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  • Careers occupational information

    Topics:
    • Employment and skills programmes (including apprenticeships)
    The Careers Service provides up to date information about the different sectors of the Northern Ireland economy in regular bulletins and "newsflashes".

    Careers support guides

    • Careers Occupational Information Unit – A guide to careers support for ethnic minorities living in Northern Ireland

    Career entry routes

    • Careers Occupational Information Unit - A guide to career entry routes

    Bulletins

    • Careers Occupational Information Unit bulletin - Cyber Security
    • Careers Occupational Information Unit bulletin - Hospitality and Tourism
    • Careers Occupational Information Unit bulletin - Games, Animation and Visual Effects (VFX) guide
    • Careers Occupational Information Unit bulletin - Construction and the Built Environment (including Key Takeaways factsheet)
    • Careers Occupational Information Unit bulletin - Entrepreneurship (including Key Takeaways factsheet)
    • Careers Occupational Information Unit bulletin - Data Careers (including Key Takeaways factsheet)
    • Careers Occupational Information Unit bulletin - Health and Social Care (including key takeaways)
    • Careers Occupational Information Unit bulletin - Software careers (including Key Takeaways factsheet)
    • Careers Occupational Information Unit bulletin - Food careers (including Key Takeaways factsheet)
    • Careers Occupational Information Unit bulletin - Financial Services and FinTech (including shorter Key Takeaways factsheets)
    • Careers Occupational Information Unit bulletin - Legal careers
      • New: shorter 'Key Takeaways' factsheet - Legal careers
    • Careers Occupational Information Unit bulletin - Life Sciences
    • Careers Occupational Information Unit bulletin – Engineering and Advanced Manufacturing careers (including key takeaways)

    Subject-based career guides

    • Careers Occupational Information Unit - A Career in Statistics
    • Careers Occupational Information Unit - Spotlight on young women in STEM
    • Careers Occupational Information Unit - Spotlight on Accounting
    • Careers Occupational Information Unit - Spotlight on Economics
    • Careers Occupational Information Unit - Spotlight on Maths
    • Careers Occupational Information Unit bulletin - Spotlight on Physics
    • Careers Occupational Information Unit - Spotlight on Psychometric Testing

    Newsflashes

    The latest information on the following sectors:

    • Newsflash – Top green Jobs likely to be important to the local economy
    • Newsflash - social housing careers
    • Health and social care
    • Social work and social care careers

    Focus on...

    • Childcare sector - training and skills provision

    Labour market updates

    Insight articles on the local labour market:

    • Northern Ireland Space Industry
    • NI Skills Barometer 2023-2033
    • Online job postings trends 2025

    Related to Careers occupational information

    Most recent publications

    • Careers Occupational Information Unit – A guide to careers support for ethnic minorities living in Northern Ireland

      Published 4 December 2025
    • Careers Occupational Information Unit bulletin - Cyber Security

      Published 31 October 2025
    See all publications in this topic

    Most recent news items

    • Effective career planning crucial on the pathway to good jobs – Murphy

      Published 14 August 2024
    • Informed decisions imperative to effective career planning

      Published 17 August 2023
    See all news in this topic

    Access to information

    How to request information from the Department for the Economy including Freedom of Information (FOI) and the use of our Publication Scheme.

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