Labour Market Information

LMI is data about jobs and industries that helps us understand the economy.  It is a useful tool to help research future jobs in the local area, understand the skills needed for certain roles and the demand for future employment.

LMI helps students explore and investigate key aspects of a particular area of employment including:

• The sectors, industries and businesses that operate
• The jobs that exist
• The number and type of vacancies available
• The sectors and the industries that are predicted to grow and increase in the coming years.
• Travel to work routes
• The kind of skills that are/will be needed by industries and businesses
• Pay and progression routes.

Interpreting and narrowing down LMI that is applicable to a young person’s needs can become overwhelming, it is therefore better to start researching areas of interest and concentrate on those industries. We also recommend looking at local resources:

We would like to help ensure our students are aware of how their subject and course choices can open career options but can also close them down.

We know that it is crucial that young people need to hear about careers, work and job roles from the ‘experts’ – the people doing those jobs. We encourage students to ask visitors, speakers and employers about their career progression routes to help them recognise paths that are not necessarily linear.

Useful links

LMI for all – www.lmiforall.org.uk

The LMI for All portal provides high quality, reliable labour market information (LMI) to inform careers decisions.

Nomis – www.nomisweb.co.uk

is a service provided by the Office for National Statistics, ONS, to give you free access to the most detailed and up-to-date UK labour market statistics from official sources. You can select a specific area, such as Cambridgeshire, to find local information.

ONS – www.ons.gov.uk

The Office of National Statistics provides data on People in and out of work covering employment, unemployment, types of work, earnings, working patterns and workplace disputes. Each month they also publish a Labour market overview, UK.

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