NEW JOBS IN MONEY - NOT MACHINES
Banking and business services will replace the manufacturing sector as the main employment sector in South Yorkshire - according to a report released by the Centre For Full Employment (CFFE).
Using data from a range of sources, CFFE’s Labour Market Survey sets out predictions for new trends in employment up to 2010. The findings of the report are to be used to help to realise the ‘Full Employment Sheffield’ project - founded by CFFE, the European Social Fund (ESF), and Yorkshire Forward, which aims to reduce unemployment levels in the city as a way of tackling social exclusion.
Amongst the trends highlighted in the report are:
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more jobs to be created in the Health and Social Care sector
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a shortage of skills in the transport sector due to restrictions on lower age limits for joining the workforce
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a greater number of jobs made available through employee retirement
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high numbers of hard-to-fill vacancies in the manufacturing sector, caused by fears of decline in the industry
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population changes mean that there may even be a shortage of people available to fill jobs by 2010.
In many employment sectors technology has been identified as having a significant impact upon working practices, for example, changes in equipment and the way food is manufactured have meant that whilst demand for some skills has declined, there are a greater number of opportunities for more specialist and skilled roles such as food technicians and engineers.
John Wilkinson of CFFE said: “CFFE is an active campaigning and delivery body which seeks to bring about a reduction in the levels of unemployment in Sheffield, as a way of addressing a number of wider social issues.
“The findings of the Labour Market Survey are a key indicator of how trends in all employment sectors are likely to develop up to 2010 in South Yorkshire. They provide important information for our network of job brokering agencies, Jobnet, and inform CFFE training programmes, which form part of the Full Employment Sheffield project. This aims to assist nearly 3000 people back to work”
The report details employment trends across all sectors, highlighting specific patterns and characteristics in the labour market, including predictions for the numbers of newly created employment opportunities, the numbers of vacancies which are categorised as being hard-to-fill, and levels of staff turnover.
