development skills, database development, systems management
and internet specialist skills)
• Agri Food Sector(including lab technicians, food scientists, biotech, machine operatives)
• Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering(CAD skills: CNC machine operatives; mechanical & electrical engineering skills including at technician level; strategic marketing)
Skill areas in demand
Wind Energy Dong Energy - Belfast Harbour.
Over 300 f/t jobs to be created
Offshore Wind Farms (11,000 new farms expected over next 20 years. A quarter of these expected to be within 150 nautical miles from Belfast)
Domestic Home Market
Carbon Zero Industries
The Learner’s
Entitlement
Careers Education
Employability Skills
Work Related Learning
Experiences
Careers Information
Careers Advice & Guidance
Preparing for Success – A Guide to Developing Effective Decision Makers (2009)
Curriculum Projects Mini-Enterprise Enterprise Days Mentoring Talks, Masterclasses Business Challenges
Case Studies Workplace Visits Virtual Visits Mock Interviews Work Experience Teacher Placements
In all subjects, pupils should develop their employability skills by: Promoting awareness of the range of
skills employers require
Using active learning methodologies
Promoting awareness of the transferability of skills acquired to other contexts
The range of options in education, training and employment
Job profiles Entry routes into the appropriate
potential career pathways. Labour Market Information (LMI) Software packages and web-based
resources (jed.c2kni.net)
What will I learn about?
How will this subject help
me develop my employability
skills?
How will I be
assessed?
Where might this
subject lead me in the future?
If I don’t pick this subject will
it restrict my career options
too much?
Career choices Up-to-date information for progression routes related to your subject(s)Careers Information/Employability Skills displays with
current relevant information
Work Related Learning Experiences◦ Are these incorporated into your schemes?◦ Make the connections between these experiences and
future careers/progression routes
Employability SkillsPupils have the opportunity to develop these in your
lessons.
Use of Common Assessment ActivitiesIndependent research into careers of interest
Review our responsibilities in regard to CEIAG/employability
What do I need to start
doing?
What do I need to keep
doing?What are the challenges?
Careers Service website – general LMI overview for NIwww.nidirect.gov.uk/careers
Department for Employment and Learning (DEL) – In-depth NI LMI
http://www.delni.gov.uk/index/statsandresearch.htm
Sector Skills Councils – UK wide LMIhttp://www.sscalliance.org/SectorSkillsCouncils
Office of National Statistics (ONS) – UK widehttp://www.ons.org.uk/
EURES – (European mobility portal) – Worldwidehttp://ec.europa.eu/eures/