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Receptionists physically welcome visitors and deal with enquiries. The also often need to operate a company’s switchboard, answering inbound calls. They’re the first face you’ll see at most organisations, so it’s important they set the right tone!

Counterfeiting and industrial espionage are their sworn enemies: as specialists in intellectual property, a patent engineer’s ultimate mission is to protect their company’s inventions.

Civil servants who work in all our interests, labour inspectors are an employee’s best friend. They ensure that companies are properly applying employment law as it stands, from working hours and conditions to redundancies and dismissals.

Shrewd, inventive and ingenious, interior designers visualise and design indoor spaces. They play with volumes, materials and light to create functional, comfortable and aesthetic interiors.

In a musician’s hands, an instrument can come to life. Perfectionists and creative types, a good musician only needs to play a few notes to reel us in, make us dream, dance, sing and cry.

Sometimes known as yield managers, revenue managers play around with pricing levels to try to sell as many tickets or services as possible.

As digital and technological experts, IT project managers take the lead from the moment their colleague or customer first expresses their needs all the way through to the systems being introduced and signed off. Their typical projects generally include the following three stages.

The right to housing is an inherent one, as mentioned in several international agreements and constitutions. And that’s exactly what housing officers are tasked with.

Criminal Minds, Mindhunter... most of us are familiar with FBI profilers thanks to a never-ending supply of American television series, but we’re perhaps not so used to criminologists, specialist professionals with a vast set of skills.

Let there be light! Theatre performances, film shoots, urban lighting installations, exhibitions and concept stores: just a few of the places where lighting designers use their art to create atmosphere, visual effects and feelings.

We all have adverts or slogans that stick in our minds... and that means a creative director somewhere has done their job properly! A key role within communications agencies, they offer their creative vision and oversee teams.

Palaeontologists seek to understand living creatures of the past by studying their fossils. Tyrannosaurus teeth, mammoth tusk or perhaps even a plant fossil? There really is something for everyone!

What would happen if you forgot to get your deeds of sale, your will, or some other important document notarised by a professional? Well, it would be worth nothing. Nada. Zilch. You’d probably need to shred it and start all over again. As public officials, notaries play a key role with life’s important paperwork.

Occupying a highly strategic role, financial controllers oversee the accounting for their entire company: everything goes across their desk (well, across their spreadsheets).

The word oenologist comes from the Ancient Greek for wine, oînos, plus the suffix -ology, meaning the study of something. They’re the people who oversee and coordinate wine production and guarantee its quality.