Optimize Your Job Search with the Labour Market Information Council (LMIC)
In this session, we will be discussing what constitutes a labour market, sharing information particular to Canada’s labour market(s) and reviewing important points when leveraging labour market information. To conclude our session, we’ll review some useful LMI tools to support users in different decision-making processes.
Presenter: Lorena Camargo, Principal Researcher
Lorena Camargo contributes to contemporary, forward-looking research projects about labour market issues in Canada. Her expertise includes innovation policy and global markets.
Lorena brings a variety of interdisciplinary skills and lenses to her research from working internationally with different levels of government, as well as the private sector. Prior to joining LMIC, she worked as a research assistant at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy and co-wrote a report on economic development and innovation policy that has since been approved for publication in the Oxford Journals’ Socio-Economic Review.
Lorena is a certified scrum master. In her spare time, Lorena enjoys getting lost in a good book, dance classes, and when possible, travelling.
Presenter: Kashyap Arora, Economist Kashyap Arora is an Economist at LMIC. He contributes to multiple labour market-related projects, including identifying links between education systems and LMI, tracking green economy jobs, and assessing provincial and territorial responses to labour and skills shortages.
Prior to joining LMIC, Kashyap collaborated with organizations and academic institutions, including the University of Cambridge, Consider Canada City Alliance and the Centre for Policy Research – a South Asian think tank.
Kashyap holds a master’s degree in economics and international financial economics from the University of Warwick and a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Delhi.”
About the Labour Market Information Council
The Labour Market Information Council (LMIC) is a not-for-profit organization that was created to address the need for more consistent, reliable and accessible labour market information for Canadians. LMIC works collaboratively across governments and public and private stakeholders to enable a pan-Canadian labour market information ecosystem that empowers Canadians to make more informed decisions in a changing, dynamic world of work through the development of labour market information research publications and interactive tools.