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LMI-Learning is being developed by the Institute for Employment Research , University of Warwick, together with KnowNet. Financial support has come from the Sector Skills Development Agency.

Introduction

LMI Matters!

It's been said that...

When someone receives good labour market information that leads to a good decision, it benefits the individual, the employer and the economy.
From DfES (2004) LMI Matters! Understanding labour market information, DfES, Nottingham, p.2

Whilst clearly careers guidance is about a lot more than 'just' providing labour market information, insider knowledge about the labour market is one of the aspects of career guidance that users find of most value1. Anyone directly involved in delivering information, advice and guidance concerning career will no doubt be able to think of a number of recent examples of how they use LMI in their work. The interesting thing is that often the information is in itself not all that helpful. Raw data and facts need to be applied to individuals' particular situations to be of use. When talking about LMI perhaps it is more helpful to think in terms of labour market information's more useful sister labour market intelligence.

This section of the LMI Learning module is concerned with the Nature of LMI and its role in career guidance, it's a good place to start to give some context to working with LMI!

Next: LMI in the context of policy and practice

How do practitioners and policymakers make use of Labour Market Information? This section is about the context in which LMI is used.

The Nature of LMI and its role in Career Guidance - discussions

LMI is a huge topic! The 'Nature of LMI' module of the LMI Learning Resource includes discussions relating to LMI jargon, LMI and policy and ideas from practitioners about what LMI they find useful in practice based on a series of case studies.

If you want to browse all the entries for these separate discussions in one place, you can do that by viewing items with the category "nature of LMI". You can add new comments to any of those items, and can also add your own new blog posts on related topics if you wish. Or add a comment to this topic by replying here.

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