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“Is everyone still here? Can everyone hear me? ok? Ok, let’s go – follow the guide!” Guided tours, organised excursions, museum visits... fortunately, tour guides are on hand with the answer to every question – within reason!

Artisans and sales people with expert knowledge and a good sense of communication, butchers are specialists in the meat they select and prepare for sale in retail environments.

Want more resistant bulletproof vests? Add carbon nanotubes! That’s the job of a nanotechnology engineer, manipulating physical structures to bring about technological innovations.

Where finance, marketing and communications meet, fundraising managers (or simply fundraisers) have to be keen strategists, because money doesn’t grow on trees nowadays, you know.

A cigarette hanging from their bottom lip, a trilby hat pulled down low over their eyes and the collar turned up on their trench coat... we all know the stereotypical image of private detectives, but beyond the clichés, the reality of this career is much more complex.

These days, claiming “ownership” of something you’ve made just isn’t good enough anymore. In cultural settings and industrial sectors alike, the notion of intellectual property is now key.

Music, art, theatre, publishing, sport... talent agents are specialists in specific industries, which they know like the back of their hand. Without them, most of the world’s biggest stars wouldn’t be where they are today.

(4-hydroxybutyl)azanediyl)bis (hexane-6,1-diyl)bis(2-hexyldecanoate)… mean anything to you? Luckily, pharmaceutical engineers are here to help, overseeing the production of vaccines, medicines and medical products.

True scientists of language, linguists analyse, dissect and describe languages to help us better understand how they work. They work on both ancient languages and entirely contemporary ones.

BIM (building information modelling) is a fairly recent collaborative engineering process, which is based on modelling data from building or renovation projects.

Customer files, sales figures, employee contact details... data is what keeps businesses afloat these days! And database administrators are there to ensure data is kept safe, secure and accessible at all times.

Without them, we’d have no DVDs, barcodes, telescopes, fibre optic (meaning no ultra-fast broadband... can you imagine!). Put simply, the technical applications of an optical engineer’s work are endless.

Communications directors organise the entire communications strategy for their company, institution or organisation. They play with the public’s unconscious mind to get them to identify with a brand, name or idea.

“Just do it”. “Because you’re worth it”. “Think different”. Just a few phrases that have been forever etched on our brains and have become part of everyday life, which get quoted all the time.

Specialists in the water cycle, hydrologists manage the quality and quantity of water available to us. They work to make the best possible use of our planet’s aquatic resources.