Audit your LMI skills here!

18-October-2006

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The IER team are involved in putting together an online module to help careers practitioners develop their skills in using Labour Market Information effectively as part of a career guidance process. This is very much 'work in progress' at the moment, and will link to the NGRF Future Trends website content.

Using Labour Market Information Effectively within IAG
On-line module for practice

To give you a bit of context, the overall aim of the module is ‘To develop the ability to access, understand and manipulate Labour Market Information (LMI) as part of effective career guidance.'  It is planned that this module will address the following themes - though please note that the structure may evolve in response to your feedback:

1. The nature of LMI and its role in career guidance
2. The changing labour market: key issues for guidance
3. LMI for guidance: locating sources
4. LMI for guidance: choosing between sources
5. Different approaches to using LMI as part of the career guidance process

The example that you can link to here, The Practitioner's LMI Competency Audit is just one small part of the module.  It is intended to allow you to reflect on what you already know in relation to LMI and what you might need to know.  

Please remember this is work in progress! Ultimately a user will be able to save their responses to this 'audit' in their own personalised web-space, and reflect on what action needs to be taken to address any areas for development.  At the moment, your answers will not be saved, so you may wish to print out your work if you would like to keep it.

At this stage it would be really helpful if you could:

Go to this link

http://www.guidance-research.org/Members/lucymarris/competence_check

  1. work through the screens as you see fit! 
  2. How long (approximately) did you spend exploring and working on this audit?
  3. First impressions (visually) - any ideas on how to improve the visual impact/ or suggestions for appropriate images are very welcome 
  4. First impressions (content)
  5. Scope of the competencies listed - any glaring omissions
  6. Please indicate in what ways the exercise was interesting or useful
  7. Please highlight any problems or frustrations
  8. Please add any reflections on your use of LMI that came up as a result of the exercise
  9. Any additional comments or thoughts

Your comments however brief or comprehensive will be of enormous value in creating what we hope will be a valuable resource for guidance practice.  You will need to join the site and log in to use the reply feature to respond.  Enjoy!


Lucy Marris; 18-October-2006 14:15:51; forum (4) help

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1 lmi audit

found the audit interesting tool and can hopefully incorporate it into professional log and portfolio
Georgina Azeez, 19-October-2006 16:20:17 forum / discussion

2 LMI Audit

I spent 15 mins on this audit. I found the exercise useful as it made me think about where my skills are at the moment. I am not working in a guidance agency at the moment so it was hard to apply the answers to a real situation.
Helen Pearson, 19-October-2006 16:23:56 forum / discussion

3 Feedback on skills audit

Been asked to give feedback on completing audit
Interesting exercise.......
jenny bimrose, 19-October-2006 16:24:07 forum / discussion

4 feedback

I will have to spend more time looking at this the LMI audit befor being able to comment. It would be great to do an online module on this area. In general, the website looks very very helpful.Something of a relief to see all this information gathered together. Thank you.
corinnatill, 19-October-2006 16:35:34 forum / discussion

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