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South Yorkshire Labour Market Information South Yorkshire has a population of nearly 1.3 million people with around 540, 000 people in paid work including 30, 000 people who are self-employed. Traditionally the region had a reputation for its coal, steel and engineering industries. However, technology has meant that a lot of the jobs that previously would have been done manually have now been replaced by automated processes leading to industries that require highly skilled individuals to operate the machines that now take the place of the humans that used to do their work. So where do people work in South Yorkshire?
A huge amount of money has been invested in South Yorkshire to encourage economic growth and regeneration in the region, an example of this is the new Robin Hood Doncaster-Sheffield International airport that has will have created an estimated 7,000 jobs by 2010.
The largest employers in the region are now: - Public services (administration, education and healthcare), employing 119,000 people
- Business and financial services, employing 77,000 people.
- Transport, hospitality and catering, employing 53,000 people.
- Retail, employing 51,000 people.
- Manufacturing, employing 72,000 people.
- Construction, employing 42,000 people.
Skills shortage areasA number of jobs within the region have been highlighted as being hard-to-fill (i.e.) it has been difficult to find a suitable person to fill a vacancy. Notably these jobs are in the construction, manufacturing, education business services and transport sectors. However it has also been highlighted that there are also a number of specific skills that people from our region are lacking. These range from technical and practical skills to basic literacy and numeracy skills that are integral in any organisation.
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South Yorkshire has spawned from a collection of industrial towns and cities into an international business hub with forecast growth in a number of key business sectors like health, transport, wholesaling, business services, education and manufacturing. The learning and skills council expect that approximately 16, 800 workers will need to be replaced annually until 2010 and that of the 13.5 million jobs expected to be filled by 2012, 50% are most likely to require graduates. MORE DETAILED INFORMATION:
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