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Showing 73–96 of 119 published occupations · page 4 of 5
Hospitality, travel and tourism
Event coordinators plan and run conferences, meetings, and functions from brief through to pack-down. They book venues and suppliers, keep a running schedule, and are on site making sure the plan survives contact with the day. Work is deadline-shaped, with quiet planning stretches and very long event days.
Hospitality, travel and tourism
Wedding planners help couples design a wedding, then book and coordinate the suppliers who deliver it. Much of the job is managing budgets, timelines, and family expectations long before the day itself. On the day the planner runs the schedule and absorbs the problems so the couple does not have to.
Hospitality, travel and tourism
Catering managers plan and deliver food and drink for functions, conferences, and contract sites. They quote and cost menus, order stock, and roster the kitchen and service teams for each event. The job runs on logistics: getting the right food, equipment, and people to the right place at the right time.
Hospitality, travel and tourism
Tour operations coordinators keep departures running behind the scenes: booking accommodation, transport, guides, and activities, and fixing things when a supplier falls through. They hold the schedule for multiple trips at once and are the contact point for guides in the field. Most of the work is desk-based with occasional site and familiarisation travel.
Hospitality, travel and tourism
Spa attendants keep a spa's facilities clean, stocked, and safe and look after guests moving between treatments and thermal areas. They set up treatment rooms for therapists, manage linen and lockers, and enforce facility rules. It is physical, on-your-feet work in warm, wet environments.
Hospitality, travel and tourism
Food service supervisors run a shift: assigning stations, keeping service moving, and stepping in wherever the queue backs up. They train new staff, handle guest complaints on the floor, and complete the food safety and cash checks for their shift. It is the usual first step from front-line work into management.
Information technology, data and cybersecurity
DevOps engineers build the machinery that gets code from a developer's machine into production safely. They automate builds, deployments, and infrastructure, and they are usually the people other teams come to when a release or environment misbehaves.
Information technology, data and cybersecurity
IT managers run the teams and services that keep an organisation's technology working. The job is mostly people, budgets, suppliers, and priorities rather than hands-on technical work, though a technical background is usually what gets someone there.
Law, compliance and justice
Carries out substantive legal work under a lawyer's supervision, and in a few jurisdictions within an independent licensed scope. The work is close to a lawyer's day: research, drafting, client contact, and running the mechanics of a file.
Law, compliance and justice
Keeps a lawyer's or paralegal's files, documents, and calendar moving. The role overlaps with paralegal work in some offices, but generally involves less independent legal analysis and more document and process handling.
Law, compliance and justice
Keeps the official record of what happens in a courtroom and manages the files, exhibits, and filings that pass through the registry. Much of the public's contact with the court system happens across this counter.
Law, compliance and justice
Prepares and manages the submissions that let a regulated product reach the market and stay there. Common in medicines, medical devices, food, chemicals, and financial products, the role translates technical evidence into what a regulator asks for.
Law, compliance and justice
Reviews, drafts, and tracks contracts across their whole life, from first draft through renewal or exit. The value of the role is largely in catching the clause nobody read and in knowing which obligations fall due next month.
Law, compliance and justice
Supervises people serving sentences in the community, balancing enforcement of conditions against practical help to stop reoffending. The job is part case management, part report writing, and part difficult conversation.
Law, compliance and justice
Helps people and employers prepare immigration, visa, and citizenship applications, explaining what a program requires and assembling the evidence for it. In many countries only a licensed or registered person may charge for this advice, and the regulator is worth checking first.
Law, compliance and justice
Supports people affected by crime as they move through the justice process, explaining what happens next and arranging practical and emotional help. The role often means being the one steady point of contact in a system that feels opaque from outside.
Law, compliance and justice
Runs the administrative side of a legal practice: producing documents from dictation and precedents, managing diaries and files, and handling client, court, and registry correspondence. Precision with names, dates, and formats is the core of the job.
Manufacturing, production and quality
Production supervisors run a shift, line, or cell: allocating people, keeping the schedule moving, and dealing with whatever interrupts it. They sit between operators and plant management, so the job mixes hands-on troubleshooting with coaching, safety enforcement, and reporting. Most supervisors come up from the floor and keep detailed knowledge of the process.
Manufacturing, production and quality
Plant managers hold overall accountability for a manufacturing site: safety, quality, output, cost, and the people who deliver them. The role is largely about setting priorities, resolving conflicts between departments, and making decisions when production, maintenance, and quality want different things. It combines operational depth with budget and regulatory responsibility.
Manufacturing, production and quality
Production planners decide what gets made, on which line, in what order, and with which materials. They balance customer demand against capacity, material availability, and changeover cost, then re-plan whenever a machine goes down or a delivery slips. The work is analytical but highly interruptible, since the plan rarely survives contact with the shop floor unchanged.
Manufacturing, production and quality
Maintenance planners turn maintenance demand into an executable schedule: scoping jobs, ordering parts, booking access to equipment, and sequencing work so technicians are not waiting. They also maintain the asset records and preventive routines that the plan is built from. The role reduces reactive work by making planned work easy to do.
Natural sciences and research
Research assistants carry out the practical work of a study under the direction of a lead researcher: collecting data, running procedures, and keeping records that stand up to scrutiny. The role exists across university, hospital, government, and commercial research settings, and the subject matter varies with the project. Posts are frequently tied to the funding period of a specific study.
Natural sciences and research
Ecologists study how organisms interact with each other and with their surroundings, and what changes when habitats are altered. Consultancy work is often tied to development projects: surveying a site, assessing impact, and recommending mitigation. Survey work is seasonal and weather-dependent, with report writing filling the rest of the year.
Natural sciences and research
Clinical research coordinators run the day-to-day operation of clinical studies at a site: recruiting and consenting participants, scheduling visits, and keeping documentation audit-ready. The role is as much about protocol discipline and paperwork as about science, because a study is only usable if it was run and recorded correctly. It sits at the point where research and patient care meet.
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