Objectives:

On completion of this module, users will be able to:

1. access and use LMI effectively and efficiently
2. critically evaluate different sources of LMI
3. explain the impact of labour market changes on their work with clients

Resource Content

Crucially the content here is not Labour Market Information as such – there is plenty of this around most significantly on the NGRF Future Trends Website.  Instead, the focus has been to generate content for the module resource that encourage engagement with existing materials in the public domain.  These contents can be worked through in any sequence.  This pick and mix approach allows you to select those parts most applicable to your role.  In the module you will find the following tools and themes:

LMI Competency Audit - A tool for self assessment

Although the module as a whole can be worked through in any sequence a useful entry point for many is the LMI Competency Audit.  This encourages users to reflect on their existing skills, knowledge and expertise in relation to LMI in practice.  By working through the quick quiz you can identity for yourself those areas you would particularly like to develop – and get some concrete suggestions of how to go about it!  Link here for the LMI Competency Audit

The nature of LMI and its role in Career Guidance 

This section includes materials concerning ‘what is the purpose of LMI and why we should bother with it’.  As such, it provides a rationale for the module.  Link here for the section on the Nature of LMI

The changing Labour Market – key issues for guidance

How to differentiate between labour market information and intelligence; understanding the complexity and rapidity of change within the labour market, and exploring aspects of disadvantage and inequalities in the Labour Market.  Link here for the section on The Changing Labour Market.

Locating Sources of LMI

Get some help with navigating the major resource for LMI as represented by the National Guidance Research Forum website Future Trends section.  Link here for the section on Locating Sources of LMI.

Choosing between sources of LMI

This section consider how to identify new and additional potential resources of robust LMI appropriate for their particular context. Link here for the section on Choosing between sources of LMI.

Frameworks for practice

Putting LMI into a theoretical context.  Some commonly identified ways of using LMI and the relative appropriateness of those different approaches are explored.  How LMI is used often reflects a conscious or unconscious approach to guidance.  Are you as the practitioner an ‘expert’  or an ‘enabler’ and what might your prefer to be?  Link here for the section on  Frameworks for practice .

Implementing good practice

This part of the module gives guidelines on how to work effectively with employers and other opportunity providers.  It considers how to make an initial approach, how to conduct an effective interview and how to record and disseminate the findings of any employer visit.  Link here for the section on Implementing good practice.