Dive into jobroles

Responsible for entire collections within museums, curators protect and promote our heritage. It’s thanks to their hard work that a plethora of artefacts and works of art are still around for us to enjoy today.

A strategic role, business intelligence consultants review and analyse huge amounts of company data before suggesting optimisation solutions. They uncover the hidden secrets in data before passing them onto company bosses!

Civil servants who work in all our interests, labour inspectors are an employee’s best friend. They ensure that companies are properly applying employment law as it stands, from working hours and conditions to redundancies and dismissals.

Sitting in front of their mixing desk, sound engineers run the show. Equal parts artist and technician, they convert audio recordings into the required formats (CD, digital Blu-ray, vinyl...).

A comparatively recent career option, the role of an office manager is probably best summed up as a “super assistant”. Whether in a small business or large cooperation, they support company bosses and teams with a wide range of tasks, ensuring the office runs as smoothly as possible. Versatility is a must!

Collecting information, processing it and making it accessible: these are the responsibilities of archivists, whether in a company, library, or even a museum.

Whether packaging up books in a warehouse or working on online deliveries for a big supermarket brand, order pickers collect and pack products with one primary goal in mind: customer satisfaction.

What would happen if you forgot to get your deeds of sale, your will, or some other important document notarised by a professional? Well, it would be worth nothing. Nada. Zilch. You’d probably need to shred it and start all over again. As public officials, notaries play a key role with life’s important paperwork.

Nike, Apple, Samsung, Dior... brands are everywhere you look. And given we all instantly know what brands do and represent, it’s no secret, they owe it all to excellent brand managers!

Palaeontologists seek to understand living creatures of the past by studying their fossils. Tyrannosaurus teeth, mammoth tusk or perhaps even a plant fossil? There really is something for everyone!

In response to calls for tender, cost engineers work closely with architects, design studios and building companies to establish the overall cost of an engineering or construction project. They’re responsible for costing everything down to the last penny and monitoring budgets once work has begun.

Where finance, marketing and communications meet, fundraising managers (or simply fundraisers) have to be keen strategists, because money doesn’t grow on trees nowadays, you know.

We all have adverts or slogans that stick in our minds... and that means a creative director somewhere has done their job properly! A key role within communications agencies, they offer their creative vision and oversee teams.

Capable of deciphering manufacturing instructions and manuals that remain entirely foreign to the rest of us, they’re the real magicians of all things mechanical and electronic.

With a black belt in antivirus techniques, IT security managers are responsible for the integrity and confidentiality of their company’s data. They work hard to ensure no incidents have a lasting effect on their company’s IT system.