New Survey Suggests Food Industry Increasingly Seen as a Stable Employment Sector

The survey also found a further 40% of respondents agreed that the food manufacturing industry offers good career prospects.

24 April 2012 --- According to the Harris Barometer Survey, a survey conducted by the Food and Drink Federation, 45% of respondents agreed that a career in the food manufacturing industry is a stable and secure employment sector in the UK.

The survey also found a further 40% of respondents agreed that the food manufacturing industry offers good career prospects.

Historically the perceptions of the food industry have often been considered to be an undesirable sector, with popular views that jobs in the industry have no prospects and are poorly paid. When in fact the industry employs a number of highly skilled and highly paid individuals, with a staggering 400,000 people employed right across the UK.

FDF is already taking action to overcome this challenge with our careers campaign 'Taste Success', which operates at busting the myths around a career in the food industry.

Angela Coleshill, the FDF's Director of Competiveness said:

“We are extremely pleased with these findings as it demonstrates that the industry is an exciting and stable sector to work in. We employ some of the most innovative people and with a variety of roles from creating, developing, researching and marketing new products – the food industry is a great place to work”.

“As part of the FDF's 20/20 vision for growth, we have acknowledged that one of the key challenges is to deliver a sustainable growth of 20% by 2020 - by attracting the best talent to our industry. We hope these findings provide skeptical individuals that this industry really is a challenging, rewarding and exciting sector to be in”.