Understanding labour markets with Andrew Wright

Careers in Your Ears

We talk to Andrew Wright, Head of Employer Engagement, in the Careers & Employability team at King's College London. We're hearing a lot about recession and unemployment in the news everyday. This can be disheartening for anyone who is job hunting. We ask Andrew for his perspective on current labour markets which interest researchers from academia through to the creative industries. Andrew encourages us to look beyond the headlines and understand what's going on in different sectors in a more nuanced way.

Here are the resources which Andrew refers to in the podcast:

• Virtual work experience: https://keats.kcl.ac.uk/mod/page/view.php?id=3322146
• Self employment and freelancing (with link to IPSE membership for King's PhDs): https://keats.kcl.ac.uk/mod/page/view.php?id=3221799
• Charlie Ball's blog on labour markets: https://highpeakdata.wordpress.com/author/highpeakcharlie/. You can also find his updates and other helpful articles here: https://luminate.prospects.ac.uk/
• EMSI: https://www.economicmodeling.com/

[This episode was recorded in August 2020]