In this blog series, international experts on the topic of analyzing online job advertisements present their work. The presentations were given at the 7th OJA Forum, which is jointly organized twice a year by the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training and the Bertelsmann Stiftung. Topics at the 7th OJA Forum included the visualization and use of data using dashboards and the assignment of job titles to online job advertisements using various methodological approaches. This article is about the contribution of Sama El Hage Sleiman from the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA).

The Future of Work Initiative in the Arab Region: ESCWA’s Skills Monitor Pipeline

The ESCWA is leading an innovative project to systematically analyze and capture the diverse array of skills from 22 Arab countries through the ESCWA Skills Monitor (ESM) tool. The presentation will illustrate the ESM pipeline from collecting and curating OJA data sets to their augmentation. Our discussion will include an in-depth look at the „Skills Forest“ a unique model that illustrates the dynamic and intricate relationships between different jobs, illustrating mobility between jobs based on diversified skills. The session will conclude with a live demo of the ESM, highlighting its real-time analytical power and its transformative potential for policymakers, educators, and industry professionals.

 

Further contributions to „7th OJA Forum“:

7th OJA Forum (Part 1) – From data to knowledge on skills

7th OJA Forum (Part 2) – ESCWA’s Sills Monitor

7th OJA Forum (Part 3) – Enhancing the Employability of Students: a LMI Model using OJA

7th OJA Forum (Part 4) – Profession classification in the messy real world

7th OJA Forum (Part 5) – A Hybrid Methodology for Job Ad Title Normalization

7th OJA Forum (Part 6) – Semantic Search with BERT

7th OJA Forum (Part 7) – Explainable AI in OJA Analysis: Unveiling Job Level Classifier