Part of the Department for Education and Employment Skills Review Programme, this volume explores current and future skill requirements in key occupations. The study of sales and marketing occupations was based on 17 in-depth interviews examining developments in the occupations.
Engagement is a frequently used and fashionable term. Some companies have 'engagement models' and are attempting to measure levels of engagement, perhaps to input to the balanced scorecard, or for incorporation into the human capital report. This book deals with employee engagement.
Despite turbulence in the marketplace, employer confidence in the value of recruiting and retaining graduates remains high. This report presents findings which offer a wider and more inclusive range of benchmark data than previously gathered from UK employers regarding graduate retention rates.
This work illustrates the importance of Key Skills as a central part of government education training policy. Key skills include: communication, the application of numbers, IT, working with others, improving own learning and performance and problem solving. It also reveals specific concerns about the coverage of Key Skills and that the level of need for these skills is generally quite low, but as employees progress, they are expected to exhibit a wider range and depth of Key Skills.
One of the key changes in employment patterns in the 1980s was the growth in UK self-employment, and the increase within this of particular groups. There is little evidence on the extent to which self-employment has become an important career destination for new graduate. The graduate labour market is changing, and graduates can no longer expect stability and linear career profession in organization. For some, self-employment offers further labour market opportunities. Success requires development of entrepreneurial and specific business skills. This report focuses attention, among other things, on the support various stakeholders in higher education provide for students considering self-employment.
Of the 400,000 graduates in the United Kingdom in 1998, more than 200,000 had first degrees and the others had undergraduate or postgraduate qualifications. More than one in three graduates had already undertaken paid work while still in school (primarily in the service sector). The demand for graduates among the traditional recruiters and reports of recruitment difficulties have increased steadily over the past few years. Although starting salaries offered by recruiters have grown fast, in the longer term they have simply tracked changes in average earnings in the work force. Vacancies among the major recruiters were largely bounding back from the low point of the last recession and were not much higher than in the late 1980s. Many graduates are taking more than 1 year (and sometimes up to 3 years) to find their way into permanent jobs and careers. Those graduating in medicine and related subjects, education, computer science, engineering, and mathematics have moved into high-level jobs the fastest and have enjoyed the lowest unemployment rates. The numbers of graduates are expected to be broadly stable for the next 3 years. Forty-one tables/figures are included. The addresses of 14 data sources are provided. (Contain 53 references.) (MN)
This report is the second in a series exploring employers' skill requirements and how they are changing in eight different occupations. This qualitative study of sales assistants in the retail industry looks at the culture and competitive strengths in retailing, and the nature and impact of change in the industry. The study also addresses recruitment, and the assessment of whether individuals have the skills and abilities needed. It examines skill gaps and recruitment difficulties and the training and development of sales assistants.
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