Purpose

The purpose of this project is to understand the skills and competencies of jobs potential ESM graduates may be qualified for.

Project Files

Project files can be found here: https://github.com/acircleda/Data-Jobs

Data and Methodology

All data comes from administrative job ads HigherEdJobs using the following searches:

The initial plan was to use the rvest webscraper package to automatically crawl these searches and scrape these jobs. However, while testing, I realized only a limited amount of data could be downloaded before the webscraper was blocked as a bot.

Due to webscraping limitations, jobs were manually downloaded from the searches. This had the added advantage of “human filtering” - removing jobs that were unrelated or clearly required discipline-specific degrees (e.g. business, biostats).

All downloaded jobs can be found in the job-files directory on Github.

Code

The content of the files is scraped using the rvest package. The code can be found in the scraping.R file. The code is then analyzed using tidytext and words from the word lists.R file.

Analyses

You may toggle between separate analyses for Admin and Faculty jobs.

Admin Jobs

Number of Jobs Analyzed
148

Job Categories


Common Requirements

Programming/Software
Program/Language n
excel 59
sql 56
spss 54
database 53
tableau 50
r 45
sas 45
python 28
stata 20
warehouse 20
qualtrics 16
oracle 13
cognos 9
nvivo 6
powerbi 5
salesforce 4
java 3
sap 3
vba 3
minitab 2
scala 2
apache 1
arcgis 1
hadoop 1
html 1
javascript 1
jmp 1
matlab 1
qlik 1
Statistical Skills
Statistics n
descriptive 21
mining 17
inferential 11
regression 7
projections 6
factor 5
logistic 5
correlation 4
correlations 3
forecasts 3
anova 2
hierarchical 2
pca 1
projection 1
sem 1
structural 1
Other Skills
Other Skills n
reporting 111
statistics 91
presentation 58
qualitative 50
visualization 50
report 49
survey 47
presentations 43
dashboards 27
graphs 21
warehouse 20
cleaning 18
dashboard 8
questionnaire 2
wrangling 1

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Faculty Jobs

Number of Jobs Analyzed
27

Job Categories


Common Skills

TBD



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