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Retail and transport. There were 90, vacancies in retail, up from 65, in the previous quarter April to June. Greggs and Next are among the high street names which have recently warned of staff shortages in the run-up to Christmas.

Vacancies in the transport sector are also on the rise at 52,, amid a UK-wide shortage of lorry drivers which contributed to recent petrol shortages. These figures cover the period when the government's furlough scheme came to an end.

It supported about About one million workers were thought to be on furlough when the scheme ended last month, but the wave of job cuts some experts predicted doesn't seem to have happened. Many businesses with large numbers of furloughed workers say they have taken everyone back.

The number of redundancies proposed by employers in September was close to record lows, and unions say they're not aware of major job cuts.

Jobseekers should be ''strategic'' and target sectors experiencing shortages as well as those that are growing, says Gerwyn Davies, from human resources body the CIPD. The shortage occupation list - used to offer work visas to people moving to the UK - shows where workers are needed. It includes fields like engineering, web programming and graphic design. Catering manager. Counter service assistant.

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