labour market trends

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

I.T. Food industry Healthcare Green Economy

• 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

Source: www.nationalstemcentre.org.uk

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/