CEPS, Brussels, Belgium, 20 October 2014

General information

Motivated by the New Skills for New Jobs initiative of the European Commission, the Working Conditions and Vulnerability pillar of the InGRID project aims at developing and testing new tools to measure occupations and their skill requirements. In this context, the internet based data collection via web crawling/spider methods constitute a promising approach. Within this framework, the workshop’ scope is  to bring together a group of experts to discuss the framework, structure, challenges, and recent developments in web crawling/spider methodologies that are used in vacancy data to analyze skills and competences in job advertisements. In addition, it aims to provide guidelines and methodological/practical information on how to utilize web crawling data – coming from both private and public job portals – as tools to identify and compare new skills and new jobs within the cross-country research on job vacancies, working conditions and occupational health and safety surveys. The latter objective is directly tied to the subsequent research activity within the work pillar of the InGRID project.

Lectures and topics

The workshop is planned as a one day event and will focus on the issues addressing the following questions:

• Use of web crawling for discovering/measuring “new jobs”:

1. Are job titles old, while content is new?
2. Are job titles new, while content is old?

• Use of web crawling for discovering/measuring “new skills”:

1. Are these new skills or emerging skills which are already identified, but become more prominent only recently?
2. Are these skills new either within existing framework (such as cloud-based collaboration as part of ICT skills) or emerging from technological change (and not part of ICT skills as such)?
3. The event will be highly interactive and practical. Presentations will only serve to kick off the discussion. The experts will discuss in detail web crawling framework, methodologies, challenges and matching issues as well as guidelines on how to make use of such data in labour market analysis for the research community.

Venue

Venue: CEPS, Centre for European Policy Studies, Place du Congrès 1, 1000 Brussels, Belgium.

Organisation: This event is organised by CEPS — Centre for European Policy Studies.

For applicants

The workshop targets experts and practitioners who are experienced in collection and coding of required skills and competences from vacancies in job portals using web crawling methods in order to match these with skills and competences of the jobseekers. The experts will discuss in detail web crawling framework, methodologies, challenges and matching issues as well as guidelines on how to make use of such data in labour market analysis for the research community.

The expert workshop is also open to researchers and policy-makers in the area of skills, labour market matching, labour market – education linkages, and use of Big Data for research.

Candidates for the expert workshop should fill in the application form on our website  before 01/09/2014.

Applications will be evaluated by CEPS. Candidates will be in­formed in the second week of September about acceptance to the workshop. Participation to the workshop is free of charge, and participants may be eligible for reimbursement of travel and subsistence costs.

Contact: elisa.martellucci@ceps.eu