A dream job? Skill demand and skill mismatch in ICT

Nowadays, the traditional ways of job seeking have become less popular than digital methods. Recruitment websites are more attractive to job seekers since they provide easy, convenient access to a greater number of job vacancies. The biggest disadvantage, however, is that job vacancies published online are often unstructured and confusing. Studies related to online job vacancies are usually restricted to a short duration and a small number of recruitment websites. Such studies frequently use proxies for skills and occupations, or aggregate them into wider groups. The aim of our research is to provide full educational characteristics of job vacancies in Poland and calculate a complete list of educational mismatches. We introduce an approach that includes stages of source selection; data collection; and extraction of occupations, qualifications, and skills. We describe difficulties with data scraping and ways to overcome them. Thanks to our large dataset, we are able to determine and describe the labour demand. We also show the results of a survey that estimates educational traits of the labour supply. To measure mismatch between education and labour supply and demand, we use structural compliance indices. The paper also offers a case study for chosen occupational groups. Our findings reveal the greatest mismatch is in education and job-related skills, with the least mismatch occurring between geographic regions.

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Accelerated demand for interpersonal skills in the Australian post-pandemic labour market

Evans,

Mason,

Chen

et al. 2024

Nat Hum Behav

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The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a widespread shift to remote work, reducing the level of face-to-face interaction between workers and changing their modes and patterns of communication. This study tests whether this transformation in production processes has been associated with disruptions in the longstanding labour market trend of increasing demand for interpersonal skills. To address this question, we integrate a skills taxonomy with the text of over 12 million Australian job postings to measure skills demand trends at the aggregate and occupational levels. We find that since the start of the pandemic, there has been an acceleration in the aggregate demand for interpersonal skills. We also find a strong positive association between an occupation’s propensity for remote work and the acceleration in interpersonal skills demand for the occupation. Our findings suggest that interpersonal skills continue to grow in importance for employment in the post-pandemic, remote work friendly labour market.

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A dream job? Skill demand and skill mismatch in ICT

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Accelerated demand for interpersonal skills in the Australian post-pandemic labour market

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