Careers Hub

Facilities Management

Facilities management is one of the fastest-growing professions in the UK and vital to the success of any business. Perhaps it’s vital to your future success too?

Risk Management

The skills required to ‘know your enemy’, and the development of tactics to counter that enemy, is basic risk management. That means, without even knowing it, you may have spent a significant proportion of your Services career preparing for a role in this industry. Are you ready to take the risk?

Road Transport and Freight Management

Want to carve out a new career in the world of road transport? Here’s the steer on driver and transport manager qualifications, licensing and training

Healthcare

The healthcare sector, public and private, offers a huge range of career opportunities. When the time comes for resettlement, you may well find you already have sought-after skills. But, to really make sure your prospects are in the pink, now’s the time to start getting some appropriate qualifications under your belt.

Law

If you haven’t yet considered law as a profession, solicitor and advocate Ahmed Al-Nahhas, of London-based law firm Bolt Burdon Kemp, explains the variety of opportunities it offers that might make it a very advantageous career move – it may even offer you the chance to help other ex-Service people and maintain your connection with the Forces

Sport and Fitness

If you’re considering swapping your uniform for a tracksuit – or maybe even something in Lycra – there’s a variety of careers to choose from. From personal trainer to Pilates instructor, boot camp leader to basketball coach, the sport and fitness industry could offer the next step you’re seeking

Drones

Popularly depicted as the ‘eye in the sky’, the unprecedented growth in commercial acceptance of unmanned aerial vehicles – commonly known as drones – is fuelling an enormous upturn in related careers. Maybe it’s you who should be keeping an eye on them?

Security

Secure your future with a career in an industry to which many Service leavers find themselves very well suited. Planning ahead with relevant qualifications now could see you sitting pretty in a civvy security role when the time comes

Utilities

Help to keep Britain running smoothly by directing your skills towards our vitally important utilities industry, covering gas, power, waste and water

Building Trades

Want to turn your talents to a practical career on leaving? One of Britain’s widest-ranging industry sectors, the building trades, has a huge range of roles to choose from. Here’s how to ensure a firm foundation for your new-build future

Close protection

The various sectors of the security industry offer a huge range of employment opportunities – none more so than close protection. Could CP be your calling?

Rail Industry

Like many youngsters, you may have dreamed of becoming a train driver one day – that’s still a possibility, of course, but the modern rail industry offers so much more scope than that, with jobs covering a huge range of areas, from signaller to site manager, engineer to HR officer. Does rail offer the role you’ve been looking for?