the forecasts are then used by lle staff to seek a match between labour supply and demand and assess the need for labour market vocational training reliance on employers survey implies some weaknesses as employers tend to be rather shortsighted and to overestimate their skill needs gruzevskis and blaziene j the forecasts are nevertheless widely used by representatives of education policy vocational education and training institutions and individuals seeking to obtain certain skills and are presented during the sittings of the tripartite council as well as at ministerial events