Labour Market Information

Labour Market Information is a useful resource for career planning. It can help to give you an idea of the amount of and types of jobs available in a particular sector and how those sectors are affected by the economic climate.

Labour Market Information is a useful resource for career planning. It can help to give you an idea of the amount of and types of jobs available in a particular sector and how those sectors are affected by the economic climate.

Resources for labour market research

• Advice resources - Labour Market Information (LMI) provided by the Sector Skills Councils (SSCs)
• Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR) provides results from their bi-annual graduate recruitment survey. Graduate recruiters registered with the AGR are asked to comment on the graduate labour market and graduate labour market statistics are also included in the survey results.
• Graduate Market Trends produced by Graduate Prospects and the Higher Education Careers Service Unit (HECSU) is a quarterly review of the graduate labour market, featuring articles on topical issues, reviews of recent reports, and graduate salary and vacancy surveys.
• Graduates Yorkshire provides news on the Regional Labour Market.

• HECSU (Higher Education Careers Service Unit) research reports

• High Fliers research - The Graduate Market in 2011 annual review of graduate vacancies and starting salaries of Britain's leading employers.
• What Huddersfield graduates do are statistics based on data collected from the Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education (DLHE) Survey each year. Further information on the DLHE survey can be gained from the Higher Education Statistics Agancy (HESA)

• National Guidance Research Forum produces information on labour market information future trends including a broad overview of 29 key sectors.
• Media round up from the Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services (AGCAS).

• Office for National Statistics provides the latest employment; unemployment; economic activity and inactivity; and vacancy data, at regional and sub-regional levels on a monthly basis.

• Sector Skills Councils - each sector skills councils is likely to host LMI specific to their sector. The  Alliance of Sector Skills Councils has a directory of all sector skills councils.
• Salary and vacancy search allows you to search for average salaries and the number of jobs advertised via Graduate Prospects.
• Trades Union Congress (TUC) provides economic and labour market reports in the Economic Issues section.
• Times Higher Education for higher education jobs, news and resources.

• UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES) hosts Employer Perspective Surveys, and links to employment and skills forecasts Working Futures by the Warwick Institute of Employment Research.
• What do graduates do? find out what previous graduates are now doing, how many have jobs, types of jobs and further study. National graduate statistics
• Yorkshire Forward is the regional development agency.
• Yorkshire Futures provides information on research and plans for developing the local economy.