In our previous look at Claimant Counts, we saw that there had been a huge rise in numbers from April to May, and it looked likely that this trend would continue in June, with the number of claimants possibly topping the all-time high since records began in 1971 of 3.09 million in July 1986. […]
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Changing Skills Demand: Identifying Niche Skills in an Area.
In the first part of this series looking at changing skills demand, we considered some of the changes in skills in the UK over the past few years, and more specifically since the beginning of the year. In this piece, we want to go beyond the national landscape, and take a look at skills at […]
Covid-19 Regional Response & Recovery
We’ve put out a lot of data in the past few months, in order to help you get a better understanding of what is happening in the labour market at the national and regional level during this crisis. In particular, we’ve highlighted employer demand through the lens of our Job Posting Analytics, to get a […]
Emsi’s Contribution to a New Report From Campaign for Learning and NCFE: Automation, Covid-19 and the Future of Jobs
This is the second of two contributions we made to a new report from Campaign for Learning and NCFE — Revolutionary Forces: Shaping the Post-16 White Paper — which sets out to identify the forces by which the post-16 education system will be shaped and will need to respond to. The growing economic crisis is […]
How Are the UK’s New Graduates Exposed to the Impact of COVID-19?
According to the new Graduate Outcomes data, over three quarters of graduates go into “graduate” jobs. While the commentary is that during the last few months, high skilled, graduate jobs (i.e. Standard Occupation Classification (SOC) 1-3) have held up well in terms of recruitment compared with low skilled jobs, that is actually not the […]
Emsi’s Contribution to a New Report From Campaign for Learning and NCFE: Declining and Growing Sectors Post Covid-19
This is the first of two contributions we have made to a new report from Campaign for Learning and NCFE — Revolutionary Forces: Shaping the Post-16 White Paper — which sets out to identify the forces by which the post-16 education system will be shaped and will need to respond to. Waiting for economic data […]
Changing Skills Demand: What is Happening Throughout the Nation?
Over the month of June, we’ve been setting out the case for our new Language of Skills — an initiative which is all about helping people define the skills they have, enabling employers to articulate the skills they need, and giving education providers the understanding of which skills they need to be teaching. The […]
