The Olympics coming to London will be great opportunity for many, not only for those people that will get the chance to go and see the various events but on a commercial level for the thousands of people in London and the surrounding areas that it will create part time jobs or temporary for.
The Mayor of London has announced an £11m package to provide training and jobs ahead of the 2012 Olympics in London. There will be grants that will specifically fund skills training, employment advice and work placements meaning that those that can secure a role will benefit from work development and increased skill sets. Vast numbers of temporary jobs or contract jobs created will be in a range of roles from sports coaches, cooks and builders to stewards, cleaners and engineers and many of these will be trained for over 27 different projects involved in the games such as Centrepoint and the Prince’s Trust.
The sector skills council for construction has estimated that the 2012 Olympics will create an additional 33,500 jobs for the sector in the next seven years. This is solely based on construction work directly attributable to the games. The forecast of 33,500 can be broken down as 6,500 managerial or administrative roles, 2,800 professionals such as architects and surveyors and 24,000 trade or craft roles.
On top of this there will be a multitude of temporary jobs created in the catering and hospitality sector working in all the bars and restaurants that hope to thrive on the increase in trade. So all in all the games coming to London will create temporay job and part time job opportunities for an array of people in all kinds of differents sectors which can only be a good thing.
