Labour Market Information

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

The sectors,industries and businesses that operate there
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 local resources.

Take time to reflect on your own understanding:

How up-to-date are you?
How much has changed since your family went to university?
What routes are there other than university?

It’s no longer safe to assume that if a young person has not achieved straight A* GCSE and A level results they can rule out medicine or veterinary science.

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 – we know that it helps them recognise that paths are not necessarily linear and throw up some unexpected career choices.

Why is LMI Important to Young People?

‘It is vital, in an environment where new industries are emerging and many of the most important jobs of the future don’t yet exist, that individuals have access to high-quality labour market information and earnings data to underpin their choices’. Anne Milton MP

Have you looked at some of these useful websites?

Top 10 Jobs in Kent & East Sussex: https://www.cxk.org/resources/top-10-jobs-in-kent-2/

Start in Kent & Medway: https://kent.startprofile.com/page/kent-districts (SELEP Growth Targets and “Indeed” job vacancy information – updated once, every two terms)

SELEP: https://www.southeastlep.com/

SELEP Districts Table Report: Microsoft Word – LEP Skills and Employment district tables.docx (southeastlep.com)

SELEP wide Economy and Skills Report: Microsoft Word – South East LEP wide Economy and Skills report.docx

SELEP Road to Recovery: South-East-LEP-Road-to-Recovery-2021.pdf

Highstreet LMI Postcode Checker: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63799670