Fraser HarperNov 15, 20194 minUsing O*NET to explore and understand data science tasksMuch has been said and written about data science roles and the growth of the data science group of occupations1. The work of data...
Fraser HarperOct 30, 20192 minInsights 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...
Fraser HarperOct 30, 20192 minInsights 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...
Fraser HarperOct 30, 20192 minInsights 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...
Fraser HarperOct 30, 20192 minInsights 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...
Fraser HarperOct 23, 20192 minInsights 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...
Fraser HarperOct 23, 20193 minInsights 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...
Fraser HarperOct 23, 20191 minInsights through O*NET: 8. Using Skill Complementarities with O*NET dataIn this previous post, we described how we can use the Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) method, as borrowed from international...
Fraser HarperOct 23, 20191 minInsights through O*NET: 7. Using RCA with O*NET data – some implicationsIn this previous post, we presented Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) calculations as being a useful, though not exclusive, tool for...
Fraser HarperOct 23, 20192 minInsights through O*NET: 6. Using Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) with O*NET dataRevealed Comparative Advantage is an index used in international economics for calculating the relative advantage or disadvantage of a...
Fraser HarperOct 15, 20191 minInsights through O*NET: 5. Looking at O*NET IWA timelinesIn our previous post, we described how O*NET Intermediate Work Activities (IWAs) can be used as proxies for competences, both within and...
Fraser HarperOct 15, 20192 minInsights through O*NET: 4. Using O*NET IWAsIntermediate and Detailed Work Activities (IWAs and DWAs) were introduced into O*NET v18.1 (March 2014). They are updated on a rolling...
Fraser HarperOct 15, 20193 minInsights through O*NET: 3. Some practical implicationsWe tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short term and underestimate the effect in the long run. Amara’s Law1 Building...
Fraser HarperOct 12, 20192 minInsights through O*NET: 2. Macro trends in soft skillsIn our previous post, we described how we can use the rich US Occupational Network (O*NET) data archive to examine evidence for trends...
Fraser HarperOct 12, 20193 minInsights through O*NET: 1. An IntroductionIn our work, we regularly review research – both qualitative and quantitative – on occupational requirements and content, to gain...