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Sectors G-M

Including: Hair beauty and body art; Health; Hospitality; IT and telecoms; Justice: custodial care, community justice and police; Languages across the sectors; Logistics; Manufacturing

Hair beauty and body art
Includes – beauty therapy salons, hairdressing salons, beauty therapy salons within other businesses, tattoo and piercing studios, barber shops
Occupational examples – nail technician, spa services, tattooist, salon assistance, beauty therapist, senior stylist

Health – UPDATED!
Includes – hospital activities, medical and dental practice activities, other human health activities, ambulance transport, complementary medicine
Occupational examples – nurse, nursing auxiliaries, medical practitioners, care assistants, paramedics, dental nurses, doctors, occupational therapists

Hospitality 
Includes – restaurants, pubs, clubs and bars, hotels, contract catering, hospitality services (which includes hospitality occupations in non-hospitality businesses e.g. catering staff in a hospital)
Occupational examples – hotel managers, catering managers, receptionists, bar staff, cleaners, porters, bar staff waiting staff, chefs, cooks

IT and telecoms – UPDATED!
Includes – IT industry, IT professionals, telecoms
Occupational examples – ICT managers, IT software professionals, computer engineers, database assistants, line repairers, cable jointers

Justice: custodial care, community justice and police – NEW!
Includes – policing and law enforcement, public prosecution, court services, custodial care, community justice
Occupational examples – police officers, police inspectors, prison officers, probation officers, solicitors, security guards, community officers, victim support

Languages across the sectors
Includes – all industries which offer opportunities to use language skills, this means all languages other than English such as modern foreign languages, community and heritage languages and British Sign Language
Occupational examples – interpreter, language teacher/trainer, translator, jobs where languages are used

Logistics – UPDATED! 
Includes – freight transport by road, storage and warehousing, activities of other transport agencies, national post and courier activities, scheduled and non-scheduled air transport, cargo handling
Occupational examples – postal workers, couriers, transport managers, warehouse operatives, supply chain managers, LGV drivers, forklift truck drivers

Manufacturing  
Includes – making a product from raw materials by hand or with machinery product from raw materials by hand or with machinery, defined by coatings, building products, print, paper and extractives industries
Occupational examples – assembler, chemical plant processor, foundry worker, paper manufacturing worker, process engineer, quality assurance officer

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