We are delighted to announce the release of an exciting new report, which we have produced for the South Central Institute of Technology (SCIoT) to shed some light on the labour market for digital skills in the area. Created by a consortium led by Milton Keynes College, and including leading brands such as Microsoft, KPMG, […]
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Response Tracker: A New Tool to Help You Understand the Disruption in Your Local Economy
One of the biggest challenges currently facing organisations involved in making decisions relating to the labour market, is simply trying to get some kind of basic understanding of what is going in their local economy. This has been made doubly difficult by the fact that many official government datasets, which might potentially be able to […]
Changing Employer Hiring Activity Throughout the Year Across the Country
In our last Shedding a Light on the Labour Market, we looked at employer job postings since the initial Lockdown restrictions were lifted in June, in terms of demand for particular occupations. In this piece (also published on FE News), we again look at job postings, but this time from the perspective of regional […]
An Analysis of the October Furlough Statistics
The latest release of Government statistics for the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (furlough), throws up a number of interesting insights, some of which we’ll take a look at in this piece. Beginning with the high level overview, we can see in the following chart that the numbers have fallen month-on-month since the height of 8.82 […]
Which Occupations Are Seeing a Growth in Employer Demand?
In today’s Shedding a Light on the Labour Market (also published on FE News), we take a look at something a little more positive than some of the negative headlines we’ve been seeing in connection with the labour market in recent weeks. Although we’ve seen a big increase in Claimant Counts across the country […]
An Analysis of September Claimant Counts
We’ve been tracking the rise in Claimant Counts for the past several months, and have noted the huge rise since the beginning of the year right across the country, albeit the rate of increase since June’s figures has been significantly less than the huge rises in April and May. In the latest figures, we again […]
New Report: Exploring Alternative Talent Pools for Recruiting Employability Professionals
We are delighted to announce the release of the report we wrote about last week, commissioned by Aptem and supported by the Institute of Employability Professionals (IEP), which uses data to explore alternative talent pools for the recruitment of employability professionals. The report is unique in that it uses our Skills Library — a […]
