Audience
This toolkit has been produced with two particular audiences in mind:
- Policymakers looking to enhance Vocational Education and Training and / or Economic Development polices linked to skills
- Labour market intelligence practitioners (such as LM Observatories)
Policymakers in VET and Economic Development are faced with a growing need for evidence-based policymaking often with shrinking resources and these tools should help them design the best offer for their geography.
Labour market intelligence practitioners are faced with new challenges such as the emergence of big data, new geographies, new forecasting techniques and moves to make VET and other governmental offers more ‘demand-led’ leading to a change in the way many observatories operate. They are becoming less passive and more engaged with both stakeholders and their intended audiences.
The following Tools will meet the specific needs of these audiences:
Economic Development and VET Policymaker Tools
I. The Strategy Formation Process Tool
II. Employer Responsiveness Tool
Labour Market Intelligence Practitioners Tools
IV. What 21st century LMOs are currently actively pursuing and how they interact with policy
V. Supplementary Fundraising Tool
VII. Harnessing the web for skills and employment data Tool
VIII. Public Engagement Tool
IX. Local Labour Market Assessments Tool
X. Employer Responsiveness Tool (as above)
There are also a great many good practices and case studies that are presented thematically and should help in establishing new ways of working or new regional LMI models/approaches. These have been set out with thematic summaries bringing these together under the headings of:
b. Forecasting
c. Sector Specific LMI and Training
d. Social Integration of Disadvantaged People
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