Labour Market Intelligence (LMI) is information about a workforce (e.g. age, gender, location, role) that has been analysed and interpreted to make sense of a labour market. The Heritage LMI Toolkit enables the collection, analysis and reporting of labour market information and labour market intelligence across the heritage space for the benefit of the individual, the educator, the employer and society as whole.
Icon developed the Toolkit in 2019 in partnership with the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists, Historic England and Loud Marketing. The Toolkit allows users to carry out LMI research in a systematic and consistent way so that results can be compared across heritage sectors and subsectors. The Toolkit comprises an introduction and guidance on carrying out LMI research and a Modular Survey Template to help users set up their own survey.
Carrying out LMI research, and sharing the results, supports the development and sustainability of the heritage workforce and informs policy and decision-making affecting the heritage sector. This supports employability, economic prosperity, social mobility and inclusion. "We are thrilled to have been able to develop a tool with such significant potential benefit for the sector,” Icon Policy & Communications Manager Anni Mantyniemi commented.
Icon will be using the Toolkit to carry out its own research to gain a comprehensive understanding of the conservation sector’s composition and current challenges and opportunities facing the labour market. We will investigate things like demographics, skills, qualifications, salaries and benefits. The result will be a new labour market intelligence report, expected by summer 2020, free for all members and stakeholders to use.
Access the Toolkit here.
Check out our LMI factsheets here, here and here.
Find out more about the Historic England funded project here.
