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Information is current and accurate
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Inclusion of teaching materials
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Information not marketing
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Information about labour market trends
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Using your own judgement, choose your top ten criteria and rate them on the matrix provided, 1 being the most significant and 10 being the least, for each of the client groups. You can give some equal ranking if you wish. There is no right or wrong answer, these are all characteristics of good information, but there are some general notes to read on completion of the exercise here
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Having completed the exercise, reflect on the experience. How easy or difficult was it to do? Were there any characteristics that you felt were missing from the list? Will it affect the way you view careers information sources? Note down any thoughts that want to keep.
Now we have considered the characteristics of good careers information, let's move on to look at Top sources of careers information for the energy and utilities industries.