The document discusses the importance of labor market information (LMI) for career development given changes in the modern workforce. It notes challenges in using LMI, like inconsistent data collection and a lack of standardization. The solution presented is an online data portal called LMI for All that aggregates existing national LMI sources into open APIs. It provides two interactive tools - an API and Skillsometer - to help users explore career pathways and skill needs. Effective use of LMI may require combining it with other data sources and developing novel solutions like AI, crowd-sourcing, and gamification. An example is CareerChat, a conversational agent built with labor market professionals to provide localized LMI to users.

1. Using labour market information
for career development in the
changing world of work
Graham Attwell
Pontydysgu and CareerChat

2. Why is LMI important?
Changing world of work
New skill needs
Changing technologies
Impact of automation and AI
Covid 19
Unclear career pathways
Evolution of local labour markets
The move to skills

3. Whats the
challenge?
Data is collected for
economic planning
Sufficiency of data
Data is non standardised
Granularity of data
Relevance of data
Timeliness of data
Quality of data

4. An online data portal which
brings together existing national
sources of high quality, reliable
labour market information (LMI)
An open data project, which
supports the wider government
agenda to encourage use and
re-use of government data sets
A series of open APIs free for
use by any organisation

5. Data sources
The LMI for All API

6. The LMI for All API

7. LMI may be most effective when
mashed together with other
artefacts and data

10. <iframe src="https://www.lmiforall.org.uk/cm2/index.html"
width="900" height="460"></iframe>

11. Skillsometer
<iframe src=”//www.lmiforall.org.uk/cm3/widget.html” height=”310″ width=”700″
scrolling=”no” frameborder=”0″></iframe>
https://www.lmiforall.org.uk/skillsometer/

12. Long-traffic to LMI for All, June – September 2020
Source: LMI for All API Monitoring system, 14/06/20-14/09/20

13. More Issues
Relating education
and training to
occupations
Making sense of data
Moving beyond graphs
The future of jobs:
Covid 19, automation
and AI

14. Novel solutions
Scraping job vacancy software
Crowd sourcing labour market intelligence
Using AI to assess future occupation opportunities
Novel databases tax
Gamification
Nudging
Machines and humans working together
Developing trans disciplinary teams
Codesign of applications
Iterative development of applications

16. Constructing a
vacancy dataset:
Methodology

19. https://careerchat.uk/demo/
Developed as part of
NESTa competition
Access to local labour
market information
LMI provided in reponse
to user dialogue
Co-developed with
labour market
professionals from 3
cities
Designed to complement
work of professional, not
reface them
Available on multiple
devices

20. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhsnkGqLabA
&feature=youtu.be

21. Thank you
for
watching
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