Why LMI? Questioning the role of labour market information in career guidance
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https://doi.org/10.20856/jnicec.5002Keywords:
Career information, Labour market information, Labour market intelligence, Career guidanceAbstract
This article surfaces debate in the literature around the role of labour market information (LMI) in career education and guidance. Building on questions of whether LMI is peripheral or pivotal in career services (Bimrose, 2021) the paper aims to synthesise the argument in the existing literature around LMI. Utilising an approach informed by Bacchi’s What is the problem represented to be? (Bacchi & Goodwin, 2019), the paper asks how and why LMI has been positioned by some interests as central to career interventions, and the implications of this positioning. It also asks whether there are alternative ways of imagining the role of LMI and explores their implications for policy and practice.
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