Administration and Human Resources

Administration and Human Resources

Their job is to make sure systems run as smoothly as possible, whether they’re overseeing billion-pound transactions or ordering stationery.

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Agriculture and Land Based Services

Agriculture and Land Based Services

The sector is worth more than £8.9 billion per year, but that’s only part of it. It improves our quality of life.

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Arts Creative and Cultural Industries

Arts Creative and Cultural Industries

Bursting with ideas? Enjoy the buzz of helping to create something? Then a career in the creative sector could be inspiring, fun and rewarding.

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Automotive Industry and Passenger Transport

Automotive Industry and Passenger Transport

Motor vehicles have changed life beyond recognition. Vehicle transport plays an essential role in our lives, so this is a vast and vital industry.

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Broadcast, Film and Media

Broadcast, Film and Media

Broadcast media is about getting people’s attention, whether that’s through a documentary, a website, a radio show or a television advert.

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Chemical, Oil and Nuclear Industry

Chemical, Oil and Nuclear Industry

Pretty much every object has been processed or manufactured somehow – which is why this industry is so important.

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Construction

Construction

Nearly two million people work in construction in the UK. It’s a multi-billion pound industry responsible for putting up everything from a housing estate to the site of the Olympic Games.

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Customer Service and Retail

Customer Service and Retail

A satisfied customer is a good advert for your business, and likely to buy from you again. An unhappy customer isn’t. A whole field has grown up devoted to keeping customers happy.

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Energy/Utilities Industry

Energy/Utilities Industry

Water will come out of the tap. Our shower will be hot. The lights won’t suddenly go out. We take it for granted – but it’s an incredible feat.

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Electrical and Engineering

Electrical and Engineering

It’s a wonder our civilization doesn’t descend into chaos. Think about all that electricity fizzing around, the gas and water pumping through pipes, the machines constantly in motion…

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Financial Services

Financial Services

Money makes the world go round. Almost every business wants to make money, and that doesn’t happen automatically.

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Food and Drink

Food and Drink

It’s easy to forget that food doesn’t start out sliced, diced, wrapped and waiting for you on the supermarket shelf. The food and drink sector is the single largest manufacturing industry in the UK.

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Hair and Beauty

Hair and Beauty

Making people look and feel good is a hugely profitable industry. Hairdressing is one of the most popular areas with 340 million haircuts in the UK last year.

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Hospitality and Travel

Hospitality and Travel

The hospitality and travel sector covers everything from hotels and clubs through to events, gambling and travel services.

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Information Technology and Communications

Information Technology and Communications

The IT sector can be divided into two categories: companies that provide IT services and those that use IT within their business.

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Logistics

Logistics

A product may travel thousands of miles to reach the customer. The process of making sure the right things reach the right place at the right time in the right quantities is called logistics.

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Manufacturing and Processing

Manufacturing and Processing

Pretty much every object has been manufactured or processed in one way or another. From furniture making to plastics, there are many areas covered by these vital Apprenticeships.

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Marine Industry

Marine Industry

About 95% of Britain’s international trade comes and goes by sea, while millions of passengers leave and arrive at our ports every year. Boats play a part in our leisure lives as well.

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Property

Property

The most expensive thing that a person will ever buy is likely to be a house, and the process of buying one involves many people.

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Public Services

Public Services

Whatever job you end up doing, a large slice of what you earn will be taken away again in tax. Unappealing as that sounds, those taxes pay for the public services we couldn’t cope without.

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Sports and fitness

Sports and fitness

Roughly 620,000 people work in the sports and fitness industry – and with the 2012 Olympics on the horizon, it’s one of the fastest growing in the country.

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