City of Glasgow College held a careers day on Thursday, the 24th of April. This included all sorts of careers to encourage and give opportunities to young people starting off in the workforce.

A focus of this careers day was health care workers, as there were many tables and ambassadors focused on the healthcare industries, such as hospice and carers.

Health workers are decreasing. After the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a steady decline in our healthcare staff. Fewer people are going into the industry than in previous years, along with those who are qualified struggling to find work due to budget cuts. There is a push to get young people to start their careers in industries like nursing, doctors and care.

This career event displayed that not all jobs in the healthcare industry were completely healthcare-related. With jobs such as events management being involved in the hospice industry due to their charity events, people can also help by volunteering, which requires no qualifications other than compassion and empathy for others.

Many of these companies or charities offer a sort of apprenticeship that helps you to learn as you work with little to no qualifications. They offer this service to let you learn in practice rather than theory, letting you take away work experience as well as qualifications, giving young people a boost in today's job market.

These careers are in desperate need of staff and will aid anyone interested.

Joseph Doyle, 26, a recruitment manager for City and County healthcare said: “for ourselves we don’t require any professional experience or qualifications, for myself when I am looking I’m looking for people that’ve shown care and compassion in the past through trying to become a carer or there’s any experience in the family… as long as you’ve got the passion and the drive we can help give the qualifications for it.”

Video by Skye Morgan

Written by Brooke Hughes

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