Turn labour market information into Career Guidance
Labour market information becomes useful when practitioners can interpret it, assess its quality and connect it with an individual learner’s goals. These resources focus on how LMI can be translated into practical guidance and career-learning activities.
Cedefop’s European network of independent experts in lifelong guidance and career development. CareersNet supports knowledge exchange and contributes national and comparative intelligence on guidance policies and systems.
Useful for: following European developments and connecting system-level trends with national practice.
A research study on the role of LMI in career guidance and career education. It examines how guidance can help people access, understand and use labour market information, and addresses LMI quality, technology, stakeholder cooperation and practitioner skills.
Useful for: understanding the practitioner’s role as a bridge between labour market evidence and individual career decisions.
A short, highly visual example from Egypt showing how official labour market statistics can be converted into guidance-friendly information on growing sectors, occupations, graduate employment and self-employment.
Useful for: seeing how complex labour market statistics can be selected, simplified and presented in a form that supports education and career decisions.
A methodological guide to using LMI for anticipating and matching skills supply and demand. It covers data sources, analysis, interpretation, dissemination and the use of evidence by policy-makers, institutions, businesses and the public.
Useful for: building a deeper understanding of where LMI comes from, what it can and cannot show, and how different evidence sources can be combined.