Bridge the Gap between Learning and Earning
P2C Labor Market Navigator (LMN) turns complex labor market data into clear, actionable insights. By highlighting key trends and regional growth, it empowers educators to make informed decisions that align learning with workforce needs.
Built to make the complicated easy, LMN helps educators fine-tune their programs, partner seamlessly with workforce boards, and better support students on their path to high-value careers.
P2C Labor Market Navigator Features
Regional Insights
Gain a shared understanding of the labor market data within a school district’s primary workforce region.
Explore key demographic and workforce statistics (including gender, age, and education level), to understand trends, potential impacts to funding sources, and prepare for long-term planning.
Connections to Career Clusters
By organizing labor market information around the National Career Clusters® Framework, a classification system widely used by schools and state agencies, P2C Labor Market Navigator identifies high-value careers aligned with industry-validated knowledge and skills students need to thrive.
Key benefits of organizing labor market data by career clusters include:
- Clearer occupational groupings: Careers are categorized by shared education and training requirements, making it easier to discover related opportunities.
- Stronger academic alignment: Understanding career clusters creates a direct link between classroom learning and real-world career paths.
- User-friendly dashboard tools: Intuitive filtering and sorting simplify navigation and put the right data at your fingertips.
- Customizable insights: Easily customize searches to focus on areas of interest and uncover targeted insights.
- Perkins V funding support: By quickly identifying high-value careers, educators can demonstrate how their CTE programs align with high-skill, high-wage, and in-demand careers—a core requirement for receiving Perkins V Funding.
Powerful Demographic Details
Closing the equity gap in the workplace started with equitable education offerings.
Educators can evaluate whether students have equitable access to future opportunities with powerful demographic indicators that highlight racial and gender disparities across industries. LMN insights give educators the power to assess gaps in access, tailor resources, and promote fairer outcomes for all learners.
The Data You Need Most, Right at Your Fingertips
Labor Market Navigator provides educators with clear, concise, and well-organized data, perfect for sharing and incorporating relevant information into grants, proposals, and presentations.
- Perkins V Reporting:
Supports local needs assessments by providing data to justify programs of study - Career Cluster Tables:
Showcases market demand and wage data for occupations within specific occupational fields - District Overview:
Details who lives there, how people work, and what your regional economy needs - Career Cluster Maps:
Visualizes high-demand regional occupations by job zone, helping students and educators understand the required training, education, and entry and exit points in various career paths
Explore how districts use Labor Market Navigator
In Kalamazoo Public Schools, labor market data helped increase student engagement and strengthen career planning outcomes.
Optional Tools Available with Labor Market Navigator
Labor Market Analysis Report
Make informed decisions with the Labor Market Analysis Report—a powerful companion to P2C Labor Market Navigator that offers a clear view of regional workforce trends.
This report defines key demographic, labor market, and industry trends, equipping decision-makers with the insights necessary to identify unmet needs and strengthen Career and Technical Education (CTE) and workforce programs.
By leveraging real-time labor market data, regions and communities can close the skills gap between worker supply and employer demand.
Use this report to answer critical questions, align programs with high-value careers, and drive better outcomes for students and the local economy.
Career Cluster Maps
Engage learners early and often in career planning.
Career cluster maps highlight multiple entry and exit points within a career, along with education and training requirements. They also identify the most viable job opportunities in a career cluster, supported by relevant labor market data, and span all education levels—from high school diplomas to advanced degrees.
Educators can use the maps to align CTE and workforce training programs with regional needs. Each map includes an education plan that outlines relevant high school courses and connects them to postsecondary options, helping students make informed decisions about their futures.