Skills Market
Any knowledge-driven economy needs access to a highly-skilled labour pool with the appropriate mix of expertise and experience.
The Greater Cambridge area ranks highly among UK cities for the number of people with higher-level qualifications, including graduates and people with postgraduate degrees. People living and working in the city are amongst the most highly qualified in the country with 46% of Cambridge residents educated to degree level, compared to 26% nationally.
Migrant workers are making up an increasing proportion of the local labour market and the city has the highest level of internal and international migration per capita in the country creating a truly cosmopolitan atmosphere and highlighting the draw of the city as an international centre for ideas and collaboration. Alongside three Universities there are also many good schools and further education colleges, and comprehensive details are provided in the Business Support Links – Universities and Education page for more details.
There are numerous ways to tap into this enormous pool of talent ensuring you secure the very best employees to contribute to the growth of your business from specialist and high street recruitment agencies to local press and well established networking organizations. Here are just a few:
Cambridge Network
Hosts job vacancies page on its website for finding skilled staff for technical roles in the Cambridge Cluster and on which many of the Cambridge recruitment agencies post their vacancies.
www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk/vacancies
Cambridge News
A jobfinder website for Cambridge and the surrounding area can be found on the Cambridge News website.
http://jobs.cambridge-news.co.uk/jobs/default.asp
