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Content Analysis of O.R. Job Advertisements to Infer Required Skills


ManMohan S. Sodhi


City University London - Sir John Cass Business School; Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad

Byung-Gak Son


Cass Business School

May 6, 2009

Journal of the Operational Research Society (JORS), 2009
Cass Business School Research

Abstract:     
The paper presents an empirical method to infer employers’ requirements of operational research (O.R.) skills by analyzing the text of online job ads using content analysis. The method entailed collecting more than a thousand job ads from online sources, creating a hierarchy of sets of O.R.-related words and phrases, and then analyzing the job ads using content analysis software to count the numbers of ads using the hierarchy of words and phrases. The method is particularly well suited for the periodic analysis of job ads to understand changes and trends, and is replicable in that, when carried out using our proposed keywords, it would yield the same results for any set of O.R. job ads.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 28

Keywords: content analysis, manpower planning, statistics, education

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Date posted: July 17, 2010  

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Sodhi, ManMohan S. and Son, Byung-Gak, Content Analysis of O.R. Job Advertisements to Infer Required Skills (May 6, 2009). Journal of the Operational Research Society (JORS), 2009; Cass Business School Research. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1640814 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1640814

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ManMohan S. Sodhi (Contact Author)
City University London - Sir John Cass Business School ( email )
106 Bunhill Row
London, EC1Y 8TZ
United Kingdom
Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad ( email )
Hyderabad, Gachibowli 500 019
India
Byung-Gak Son
Cass Business School ( email )
106 Bunhill Row
London, EC1Y 8TZ
United Kingdom
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