Youth offending team officer

Youth offending team officers work to prevent children and young people under 18 from offending and reoffending.

Child protection officer

Child protection officers promote children's wellbeing and protect them from harm or abuse.

Play therapist

Play therapists help children to make sense of difficult life experiences, or complex psychological issues through play.

Residential support worker

Residential support workers look after the physical and mental wellbeing of children or vulnerable adults in care.

Senior care worker

Senior care workers provide physical and emotional support to individuals and supervise teams of care assistants.

Marketing executive

Marketing executives promote a company's products, services or brand.

Stage Technician

Don't fancy working a traditional 9 to 5? Meet Bella, a stage technician at Factory International, Manchester. Here she tells us about the perks of her job, how she got there and shares some of her top tips for getting into the creative industries.

Fundraising Manager

Twenty four-year-old Allana is a Corporate Fundraising Manager for Mermaids, a charity that supports gender variant and transgender youth.

Sustainability Communications Lead

Edward is a Sustainability & LSEG Foundation Senior Associate at the London Stock Exchange Group — one of the world's biggest providers of financial data, analytics and news. In this Q&A, he tells us exactly what he does and how finance and sustainability can go hand in hand.

Lots of job ads ask for ‘strong communication skills’. But what does that actually mean? And how can you develop yours?

Almost 2 million people in the UK are freelancers, or freelance workers. In a world of 9-to-5s and office-based jobs, they march to the beat of their own business drum. 🤔 But what does it mean to be a freelancer? And should you become one?

The Girl Boss is dead. Make way for the ✨ Lazy Girl ✨. Almost ten years on from peak #girlboss era, the popularity of the #lazygirljob hashtag on TikTok (over 17 million views) suggests that young people are now happy doing the bare minimum at work. But there’s a bit more to it. We explored the trend and spoke to a careers coach to get to the bottom of whether Gen Z really are lazy.

🧑‍💻 Hybrid work. It’s a phrase you might have seen or heard. But what actually is it? Why do people do it? And is it the right style of work for you?

Finding your future career — one that you’ll enjoy doing and that will help the planet — is tough. We think it should be easy. We’re Need to Know. A news outlet and a careers platform. And we’re here to help you find topics and careers to care about.