Manchester city region offers a high-quality workforce of 7.2 million people within an hour’s commute of the city centre.
The region is recognised as being a leading European business destination across a number of industries and is fast becoming a magnet for attracting global talent.
Manchester has a distinctive geography of concentrated clusters containing a varied, qualified, skilled and sustainable labour pool. Manchester is unique in having a large quantity and quality of potential employees across a wide range of different industries, including digital and creative technologies, energy and environment, financial and professional services, life sciences and health innovation, logistics and manufacturing.
With four universities offering world-class higher education to over 99,000 students at any one time, recruitment and retention of high quality staff is guaranteed. A further 22 universities and HE institutions are within an hour’s drive, broadening the scope for recruitment.
The overall lower operating costs than the South East and the access to skilled workers in Manchester provide the ideal opportunity for a company to establish a sustainable operation in Manchester.
Manchester offers unrivalled access to a deep talent-pool with experienced multi-skilled, multi-lingual staff who speak up to 200 languages. In addition to this, there are over 18,000 foreign language students within an hour’s drive of the city, some 41,500 international students and 80,300 foreign professionals in the North West region.
[Source: HESA 2016 & Annual Population Survey 2016, ONS]
Manchester Airport is key to driving the international accessibility of the city region, which continuously attracts multinational interest from both foreign companies and citizens. Currently, over 2000 foreign owned companies have operations based in the city region including a growing number of pan-European customer contact centres, signifying Manchester’s capacity to supply skilled linguists.
*Multi-lingual Manchester (2014)
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