In the seventh of a series of podcasts about our work at the Institute for Employment Research, Pamela Suzanne talks about her doctoral research, which is looking at the work-role transition experience of business professionals. In her research, she focuses on how Argentinean MBA graduates, who are making a career transition and are starting a new role, acquire the required skills, develop new social relations and construct their dynamic professional identities.

The Nominet Trust has published a state of the art review undertaken by IER on Employment and the Internet. The report provides a baseline of data around employment and digital technology, mapping emerging employment patterns that may provide opportunities to rethink how we address current levels of unemployment and underemployment.

The report is available to download from the Nominet website.

In the sixth of a series of podcasts about our work at the Institute for Employment Research, Professor Alan Brown talks about the role of learning in developing career adaptability at work. He reports on a qualitative evaluation of 64 adults’ career biographies in the UK and Norway undertaken for the UK Commission for Employment and Skills.For more on the report go to The role of career adaptability in skills supply

IER has pioneered labour market assessment and forecasting work in the UK, and remains at the forefront of employment forecasting with an international reputation for the quality of its work.

The 100^th IER Bulletin summarises the findings of Working Futures 2010-2020, the fourth in a series of labour market assessments that provide detailed projections for the UK labour market. It focuses on a ten year horizon, giving a picture of the labour market for 2020; including employment prospects for industries, occupations, qualification levels, gender and employment status for the UK and for nations and English regions. The core purpose of Working Futures is to inform policy development and strategy around skills, careers and employment.

The wordle below illustrates the key words used in the Bulletin.

For further information on IER Forecasting, contact Rob Wilson (r.a.wilson@warwick.ac.uk; 02476 523530)

We’d like to extend a warm invitation to the final ESRC seminar in the series on careers, which will be hosted by the Nottingham Trent University, on Wednesday, 20th June, 2012. The provisional title of the seminar is: ‘Learning from others’. Presenters will include:

• Dr Mary McMahon, University of Queensland, Australia and Professor Mark Watson, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa – ‘Crafting Identities: Learning, Curiosity and Career Guidance’
• Professor Vic Lally, University of Glasgow – ‘Inter-Life Project (Where Second Life Meets Real Life)’
• Yasmina Mallam-Hassam, Global Career Company – ‘Improving international student employability’

For more information go to the IER project webpage. If you are interested in attending, please contact sally-anne.barnes@warwick.ac.uk.