Work Matters

Quicklinks:

In each of these 14 sections you can find out more about that area of work, what's happening in the sector, the types of jobs, the skills you need, average salaries and some sources to find out more.

When thinking about your future career you need to:

  • Find out about the jobs available
  • Know what qualifications are required
  • Plan how best to get the job you want



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Getting the career you want:

  • Try and get the best possible qualifications and training you can
  • Do relevant work experience
  • Have a good school attendance and punctuality record
  • As well as qualifications, employers are looking for people with what are called employability skills

Search Tips

If you're looking for a general term, like dance this is all you need to enter into the search box.
If you want to look for a dance class, however, you should enter the phrase like this: "dance class", or you will get all results containing dance and class as separate terms.

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