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Key Approaches to Labor Market Assessment:
An Interactive Guide
Module 6: Alignment
Once the work has been done to gather and analyze information on the economic and demographic context of a labor market, current and potential demand for skills, the nature and availability of labor supply, the systems within which the labor market is operating, and the relevant policies, it is up to the user to make sense of the results and draw out the key findings to provide actionable intelligence relevant to the specific context. Jump to the full Module 6.
Assessments may be undertaken in a variety of different contexts, so we will not attempt to give guidance on specific steps to bring all the pieces together. It is, however, best practice to communicate any results and findings back to participants and other relevant stakeholders. This will help avoid survey fatigue and go a long way to ensuring that the information in the assessment is absorbed and used.
Especially if multiple labor market assessments are being carried out in the same place over time, validating and ground-truthing results with respondents, and continuing to update them on how the information is being used, can result in much richer and more valuable findings.
Examples of FHI 360 implemented-analyses using the Labor Market Assessment Framework:
- USAID’s Advance program conducted LMAs to evaluate the gap between technical education offerings and labor market needs and improve the capacity of target tertiary technical institutions. The analysis evaluated the following priority sectors:
Guatemala - agriculture, tourism, processed food and beverages, and textiles
Honduras - coffee, tourism, textiles and health services
Jamaica - tourism, agribusiness and creative industries
- Morocco (USAID Career Center) Industry analyses in three regions to support career center staff to assess local labor market opportunities and continually improve the services they provide to students.