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The nature of LMI and its role in career guidance
The Nature of LMI and its role in Career Guidance
Go ThereAn understanding of Labour Market Information (LMI) is widely accepted as being a fundamental knowledge requirement for those involved in delivering guidance services to practice effectively. Just have a look at some job specs for the role for confirmation. Yet, how often do we pause to really reflect on why that is and how we use it?
This section is intended to encourage you to think about what sorts of LMI you value in your work and why. Concerned with the Nature of LMI and its role in career guidance, this section is a good place to start to give some context to working with LMI!
Contents: The Nature of LMI
- Introduction
- LMI in the context of policy and practice:
- Case studies: what sort of LMI do clients find useful?
- Quotes on LMI (quote cloud)
- LMI glossaries - getting to grips with LMI jargon
- Take the LMI Jargon Quiz
- Do the LMI Card-Sort Activity
Linked Content:
- Case studies : Recognising and applying frameworks in practice
- Background Resources:
- LMI Matters! Understanding labour market information
- What is Effective Guidance?
- Realising the Potential: a review of the future role of further education colleges
- Realising the Potential - Summary Report
- Skills in the UK: the long-term challenge
- National Skills Academies Prospectus
- Leitch Review of Skills: Prosperity for all in the global economy - world class skills
- ASW Consulting Services (2004) Scoping the National Resource Services
- Labour Market and course information - position paper for skillset
Activities: What can I do here?
Discussions linked to this section content:
Learning Outcomes: What can I learn here?
If you work through all the content and features in this section you should be able to:
- Explain the distinction between Labour Market Information and Labour Market Intelligence
- Describe why LMI is important to policy and practice
- Identify the types of LMI regarded as useful by practitioners and their clients
- Define terms commonly used in LMI
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