Embodying Sheffield’s industrial past, Krantech manufacture complex structures for clients in the oil and gas sector among others. When the company was looking to recruit more young people Paul Wright, one of the directors, took advantage of Skills Made Easy, …
This is our weekly One Minute Monday - our guide to a single fact or stat on employment and skills that you can take in in sixty seconds or less. Our One Minute Monday posts are drawn from our own research …
Monday morning means One Minute Monday – in which we explain a single fact on skills or employment in 60 seconds flat. Overall unemployment is falling year on year and did not rise as dramatically as expected during the recession. …
One Minute Monday - your weekly stat shot to get your mind ticking in less than a minute. We outline a key statistic about the world of employment and training in sixty seconds. Our definition of a "skills gap" is where …
Imagine you’re buying a house, what would you do? You'd fire up your laptop, search for ‘estate agent’, and put your cursor on the first house you see, before gladly handing over your hard earned cash. Wouldn't you? No, of …
Is a ‘career’ a string of jobs which we retrospectively say were all part of a masterplan? I don’t think so, certainly not for most of us. For me, the key element which makes a string of jobs a career …
I’d like to paint you a picture. Think about the days of small, traditional shops on our high street – where you couldn’t get everything you needed from one place, and would go to each separate butcher, baker and candlestick …
From Devo Manc to the Sheffield city deal to the Northern Powerhouse, there’s a buzz around city-level devolution. For those of us working on skills and employment, one of the most exciting elements of this is the possibility of linking local …
The UK Commission for Employment and Skills' new Sector Labour Market Intelligence report reviews the current and future challenges in Health and Social Care. This is the largest sector in the UK, generating over £30 billion towards the UK’s GDP …
I’ve been reading UKCES’s new report on future job and skill needs in the energy sector and thinking on what it reveals about this economically vital industry. Skills development challenges are often be unique to a sector, or even a …
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