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B. Conclusion
Many people love the excitement of a marketplace. The challenge of
getting the best value for what they have to offer is thrilling. A little
bit of extra knowledge about a product or service sometimes secures
an exceptional deal.
Having had a brief tour of the labour market, practitioners can see
what knowledge a client or student would need to be an effective bargaining
agent in a constantly shifting arena. The vendors change their offerings
and prices in a very irregular, hard-to-predict fashion, due to economic,
social and technological developments that are constantly interjected
into the market. New stalls spring up and old ones disappear. Wandering
among the stalls will be a mix of naive and expert barterers.
Practitioners have the opportunity to play an important part in preparing
people to move about and deal in the labour market. Together, they can
explore and define informational needs, gather information, organize
what they collect, analyze and evaluate the information at hand and
decide which action plan would best suit the goal for now.
The new Canadian economy calls for efficient use of the information
that is readily available to the population. Learning to locate and
use easily accessible data enables clients and students to enter the
labour force in a manner that suits their abilities and the changing
needs of the labour market.
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