Raising aspirations: An intelligent Labour Market Approach

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Raising aspirations An intelligent Labour Market
Approach

• The Youth Labour Market in England A Changing
  Landscape of Opportunity?
• ICG LMI Symposium,
• The Hilton Hotel, Blackpool,
• 4th November, 2009
• Professor Jenny Bimrose
• Jenny.Bimrose_at_warwick.ac.uk

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Using LMI Effectively

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

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LMI for Practice

• Knowledge understanding
• of how the labour market
• functions is central for high quality, impartial
  IAG.
• Crucial for raising aspirations by enabling us to
  make sense of changing economic
• circumstances

LMI
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LMI for Practice

• ...and attracting a
• much higher
• policy profile..

LMI
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Increased profile of LMI

• Leitch Review
• Quality Standards for YPs IAG
• Economic well-being work- related curriculum
• Diploma Gateway
• Quality, Choice Aspiration

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Quality, Choice Aspiration

• The IAG Guarantee
• Young People in Schools are entitled to
• Impartial information, advice guidance about
  learning work options
• (p.15)

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Quality, Choice Aspiration

• Impartial LMI
• Challenging stereotypes (p.12)
• Primary education (p.22)
• Parents (p.25)
• ICT (p.39)
• Careers education (p.16)

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Quality, Choice Aspiration

• .we will improve the links between Connexions
  Direct and the labour market information on
  Sector Skill Council websites (p.39)
• The Connexions service can provide schools with
  help in accessing appropriate local national
  LMI (p.22)

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LMI for Practice

• So - what is it?

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What is LMI?

• LMI comes from a range of sources and includes
• information on general employment trends
• (i.e. unemployment rates skills gaps future
  demand)
• data on the structure of the labour market
• (i.e. what jobs exist, how many, which sectors)
• information about the way the labour market
  functions
• (i.e. how people get into jobs move between
  employers)
• data focusing on equality and diversity
• (i.e. which individuals are employed in
  different sectors and at what levels?)

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Defining LMI

• Labour market information
• data from a range of sources
• Labour market intelligence
• interpretation of labour market information
• Ref DfES (2004) LMI Matters! Understanding
  labour market information, Nottingham DfES, p.11.

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Imagine a scenario...........

• Im

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LMI key challenges for practice

• Identify (whats relevant?)
• Retrieve (where from?)
• Interpret (whats its meaning?)
• Mediate (for what purpose?)
• Disseminate (who is it for?)

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LMI Decision-making

• Traditionally, career decision-
• making has been regarded as a
• rational, linear process
• Information gathering
• Analysis
• Making a choice

i.e. the matching approach to guidance
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Matching at the heart of CEIAG?

• Matching assumes a degree of stability in the
  labour market
• Trying to place an evolving
• person into the
• changing work environment ... is like trying to
  hit a butterfly with a boomerang (p.263)
• Ref Mitchell, L.K. Krumboltz, J.D. (1996)
  Krumboltzs learning theory of career choice and
  counseling, in Brown, D., Brooks, L.
  Associates (Eds) Career Choice and Development
  (3rd Ed), San Francisco, California, Jossey Bass.

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Using LMI effectively in CEIAG

• Crucial elements
• Skills strategies
• Frameworks for practice
• Principles of good practice
• Sources of high quality, impartial LMI

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Using LMI to Raise Aspirations Support for
practitioners?
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LMI resources for impartial CEG

• LMI Learning online module http//www.guidance-r
  esearch.org/lmi-learning
• and
• National Guidance Research Forum
• www.guidance-research.org

Jenny Bimrose 2007
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On-line LMI Learning Resourcewww.guidance-researc
h.org/lmi-learning
Module aim To develop the ability to access,
understand and manipulate Labour Market
Information (LMI) as part of effective career
guidance
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Research Innovation

• Connexions companies involved as end users
  guiding the development of the IT systems
• Connexions Kent Medway
• Connexions Northumberland
• CfBT

ICT systems to support practitioners in their use
of LMI
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Research Innovation

• Wikki based system to support the collaborative
  development of LMI
• Search LMI
• Mark and store for future use
• Create or edit material ( adapt)
• Improve and discuss the material
• Reflective practice
• Competence development
• Connects practitioners
• Identifies skill gaps
• Supports the development of professional capacity

ICT systems to support practitioners in their use
of LMI
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Raising Aspirations
Using an intelligent labour market approach to
practice? A Priority! Thank you