PostAc : A Visual Interactive Search, Exploration, and Analysis Platform for PhD Intensive Job Postings

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    Abstract

    Over 60% of Australian PhD graduates land their first job after graduation outside academia, but this job market remains largely hidden to these job seekers. Employers low awareness and interest in attracting PhD graduates means that the term PhD is rarely used as a keyword in job advertisements; 80% of companies looking to employ similar researchers do not specifically ask for a PhD qualification. As a result, typing in PhD to a job search engine tends to return mostly academic jobs. We set out to make the market for advanced research skills more visible to job seekers. In this paper, we present PostAc®, an online platform of authentic job postings that helps PhD graduates sharpen their career thinking. The platform is underpinned by research on the key factors that identify what an employer is looking for when they want to hire a highly skilled researcher. Its ranking model leverages the free-form text embedded in the job description to quantify the most sought-after PhD skills and educate information seekers about the Australian job-market appetite for PhD skills. The platform makes visible the geographic location, industry sector, job title, working hours, continuity, and wage of the research intensive jobs. This is the first data-driven exploration in this field. Both empirical results and online platform will be presented in this paper.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics-System Demonstrations
    EditorsAnna Korhonen, David Traum, Lluís Màrquez
    Place of PublicationStroudsburg
    PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics
    Pages43-48
    Edition1st Edition
    ISBN (Print)978-1-950737-48-2
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2019
    Event57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2018 - Italy, Italy
    Duration: 1 Jan 2019 → …
    https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/P19-1000

    Conference

    Conference57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2018
    Country/TerritoryItaly
    Period1/01/19 → …
    OtherJuly 28 - August 2 2019
    Internet address

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