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Often working in the shadows, publishers are book professionals. It’s thanks to them we have the novels, cookbooks and school textbooks we all know and love, whether on paper or in digital formats.

In 2018, over 1,700 million tons of steel were used worldwide... so it’s no overstatement to say we couldn’t do without metallurgists, the researchers who are borderline inventors.

Specialists in all things beauty who need excellent knowledge of cosmetic products, beauticians advise their clients, helping them enhance their natural beauty through various facial and body treatments.

Fine strategists, keen observers and fantastic organisers, pre-sales engineers seize every opportunity that comes their way and convince their customers of the quality of their company’s products.

It’s often said they do “the most beautiful job in the world”. Midwives support women throughout their pregnancies and help them give birth.

Responsible for “development” and “operations”, DevOps engineers have both a cool job title and a dual responsibility: coding websites or apps, as well as deploying them and making sure they work properly.

Nothing works perfectly 24/7. And when problems or questions do crop up, it’s down to customer service agents to straighten everything out. And it’s their managers who need to oversee the entire department, taking control and keeping a global vision.

What’s in a name? Technical sales representatives are – perhaps unsurprisingly – technicians and sales people at the same time. A vital part of every sales department, they often specialise in a particular range of products or services.

You must have heard the cast asking for a round of applause for the stage manager at the end of a concert or theatre performance because, without these outstanding artistic technicians, there wouldn’t be a show to enjoy at all. Time for another curtain call!

Occupying a highly strategic role, financial controllers oversee the accounting for their entire company: everything goes across their desk (well, across their spreadsheets).

One of those careers that does what it says on the tin: venture capitalists literally bet on new ventures, investing in startups at various stages of growth in the hope they’ll provide a good return on investment.

(4-hydroxybutyl)azanediyl)bis (hexane-6,1-diyl)bis(2-hexyldecanoate)… mean anything to you? Luckily, pharmaceutical engineers are here to help, overseeing the production of vaccines, medicines and medical products.

Ever heard of the Yuka app? A quick scan of the barcodes on the food you eat will bring up a mountain of useful data – all the result of analyses carried out by skilled agrifood analysts to determine the quality of products intended for consumption.

High-volume sequencing and big data: both of these technological feats produce gigantic amounts of data that can be analysed in the fields of biology and medicine. Bioinformaticians are on the case!

The fact you can call your grandma any time, day or night, is thanks to them. Telecoms engineers design the devices that allow information to flow from A to B.