... and find out more about your options and what the choices you make might mean to you and your future. There's lots of information on Kirklees, the Yorkshire region and the UK's labour market too!

	Your learning options and much more!
	Check out what happened to Kirklees young people leaving Y11 last year
	... and what happened to Kirklees young people leaving Y13 last year
	See how many school leavers applied for each type of Apprenticeship or job with training in Kirklees and how many actually start the training with local providers (813kb Adobe Acrobat)
The forecasts on these pages are medium to long term. In the short term the credit crunch means that some sectors are laying people off, for example construction, estate agents, finance. Other sectors may begin to have problems, for example hotel and catering, retail and motor vehicle.

Want to know more about the labour market (jobs and employment) in Kirklees and the rest of the UK? Check out....

	Kirklees - an overview
	the local job market
	the West Yorkshire and UK job market
	the pay
	the difference qualifications make to pay
	the importance of skills
	why it's important to use your talents
	vacancies placed with Recruitline
	industry's future needs
	flexible working
	Career Around - play the game and find out what you've learnt!
	see also useful links to other organisations providing information on trends

Our thanks for permission to use their information on the attached pages go to the National Guidance Research Forum www.guidance-research.org
The NGRF website represents a new resource for anyone with an interest in career guidance including information on theory and practice. It also provides centrally located, reliable, high quality Labour Market Information for the UK on 30 sectors, which has been developed through a new partnership with the Sector Skills Councils.

Thanks also to Calderdale College for supplying some of the photos used in these pages.