CHANGING REQUIREMENT OF SKILLS

Rohit / Akshay :

As we discussed other day , there are “ hard skills “ and “ soft skills “

“ Hard Skills “ are more tied to a given “ function “ ( eg : Sales / Production / Finance etc )

“ Soft Skills  “ ( such as , “ Expression / Communication “ etc ) are quite common across the various FUNCTIONs

Although “ hard skills “ are tied to a given Function , even here these do vary , depending upon the hierarchy ( from a “ Supervisor “ to a “ Manager “ to a “ Vice President “ of FINANCE , these skills requirements , change )

Eg : the conceptual understanding for “ Capital Work in Progress “ , belongs to FINANCE , but not required for an “ Accounts Supervisor “ )

On the other hand , “ Communicating Skills “ may not be that critical for an R&D position , as for a “ Sales or Marketing “ guy !

Of course , I am assuming that neither of these skills ( hard or soft ) , vary much across organizations , for the same FUNCTION and for similar Designation Level within that function

Now, Job Descriptions invariably contain “ Keywords “ for both the kind of skills

And , if we have Job Descriptions ( for each function ) at all the levels of hierarchy , then finding / extracting such Keywords and computing their “ frequency of occurrence “ , cannot be very difficult

We have downloaded ( 2005 – 2012 ? ) , some 2 MILLION job advts ( RSS feeds from leading job portals ) of , may be , 50,000 companies

Then , we NORMALIZED these into a structured database of 13 fields ! – one of which , is “ Job description “

Each advt also has fields for :

·         Function

·         Industry

·         Designation

If you need this 2 MILLION job advts for your experimentation , just let me know

   

With Regards,

hemen  parekh 

www.hemenparekh.in 

hcp@RecruitGuru.com 

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