Career and Labour Market Information

Labour Market Information (LMI) is information which relates to the labour market such as data on employment, wages, qualifications, job openings and working conditions.

There is no point in choosing a career path or job that is in severe decline, or is not available in your chosen geographical area. LMI can help you determine:

• Which industries and sectors are employing people
• What hours, wages and working conditions can realistically be expected
• Which job sectors are growing in the future
• Where there might be opportunities for self-employment or new business development
• Which new skills or qualifications which would greatly improve prospects of gaining employment in a particular industry or sector

Our students have access to a large number of careers resources in school, which provide up-to-date, independent, impartial sources of information about career opportunities, options in further and higher education, employment and much more. These are available in the school Careers Library and online.

As part of our Careers Programme in MGS, our students (and parents) are introduced to a range of useful sources of Careers and Labour Market Information in from Year 8 upwards. These resources include Morrisby Careers and the National Careers Service plus other resources listed below and in our Further & Higher Education and Employment & Apprenticeships sections.

• icould is a careers website with real life career videos and accompanying LMI data.

• Kent labour market information is a good source of labour market information for the Kent & Medway area, providing regional insights into job shortages and high-growth sectors.

• LMI for All is a government funded high quality LMI service that provides reliable information on jobs, salaries, and skills shortages. It also includes useful tools (Careerometer & Skillsometer)that allow users to compare jobs, looking at salaries and working hours, or complete a quiz to find suitable careers.

• Careerpilot is a free, comprehensive online platform providing careers information, advice, and tools for students aged 11–19 (and up to age 20) in the South of England. The Job & Course Search has detailed job profiles and accompanying LMI (salaries, working hours, job prospects etc.)

• Skillsometer: Explore jobs linked to your skills and interests.

• Careerometer: use to explore and compare key information about occupations. It provides access to a selection of UK headline data relating to pay, weekly hours of work and future employment prospects for different occupations, as well as description of the occupation. Enter the title of the job you are interested in to get a series of options from which you can select the most relevant to you. You can then look up another two occupations and compare. You can also select ‘display the UK average’ and compare the information with the occupation you have selected.