In September 2023, Cedefop and Eurostat hosted a workshop in Thessaloniki, Greece, on enhancing analytics for online job advertisements (OJAs). The event gathered 60 participants, including the network of experts helping Cedefop and Eurostat in this domain, and Web Intelligence Network (WIN) members.
It featured six sessions covering various project aspects: green skills; skill relevance; natural language processing (NLP) samples; occupation classification; and source overlaps. The active involvement of WIN members working in OJAs was particularly important, as it allowed for direct interaction and collaboration between all key project developers and potential WIH users.
Key topics
Six sessions provided in-depth insights into various aspects of the project:
- Session 1 – 'Current state of the art of Cedefop’s project’, featured presentations from Eurostat and Cedefop that provided an overview of the project's journey and recent progress.
- Session 2 – 'Green skills’, presented developments in work on green skills, with a focus on the theoretical framework related to green skills and occupations.
- Session 3 – 'Constructing an index of skill relevance and skill change', offered insights into using OJA data to produce indicators of skill change.
- Session 4 – 'natural language processing (NLP) sample’, delved into the design and characteristics of the NLP sample and its potential uses, including research activities for a wider community of users.
- Session 5 – 'Improving classifiers', presented an occupation classification pipeline and the enhancement of digital skills, with a focus on job title variety and qualifications.
- Session 6 – 'Source overlap', focused on research into source uniqueness and overlap, crucial for informing agreement policies and source replacement policies.
The organisers are already looking forward to the 2024 edition of the workshop and encourage all participants to share their feedback on the event and suggestions on how to improve it.