The recession has left young people in the UK with fewer employment choices, less financial support and the need to work harder, smarter and be more inventive when they hit the job market. But the recession needs to lift at some stage, so what does the future hold for the UK employment sector?
The General Secretary of the UK Trade Union Congress (TUC), Brendan Barber commented on the latest employment data and said, “Economists may argue about whether we are now out of recession and into recovery, but in the real world of Britain’s workplaces people are still losing their jobs and finding it harder and harder to get new ones”.
Barber is urging the UK government to do something about the employment situation and provide help for jobseekers before the unemployment costs are too great. “Youth unemployment is now at its highest rate for 15 years. And it will get far worse when millions of fresh school leavers and graduates start looking for work in the coming weeks. Unemployment leaves a permanent scar on young people’s lives and Government must do all it can to stop joblessness blighting another generation’s lives,” he said.
The Trade Union Congress predicts that unemployment levels will rise above 3 million next year, although the claimant unemployment count is not rising as rapidly as expected. Certain UK sectors are also expected to do better for employment than others.
Careers expected to flourish:
Unsurprisingly, the employment sectors which are set to flourish in the UK are directly related to technological advances, particularly in the area of disease and genetic research, as well as medicine and computing. Traditional ‘recession safe’ jobs such as teaching, policing and care work will also continue to be in high demand. The following contract and permanent employment positions in the UK are expected do well in the next five to ten years.
IT contractor jobs including:
• Data communications analysts
• Software Engineers
• Computer systems and network administrators
• Database administrators
Healthcare jobs including:
• Physician assistants
• Physical therapists
• Dental hygienists
• Forensic science technician
• Registered nurse
Scientific jobs including:
• Biotechnologists
• Tissue engineers
• Gene programmers
• Nanotechnologists
Other jobs including:
• Preschool teaching
• Hairdressing
• Paralegal and legal assistant jobs
• Care work
• Counselling
• Police
Careers expected to decline:
It is expected that technological advances will also succeed in pushing out more ‘old fashioned’ jobs including typesetting and print positions and secretarial positions as many tasks are now more easily performed on a PC. Outsourcing for lower human resource costs has also brought about a decline in certain employment sectors in the UK such as programming, call centres and data entry.
History tells us that the recession will lift and UK employment will regain its footing. Europe was decimated by the end of the Second World War but clever business and government growth schemes succeeded in making Western Europe the success story of the 20th century. The recession has changed the way we see and do things which can only mean that we will rise from the flames again. We simply need to recession proof our jobs for the future and look where the areas of UK employment and economic growth lie.
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