In today’s Shedding Light on the Labour Market, we take a look at the latest Claimant Count, Furlough and Job Postings data across the UK, but with particular emphasis on the English LEP regions and devolved nations. Beginning with Claimant Counts, the first thing to say is that across the UK as a whole, […]
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UK Skills Match: A Skills-Based Prototype Tool For Careers and Employability Advisers
Our belief is that the key problem driving the skills gap is a disconnect between the way people, employers and education providers define and communicate skills terms to one another. To overcome this, we have created a Language of Skills that helps us better define: The skills people have The skills employers need The […]
Looking Ahead to Recovery
It’s now almost a year since Britain was first placed under Lockdown, and since then we’ve been focused on little else. As state and society have sought to mitigate the risk of Covid-19, the labour market has seen unprecedented disruption. Between March and December last year, the government paid for 1.53bn working days not […]
How Employer Demand Has Changed Across the UK’s Regions Over the Last Year
In this piece, we take a look at how employer demand for occupations has changed over the last 12 months, with particular focus on the nations and regions of the UK. We’ll also take a brief look at some of the latest furlough data, to give a bit more context to what is happening […]
Growth Opportunities for Gender Diversity in the Graduate Labour Market
Hunting around occupations by their demographics in Emsi’s online data tool, Analyst, it becomes clear that some so-called “high-skilled” or “graduate” jobs (i.e. SOC1-3) are more populated by women, such as Nursing and Midwifery Professionals (88% female) and Managers and Proprietors in Health and Care Services (83% female), and others by men, like Engineering […]
Introducing Emsi Titles — a Major Expansion of Our Job Titles Library — as Part of Our Annual Data Update.
When was the last time you met a Knocker-Upper? How about a Catchpole? The chances are you have never come across anyone with these job titles, nor are you likely to, since they have been obsolete for a good many years. The Knocker-Upper, who was employed to go around the neighbourhood in the early hours […]
Tracking Employer Demand for Higher and Technical Skills
The recent Post-16 White Paper — Skills for Jobs — places significant emphasis on higher technical skills (levels 4 and 5), with plans for reform, including a new approval system based on employer-led standards. As the Paper notes, whilst these skills are increasingly in-demand, this is not currently being met by sufficient supply, which […]
