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    Fraser Harper
    • Nov 15, 2019
    • 4 min

    Using O*NET to explore and understand data science tasks

    Much has been said and written about data science roles and the growth of the data science group of occupations1. The work of data...
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    Fraser Harper
    • Oct 30, 2019
    • 2 min

    Insights through O*NET: 14. Exploring Technologist Occupations (4)

    In our previous posts[1][2][3], we drew comparisons between occupational requirements and job content for technologists in Industrial...
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    Insights through O*NET: 13. Exploring Technologist Occupations (3)
    Fraser Harper
    • Oct 30, 2019
    • 2 min

    Insights through O*NET: 13. Exploring Technologist Occupations (3)

    In our previous posts[1][2], we observed that the occupational requirements and job content profiles shown in O*NET for Industrial...
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    Insights through O*NET: 12. Exploring Technologist Occupations (2)
    Fraser Harper
    • Oct 30, 2019
    • 2 min

    Insights through O*NET: 12. Exploring Technologist Occupations (2)

    In our previous post we observed that the Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) technique for O*NET work styles indicates that Industrial...
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    Insights through O*NET: 11. Exploring Technologist Occupations (1)
    Fraser Harper
    • Oct 30, 2019
    • 2 min

    Insights through O*NET: 11. Exploring Technologist Occupations (1)

    In this previous post, we identified that the education profiles for industrial engineering and mechanical engineering technologist...
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    Insights through O*NET: 10. Engineers, Technicians and Technologists: what are the differences?
    Fraser Harper
    • Oct 23, 2019
    • 2 min

    Insights through O*NET: 10. Engineers, Technicians and Technologists: what are the differences?

    The titles and meanings of engineer, technician and – increasingly – technologist occupations are still very loose.  In the Institute for...
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    Fraser Harper
    • Oct 23, 2019
    • 3 min

    Insights through O*NET: 9. Why does the UK need Technologists?

    In the UK labour market there appears to be a distinct and emerging set of occupations referred to as ‘technologists’.  However, they are...
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    Insights through O*NET: 8. Using Skill Complementarities with O*NET data
    Fraser Harper
    • Oct 23, 2019
    • 1 min

    Insights through O*NET: 8. Using Skill Complementarities with O*NET data

    In this previous post, we described how we can use the Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) method, as borrowed from international...
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    Fraser Harper
    • Oct 23, 2019
    • 1 min

    Insights through O*NET: 7. Using RCA with O*NET data – some implications

    In this previous post, we presented Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) calculations as being a useful, though not exclusive, tool for...
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    Insights through O*NET: 6. Using Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) with O*NET data
    Fraser Harper
    • Oct 23, 2019
    • 2 min

    Insights through O*NET: 6. Using Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) with O*NET data

    Revealed Comparative Advantage is an index used in international economics for calculating the relative advantage or disadvantage of a...
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    Insights through O*NET: 5. Looking at O*NET IWA timelines
    Fraser Harper
    • Oct 15, 2019
    • 1 min

    Insights through O*NET: 5. Looking at O*NET IWA timelines

    In our previous post, we described how O*NET Intermediate Work Activities (IWAs) can be used as proxies for competences, both within and...
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    Insights through O*NET: 4. Using O*NET IWAs
    Fraser Harper
    • Oct 15, 2019
    • 2 min

    Insights through O*NET: 4. Using O*NET IWAs

    Intermediate and Detailed Work Activities (IWAs and DWAs) were introduced into O*NET v18.1 (March 2014).  They are updated on a rolling...
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    Fraser Harper
    • Oct 15, 2019
    • 3 min

    Insights through O*NET: 3. Some practical implications

    We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short term and underestimate the effect in the long run. Amara’s Law1 Building...
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    Insights through O*NET: 2. Macro trends in soft skills
    Fraser Harper
    • Oct 12, 2019
    • 2 min

    Insights through O*NET: 2. Macro trends in soft skills

    In our previous post, we described how we can use the rich US Occupational Network (O*NET) data archive to examine evidence for trends...
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    Insights through O*NET: 1. An Introduction
    Fraser Harper
    • Oct 12, 2019
    • 3 min

    Insights through O*NET: 1. An Introduction

    In our work, we regularly review research – both qualitative and quantitative – on occupational requirements and content, to gain...
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