SOLAS Skills & Labour Market Research Unit

SLMRU publish infographic paper National Skills Bulletin 2024 This paper summarises the big takeaways from the National Skills Bulletin. The main report highlights areas of skills and labour demand and identifies occupations in which shortages occur. Click here for full paper https://lnkd.in/erGJ2Z5i

SLMRU publish The National Skills Bulletin 2024 report The National Skills Bulletin 2024 provides an analysis of employment in Ireland. In addition to providing a detailed employment profile of nearly 100 occupations, the report highlights areas of skills and labour demand and identifies occupations in which shortages occur. Click her for full report https://lnkd.in/e9RDDdAz

SLMRU publish Autumn Skills Bulletin 2024 The Autumn Skills Bulletin from the SLMRU reports on the extent of job autonomy amongst workers in Ireland compared to the EU 27 average. Based on data from the EU Labour Force Survey for the year 2022, high job autonomy in Ireland varies by gender, age and education level, as well as by economic sector and occupation. For example, in Ireland: ·        38% of workers aged 55-64 years reported high job autonomy compared to 34% of those aged 25-54 years and just 9% of 15-24-year-olds ·        33% of male workers indicated that they had high job autonomy compared to 29% of female workers ·        37% of those with third level qualifications (ISCED levels 5-8) reported high job autonomy compared to 25% of those with higher secondary/FET qualifications and 26% with at most lower secondary education. See the full report here https://lnkd.in/e86Q26h2

SLMRU publish Summer Skills Bulletin 2024 The latest SOLAS SLMRU publication is our Summer Skills Bulletin 2024 which examines where occupational gender segregation (defined as where there is an unequal distribution of males and females across job roles) is occurring in the Irish labour market. The report highlights that occupational gender segregation is particularly prevalent for occupations experiencing skills shortages and reducing the level of segregation could open up further supply to meet demand.  Click here for full report https://lnkd.in/dH-nhDvb

SLMRU publish Lifelong learning amongst adults in Ireland Quarter 4 2023 report This year’s report looks at the number and share of persons who participated in formal and non-formal learning quarter 4 2023, based on the CSO’s Labour Force Survey. An EU comparison is also provided as well as a summary of the main findings from the CSO’s Adult Education Survey 2022. The report shows that there has been an increase in lifelong learning, driven mainly by growth in the number of females and in the numbers undertaking job-related learning activities. Full report here, https://lnkd.in/eAiXWiy7

SLMRU publish Hospitality Skills in Ireland report. The Hospitality Skills in Ireland report, produced by the SLMRU in SOLAS examines recent employment trends in hospitality jobs in Ireland and incorporates results of Fáilte Ireland’s multi-year research on tourism careers. Click here to read more. https://lnkd.in/e47Ww3XW

SLMRU publish the latest series of Regional Labour Market Profiles; this year’s infographics also include data from CENSUS 2022, providing an analysis by county of Ireland’s labour market.  Click here to find more information on your region. https://lnkd.in/emAXcbwr

SLMRU publish the Monitoring Ireland’s Skills Supply 2023 report The Monitoring Ireland’s Skills Supply 2023 report outlines the potential supply of skills from Ireland’s further and higher education system, and is a companion publication to the National Skills Bulletin. Full report https://lnkd.in/ej4ZFwje Also please find here an Infographic paper which summarises the big takeaways from the Monitoring Ireland's Skills Supply 2023 report https://lnkd.in/ePT2j8Qb

The SLMRU publish Difficult-to-fill vacancies survey November 2023 This paper reports the findings of the Recruitment Agency Survey conducted in November 2023 by the Skills and Labour Market Research Unit (SLMRU) in SOLAS. The survey gathered the views of selected Irish recruitment agencies in respect of vacancies for occupations that require skills which are in short supply, and in their view, are proving difficult to fill. https://lnkd.in/ebScg6MK

The SLMRU publish Winter Skills Bulletin 2023 This report outlines the transversal skills that were in the greatest demand in adverts for jobs in Ireland that were posted online in the 12 months to September 2023. It draws on CEDEFOP’s Online Vacancy Analysis Tool for Europe (OVATE) and shows that transversal skills accounted for well over a quarter of all skills mentioned in online job adverts. The report highlights the most frequently occurring transversal skills, such as ‘adapt to change’ and ‘work in teams’; it then goes on to examine the most relevant detailed occupations for each of the top ten transversal skills, identifying skills that tend to occur across a wide range of occupations as well as those that tend to be particularly relevant for certain occupational families (e.g. finance, engineering, etc.). https://lnkd.in/eeXEpEGK