We are partnered with SEMLEP (The South East Midlands Local Enterprise Partnership) to share opportunities available to both pupils and parents/carers. You can find a range of information about news, open days, volunteering, workplace experiences and useful resources on their Padlet:

 

Career Spotlight: Job of the Week

Each week we will share MyPath’s Job of the Week to give you a flavour of the variety of career paths available.

Labour Market Information

LMI is data about jobs and industries that helps us understand the economy.  It is a useful tool to help research future jobs in the local area, understand the skills needed for certain roles and the demand for future employment.

LMI helps people explore and investigate key aspects of a particular area of employment including:

• The sectors, industries and businesses that operate
• 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 at local resources:

Labour Market Information January 2024

LMI for all Careerometer:

Careerometer can be used to explore and compare key information about occupations, help you learn about different occupations and identify potential careers.
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.

Simply type in the title of the job you are interested in and the widget provides 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.

Useful links:

LMI for all – www.lmiforall.org.uk

The LMI for All portal provides high quality, reliable labour market information (LMI) to inform careers decisions.

Nomis – www.nomisweb.co.uk

is a service provided by the Office for National Statistics, ONS, to give you free access to the most detailed and up-to-date UK labour market statistics from official sources. You can select a specific area, such as Cambridgeshire, to find local information.

ONS – www.ons.gov.uk

The Office of National Statistics provides data on People in and out of work covering employment, unemployment, types of work, earnings, working patterns and workplace disputes. Each month they also publish a Labour market overview, UK.