Fraser Harper
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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