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Get the right skills and qualifications

How much do you know about labour market information and how to use it to help you get the right skills and qualifications? Do our quiz to find out.

  1. Labour market information tells you about the world of work and the job market.
  2. Labour market information doesn't help you with your career planning.
  3. It's worth looking at labour market information despite the recent 'credit crunch'.
  4. Labour market information won't help you prepare for working life.

What next?

Find labour market information for a job that interests you.

Tool kit

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Employers want people with STEM skills - science, technology, engineering and maths. Find out more at www.futuremorph.org opens new window and jobs4u opens new window.

Hot tip

Sharpen your modern foreign language skills - firms with global markets want people with good conversational skills.

Entering a competitive area

Rowan wants a career in the video games industry.

See how he's preparing