All our students and parents have access to high-quality information about future study options and labour market opportunities.

What is Labour market information ? 

Career and Labour Market Information includes information on future study options as well as information on jobs and the labour market. 

Video 1 (link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmuFBlhLZqk)

Video 2 (link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSDd6re92TY)

What information does it include? 

• Skills, career pathways and progression routes in the local labour market

• Job applications and interviews

• Educational institutions, courses, qualifications, entry requirements and costs

• Professional bodies

• Employment sectors, employers, jobs, salaries and employment trends

• Jobs, training and apprenticeships

• Job demands and working life

• Financial planning

We encourage our parents to access and use the information about labour markets and future study options to support their children.

Lealands arranges for our students to gain information first-hand through encounters with employers. We also advertise local labour market information to help students, parents and staff understand the changing labour market in their area. This is advertised in this section and at parents evenings, other school events and staff CPD training sessions. 

We believe by having access and learning from career and labour market information our students and their families will:-

1.  Be helped to connect to a different future and raise aspirations. 

2. Gain the knowledge to put their plans into action.  Lealands and parents can help to provide detailed information about progression routes, relevant courses and employers and useful networks strengthens their capacity to make effective choices and transitions.

3. Be updated about new and developing routes and pathways, such as technical levels in occupational areas and the continued expansion of apprenticeships.

4. Have strong digital skills to make good use of online information about career exploration, making applications, self-presentation and professional networking.

Key Decision Points in school 

Year 9 - GCSE options and exploring careers

Year 11 - Post 16 study options 

Some useful Labour market resources below ... 

1. National Careers Service Site - This site offers around  800 job profiles and can help illustrate careers activities and offer online guidance for young people. (link -https://nationalcareers.service.gov.uk/explore-careers)

2. With the below links you  will be able to obtain the labour market summaries for your LEP area. These will provide useful information on major employers and sectors and developing trends.

South East of England (link - https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/483151/LMI_Summary_-_South_East__Final_.pdf)

3. LMI for All is an online data portal that connects and standardises existing sources of high quality,reliable LMI. (link - https://www.lmiforall.org.uk/)

4.  Use the Careerometer Widget 9 (Link - http://www.lmiforall.org.uk/widget/) move widget here

5.  Nomis is your one-stop shop for labour market information. The summary pages provide key trend data about our local area. (link- http://www.nomisweb.co.uk/reports/localarea?compare=E05002210,E06000032,E92000001)

6. I Could provides 1,000 different video clips of LMI and personal career stories to help students explore different career routes and pathways. (link- https://icould.com/information-for-parents/)

7. Get In Go Far is the government portal for information about apprenticeships, with a linked website to find live apprenticeship vacancies. (link- https://www.getingofar.gov.uk/)

8. Amazing Apprenticeships provides free talks and guidance to schools via the Apprenticeship Support Knowledge service (ASK). (link - https://amazingapprenticeships.com/)

9. National Careers Week provides a range of posters,inspirational quotes and links to the Royal Bank of Scotland Kickstart resources.(link -https://nationalcareersweek.com/ncw-2019-student-profile/)

10. This government tool allows you to use your postcode to search for courses and qualifications available in your local area. (link - https://www.gov.uk/courses-qualifications)

11. Office for students England helps you identify the Single Points of Contact in your Higher Education Networks, along with local outreach events such as summer schools and advice and information on progression.(link - https://www.officeforstudents.org.uk/)

12.  Federation for Industry Sector Skills & Standards provides free, sector-specific careers information for young people through the network of Sector Skills (link- https://fisss.org/sector-skills-council-body/directory-of-sscs/)

Throughout their time at Lealands, our students will have access to information on different jobs and occupations, and on the labour market at local, regional, national and international levels. 

 Key terms our students need to know... 

Key Terms	Explanation
Curriculum Vitae (CV)	A document used to communicate your skills, qualifications and experience to potential employers.
Employment	A relationship between two parties (an employer and an employee) An employee gives up their time to do a job in exchange for money. You can also be self employed this is when you earn money without an employer.
Labour Market	The world of work is like a marketplace. Employers are buying employees and employees and selling their time and labour.
Occupation	This describes a type of job or series of closely related jobs.
Recruitment	The process of finding employees to fill vacancies
Salary	A regular payment made to someone for the work that they do.
Sector	The type of organisation you work for .
Trends	Economists look at what happens in the past to make a guess about what might happen in the future.
Work	This term describes anything that an individual does which takes their time and energy. This is different from employment as we are not always paid for work.