Career and Labor Market Information

By Sandy Donovan
Career information Analyst
iSeek Solutions

Helping your child prepare for a rewarding career may be one of your top goals as a parent. But it's not an easy task, and making sure you have all the resources you need can be challenging.

That's why it's worth spending a little time to get to know labor market information. This term is used to describe the wide variety of available data about occupations, industries, skills, salaries, job openings and more. Having access to updated, local labor market information is a critical part of career planning.

Students can get started using labor market information by taking an assessment. Assessments help students-or anyone-match their interests, talents and values to potential careers.

Next, you and your child can explore potential careers together. Before choosing a career, students can look into the skills, knowledge and abilities needed for certain jobs. They can get a feel for daily work activities and technology used on the jobs. And they can see how many people get hired in that occupation each year, as well as how much they get paid.

Students can then make career decisions based on which jobs most closely match their interests, which ones are in demand, which ones pay the most, and which ones have educational requirements they can meet.

Get started exploring labor market information with the resources on this page.

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