appendix 1: Teacher RESOURCES
ResourceS: SECTION 2
Labour Market Information Portal
LMIP – Reflection activity – discussion questions to help students
to reflect on what this information means for their future.
Looking at the top increase occupations - why do you think this
is so?.
Australian Jobs publication
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a. Could be: health, aged care (increase in ageing
population)
2. Discuss in groups why the decrease in assembly and factory
workers is in existence?
a. Could be: advances in technology, less need for people
working in these areas.
3. Students to work to come up with other lists of increase/
decrease areas in occupations and explain to the class/group
why this is.
Skill shortages
Informational Interviewing:
Skill shortages
1. Ask students to create a list of questions to interview someone.
2. Plan the interview:
a. Who.
b. When.
c. How (phone, in person, skype).
d. Conduct interview.
3. Give responses back to class to share learnings.
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