Research OnlineScotland’s Labour Market Intelligence Hub

Ashley Rhymer and Mark SteellSkills Development Scotland

9 March 2012

Skills Development Scotland

Contents 1. Background

2. How it works

3. New features

4. Questions

Skills Development Scotland

• Make it work for SDS

Scotland’s Labour Market Intelligence Hub• Managed by the Skills

Development Scotland Evaluation and Research team

• SDS’ principal

contribution to the LMI Framework

• SDS has made a number of enhancements

• Now includes Careers-related material

Skills Development Scotland

Access via SDS’ corporate websitehttp://www.skillsdevelopmentscotland.co.uk/knowledge.aspx

• IDOX Information Solutions maintain and host the site

• Content includes journal articles, abstracts of books, reports and grey literature

• Legacy – all seminal material since 2001

• Scans over 100 websites and 100 journals

• Updated regularly – with fortnightly alerts

• Almost 10,000 items on the hub

• Research and analysis from around the world

• Free to contribute, free to use

Skills Development Scotland

• Choose to be alerted to specific topics or all newly added material

• Topics include • careers, • education and lifelong

learning, • skills and VET, • economy and

population, • enterprise, • unemployment, • employment, • equality and pay

• Choose the frequency of your alerts

Skills Development Scotland

Search box/remote window for partner sites

• Now available on the following websites:

• SDS, • Scottish Qualifications Aut

hority and

• Improvement Service

• Coming soon on the Highlands and Islands Enterprise website

• Search box can be installed on any partner website.

• Contact us for more information.

For more information

contact

Ashley Rhymer

Labour Market Researcher

Skills Development Scotland

ashley.rhymer@sds.co.uk

0141 228 2564

Research OnlineScotland’s Labour Market Intelligence Hub