Where Are The Jobs, to Do X?

PasturesNew

Are there any official (or any) stats, sites, sources, which would indicate where in the country one should head for to find the most of any particular type of job.

I saw a Nextstep advisor yesterday and one of my questions to be covered was "should I stay in this county" and she was quite clear "with what you do, you need to leave the county", but I wondered if there was any easy to use list of what jobs exist where.... so I could key in my type of work, view the list then scan down until I spotted a town that was of interest to me and then use that as a starting point for looking for work.

e.g. if you are a ski instructor, living in Central London, then you'd want to know where most jobs for ski instructors and the skiing industry would be ... which would probably then come up with a list of places in Scotland and Wales ... and you could go down until you spotted somewhere you'd be happy to move to. Armed with this information you'd know which towns to target to send off CVs.

Ideally, also average salaries for those jobs. e.g. if being a chef pays £40k in one town, but £10k in a town just 50 miles away, that'd be part of the decision on which town to target.

It's just we're all sat here looking for jobs ... but I might just be looking in the wrong towns while completely missing out a town just 50/100 miles away that has double the volume of the jobs I'm after at an average 10% more salary.

ninky_2

PasturesNew i don't know of anywhere that has these statistics. however, most online job searches will allow you to do a nationwide search which will give you vacancies in the whole of the country. for example if you go to the govt jobseekers website and type in welder it will then give you the option to search just one town or the whole of the country. wouldn't this suit your purposes?

mitchaa

London = High salaries, high living costs, so stay away from there.

Aberdeen on the other hand High salaries, and a lot lower living costs.

The oil industry isn't all just about engineering, plenty of clerical typed jobs within the oil industry. Recruitment consultants are on a fortune up here.

I suppose it really depends on where you really want to locate too and what type of profession you are suited in.

Apolonation

ninky wrote: »

PasturesNew i don't know of anywhere that has these statistics. however, most online job searches will allow you to do a nationwide search which will give you vacancies in the whole of the country. for example if you go to the govt jobseekers website and type in welder it will then give you the option to search just one town or the whole of the country. wouldn't this suit your purposes?

That's a good idea, the number of vacancies would give you an idea of the trend in the area if you used a national service such as jobcentreplus.gov.uk

however there may be skews e.g. A large business opens somewhere and wants 200 technicians or something, but I think that's about the best way of gauging the labour market from a geographical point of view that you'll get!

Edit: to try to neutralise the skews, you could sample over time and average - but I think that's probabally a little overkill for the general impression you're going to want to form

PasturesNew

I went to a nextstep advisor to work out what to do/where ... and came away knowing:
- there's no point going on any courses, there are none in the county that would be relevant to me
- no point doing a degree, I already have bits of paper and experience and love what I have experience/qualifications in
- get out of this county as there are no jobs in your industry

My area of search is London and the South West, but as that spans 300 miles left to right and 100 miles top to bottom, I didn't really want a scattergun approach.

Job sought would be anything to do with project management, in an IT environment, not bothered if it's a full PM role, or simply project office support assistant. Not NHS, not public sector (both expect you to have experience in their industries already), not engingeering or construction (no experience), not Govt/security/military (I don't have security clearance). So, to be specific: project management within an IT environment. I have all the bits of paper and experience and the advisor is checking my CV next week to check it's not wrong (ran out of time as you only get 40 minutes with them).

I am happy to just make lots of searches, but didn't know if there were any stats at all really... didn't expect there to be, but thought it worth asking.

Zazen999

Expedia do alot of work on a consultancy basis on what types of jobs are more prevalent/required in what counties.

olly300

The issue you have at the moment PN is that there are lot of people looking for work in that field with experience like you.

PasturesNew

olly300 wrote: »

The issue you have at the moment PN is that there are lot of people looking for work in that field with experience like you.

I know, which is why I haven't really looked for one for two years as there were thousands laid off in IT/banking/project work in late 2007.. but I now need to actually actively look, rather than sitting back and thinking "I won't even look because there's nothing". I have to try and see what happens now, rather than assuming.

ceridwen

PASTURES

I can certainly follow your - as usual impeccable - logic. Have you just found a "gap in the market" that you yourself could fill perhaps?

As we know - you look at things a lot more "logically" than most people and have no particular ties to the area you are in. With this being the case - you are much more mobile than most people.

A lot of people (including myself) choose the area we wish to live in/stay in first - and then expect that area of our choice to "come up with the goods" and produce a suitable job/career for us and we wont move to somewhere else to find anything. A lot of us take the view "life first - then we will think about whether there is a suitable job nearby".

But - there is a large group of people who are pretty mobile and they might also like the type of resource you are looking for. Could you start up a website on this perhaps? (and in the process you've got yourself a suitable job:D)

Wine_of_the_World

That would be a great idea!

After uni I often thought about moving to an area where there was no nearby uni with the degree I had just completed - in the hope that there would be fewer graduates in my field going for each job.

Although I have friends in the South and London I would happily move to different new area if it meant a better chance of a half decent job.

wontfallforit

Wine_of_the_World wrote: »

After uni I often thought about moving to an area where there was no nearby uni with the degree I had just completed - in the hope that there would be fewer graduates in my field going for each job.

And how did that work out for you? I did my MA in a "niche", highly-sought after subject, which is only offered in one uni in England, and one in Wales. There seem to be plenty of job opportunities in the London area, as it's a highly relevant and "cutting edge" (to use a cliche) discipline, yet only 40-50 people graduate in that subject per year. I'm not working in that sector at present - I must say I lost a bit of interest along the way - but it's my ultimate fallback should my local career plans not come to fruition in the future.