Brand new job research from Totaljobs reveals that over two million UK workers are looking to change their jobs or their industry before this Christmas period. 6% have already given their official notice. Another 26% are actively looking for new jobs whilst a further 26% are looking for new jobs at the moment.
Totaljobs has measured more than 4.2 million job position changes over the last six years and also surveyed over 4,500 active job seekers from the Totaljobs online database. Totaljobs has also added research from 2,000 UK workers via Opinium, to highlight the UK’s most complete overview of UK career change trends.
For companies wanting to learn more about UK trends in employment career changes over the last six years, the industries workers are moving between, as well as staff retention rates across the different industry sectors,
The employment research shows not only an increase in UK workers starting new roles in the months ahead but a rise in changing industries, with 75% of workers from the Totaljobs report saying they are likely to consider they are more likely to consider working in a different industry following Covid-19. Just to confuse things even more, 18% of the workers surveyed are now planning to return to their previous industry.
Retention and loyalty vary by UK industry
Totaljobs’ analysis of 4.2 million jobs changes Some industries report higher employee retention rates than other industries, with Totaljobs’ career changes analysis revealing people
HR workers are the least likely to change 64%, followed by Design (62%), IT (62%). The sectors with the highest amount of workers leaving their industry are Military (47%), Advertising (42%), Public Sector, agriculture and Charity (all 41%).
How loyal a worker is to their existing employer also changes between industries, with Public Sector and Policing workers staying the longest and Marketing and PR Executives sating with the employer for the shortest period.
Cross-industry career switching set to increase
The reason why most workers (57%) gave for changing careers is they work looking for a better work life balance, a higher salary(52) and learning new skills (38%)
Jon Wilson, MD of Totaljobs said: “Our research shows that for many people, the career ladder isn’t so linear anymore; career shifts and job changes are commonplace. With Covid-19 changing our day-to-day working lives, people are searching for work-life balance, flexibility or simply for a job they can get more satisfaction out of, and they’ll look to other industries to find it.