Where are the jobs in Trafford

There are a number of sites which show you Labour Market Information (LMI). LMI tells you what different types of jobs are planning to increase in a particular sector, stay about the same or if there won’t be as many jobs in the future.

LMI can help you make choices about your education and career choices so you are ready for a diverse and ever changing labour market.

Below are a few websites that may help.

Work Matters

Work Matters collects data across the ten Greater Manchester boroughs to help professionals who offer careers guidance to help young people make choices based on what is an ever changing labour market.

• Greater Manchester Area Fact sheets which contain information about the numbers and distribution of workers in the key sectors in Greater Manchester as a whole and in each of the ten boroughs, see information about Trafford here.
  
• Sector Fact sheets for each of the 15 Key sectors of the Greater Manchester economy
  
• Activities and lesson plans for students at key stages 3 and 4 as well as resources that can be used to prepare students for major events.

Prospects

Prospects is the official graduate careers website, you can find out what the graduates from 2007 are doing in early 2008.

• How many graduates had jobs.
  
• What graduates could expect to earn.
  
• The types of jobs they went into.
  
• How many went on to further study.

Find out more here.

Manchester Enterprises

Manchester Enterprises have created a report which shows detailed information about a whole range of careers - you can see if there is over or under supply of candidates and where there are skills shortages, you can find the report here.