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Weblog | 15 entries | 04-April-2007 | 4 authors |
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The role of LMI in guidance
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Blog Entry | 10 replies | 28-February-2005 | Lucy Marris |
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Discussion Topic | 1 reply | 03-Mar-2005 | Anthony Fitzgerald |
I am a full-time QCG student currently on placement at a university careers service. I am currently researching engineering and opportunities for women to form part of a labour market journal article. I have spoken to lots of colleagues about their views on labour market information.
I have enjoyed the sessions I have had during my course on the labour market. It seems key to my training that I have an overview or understanding of labour market issues and that I know how to find out about labour market information. This I feel is as important as my skills base. During my connexions placement many advisers were concerned that they had no time to keep abreast with labour market information; they still felt it was important. My own view is that the raw data is of little use to our clients and that my skill is in interpreting the labour market to clients if the need arises. Talking to my colleagues on placement here, they believe it to be key in informing academics on employability of their courses and advising on employment outcomes for potential new courses. With the proliferation of courses (such as Media!) that have questionable employment prospects I rest my case. I was surprised to hear from one of our LMI speakers that many QCG courses are not interested in LMI. I am pleased I did not apply to do my QCG at these establishments.
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The role of LMI in Guidance | Discussion Topic | 0 replies | 03-Mar-2005 | Graham Allan |
I'd like to echo some of the comments emerging in this discussion on LMI.
LMI decidedly does feature in our our QCG training programme here at the University of Paisley - its the basis of our students' research module and involves them in undertaking web-based reseach (thankfully we now have the NGRF and in Scotland we have a national LMI site at www.futureskillsscotland.org.uk) and structured interviews or focus groups in the field. We have plans to include abstracts from these research projects on the Careers Scotland web site. The ability to access, understand and make effective use of LMI in guidance is what distinguishes guidance practitioners from them woman or man in the street or the 'bloke down the pub'!
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