We know the data inside out, have conducted in-depth studies on all aspects of labour markets: immigration, skills shortages, HE, economic inclusion, employers.
Some specific examples as follows:
- Recent experience: Skills and Labour Market Reviews in Hertfordshire (2018, 2016, 2015), Liverpool City Region (2018), Southend-on-Sea (2018)
- Authored London First Report on proposed new post-brexit immigration system (2018)
- Senior leadership experience in designing, managing and delivering labour market and economic intelligence units and functions (since 2001)
- Specific in depth experience working with Labour Market Intelligence Units – at the East of England Development Agency www.insighteast.org.uk (3 years, 6 months), and at Futureskills Scotland, based at Scottish Enterprise (3 years) – www.futureskillsscotland.org.uk
- Specialism in providing labour market intelligence and services to non-technical experts – in a clear, simple language and format
- Part of the team which undertook the scoping research, and stakeholder needs survey for a Scottish Labour Market Intelligence Unit, and then subsequently established the groundbreaking labour market intelligence service at Futureskills Scotland. This unit delivered a fully functioning labour market information and forecasting unit delivering services to the further and higher education sectors, careers service, training agencies, government, and economic development agencies of Scotland
- Transformed the East of England Regional Economic Intelligence System (the Observatory) into a fully staffed intelligence unit with high profile work programme and online data tools and services
- Part of national leadership of UK regional information systems (Deputy Chair and board member of UK Association of Regional Observatories)
- Led the significant improvement of the regional skills analysis framework for England first initiated in 2009. Glenn fundamentally rewrote the initial approach which was based on a list of data sources, transforming it into a market led analytical framework around labour demand and supply
- Analyst and author of range of national reports on labour market issues (11 years)
- In-depth policy knowledge in skills, labour markets and the related policy areas of enterprise, innovation, inward investment and trade (16 years)
- Lead analysis and manager of evidence base for European Regional Development Fund and European Social Fund Programmes in the UK. Presentations to European-funded delegations from Armenia, Turkey, Russia, and the Pascal Observatory
- A gateway to the experts: networked into labour market and skills experts in government, think tanks, and universities