How Higher Education can use Job Market Insights
Summary
It’s written to help employers understand growing occupations, in-demand skills, and other emerging trends in the labor market (like the rise of remote work and social impact roles). By paying attention to the challenges employers are facing, and how they plan to adapt, you can help your institution stay ahead of the curve when it comes to building programs that attract learners and prepare them for the future of work. To help you leverage this report, we’ve put together a brief “reader’s guide” that highlights three ways your institution can apply these insights (and labor market data in general). If the flexibility of remote work is important to the populations you serve (either for health and safety reasons or simply as a lifestyle choice) career services professionals can use these insights to offer more holistic guidance that accounts for students’ goals in terms of quality of life, not just earnings. As we highlighted in a recent article on employer engagement, agile institutions can use market data to position themselves as an education partner of choice.