In line with our feeling of general optimism about the employment market, we are also seeing an increase in vacancy advertising volume and clients using Search.co.uk/jobs, with us reaching a record number of vacancies advertised in the past week at over 5,000!

Some interesting new job vacancies added this week include a Manager for Inverness’ new ‘Business Improvement District’ (BID), to work closely with local business owners to lead the development of Inverness City Centre – a fantastic opportunity for a strong business manager with a passion for developing their home city!

The University for the Highlands, UHI, are also advertising new job vacancies in their communications and Executive teams, for a Communications Assistant, Programme Management Officer and a Programme Management Administration Manager. These are alongside hundreds of other jobs advertised across the Highlands and northern Scotland on Search.co.uk/jobs and our sister site, Hijobs.co.uk.

RED Driving Schools are looking for new Driving Instructors to joins them across Scotland and the north west of England. They offer great training and once you have qualified you can go on to earn up to £600 per week! (I’ll avoid the ‘get motoring’ type jokes…..oops, too late).

Along with hundreds of other new job vacancies posted this week, there are some Insurance and Banking Team Manager roles with a major new employer about to launch into Glasgow and Newcastle. If you have experience in Call & Contact centres and Banking or Insurance, these roles really do offer an unrivalled opportunity to get in at ground level and help lead the development of a hugely exciting new bank in the UK. Just look for the ‘New.Different.Better’ branding on the site or look under ‘Banking Jobs’ or ‘Financial Services Jobs’ to find out more.

Hundreds of more new jobs will be on Search.co.uk/jobs in the next week so happy job hunting!

Did you know that the public sector in Scotland accounts for 24.9% of all jobs in Scotland! An increase from 22.6% from as recently as Q1 2008. That’s a staggering 623,300 Scots working in the public sector.

Of this total, 81.7% of them work for public bodies which are under the control of the Scottish Government (the rest are under the control of the UK government). So, there’s no doubt who Scotland’s biggest employer is.

A key difference that’s played a part in this recent increase, relates to the massive upheaval in Scotland’s banking and financial sector. In effect, all those people working for RBS and LloydsTSB in Scotland now work for ‘public corporations’ – as we are their biggest shareholder. Hence, those same people now work in the ‘public sector’, according to government statistics. That’s around 44,000 new ‘public sector’ bankers, to you and me.

This continuing dominance of the public sector in Scotland’s economy also illustrates just how important the current decisions being made about investment in the public sector and future predictions of doom regarding job cuts across national and local government, really are.

However, if you’re looking for a job in Scotland in the current market – whether you’re in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen or Wick – with the current state of the ‘private sector’, the pull of the public sector is now stronger than ever.

Of course, you can view all local government jobs by simply clicking onto ‘search.co.uk/jobs’.