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Being in the penultimate year of our tertiary education, we witness the hectic job rush that impact many of our peers. In reality, most students face a great amount of uncertainty in making major decisions related to their future career prospects. For instance, freshmen are unsure of which majors to enroll in while graduating students are unsure of the ideal company to work for. We aim to provide an insightful data visualization on industries, companies, and jobs, enabling students and working adults alike to find their ideal job. | Being in the penultimate year of our tertiary education, we witness the hectic job rush that impact many of our peers. In reality, most students face a great amount of uncertainty in making major decisions related to their future career prospects. For instance, freshmen are unsure of which majors to enroll in while graduating students are unsure of the ideal company to work for. We aim to provide an insightful data visualization on industries, companies, and jobs, enabling students and working adults alike to find their ideal job. | ||
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1. Graduating students are unsure of which company they'd want to work for, hence, are seeking a tool to visualise and compare important attributes between companies. | 1. Graduating students are unsure of which company they'd want to work for, hence, are seeking a tool to visualise and compare important attributes between companies. | ||
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2. Freshmen are unsure which majors they would want to enrol in, hence, are seeking a tool to visualize and compare important attributes across industries. | 2. Freshmen are unsure which majors they would want to enrol in, hence, are seeking a tool to visualize and compare important attributes across industries. | ||
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1. Can salary, growth trends, job vacancies and working hours required provide a good representation of the industry characteristics? | 1. Can salary, growth trends, job vacancies and working hours required provide a good representation of the industry characteristics? | ||
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1. Can sentiment analysis (positive v negative) provide a good representation of the company? More specifically, is a "positive v negative" scale too general to provide viewers with good understanding of company? | 1. Can sentiment analysis (positive v negative) provide a good representation of the company? More specifically, is a "positive v negative" scale too general to provide viewers with good understanding of company? | ||
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<b>1. Job Listing data from Indeed.com</b> | <b>1. Job Listing data from Indeed.com</b> | ||
Revision as of 17:15, 15 October 2018
Introduction
Being in the penultimate year of our tertiary education, we witness the hectic job rush that impact many of our peers. In reality, most students face a great amount of uncertainty in making major decisions related to their future career prospects. For instance, freshmen are unsure of which majors to enroll in while graduating students are unsure of the ideal company to work for. We aim to provide an insightful data visualization on industries, companies, and jobs, enabling students and working adults alike to find their ideal job.
Problem Statement
1. Graduating students are unsure of which company they'd want to work for, hence, are seeking a tool to visualise and compare important attributes between companies.
2. Freshmen are unsure which majors they would want to enrol in, hence, are seeking a tool to visualize and compare important attributes across industries.
Research Questions
Industry Level
1. Can salary, growth trends, job vacancies and working hours required provide a good representation of the industry characteristics?
- Salary allows one to gauge how much money he or she can potentially make
- Working hours provides insights on work-life balance
- Job vacancies provides an indicator of the demand for personnel in the industry
- Growth trends allows us to understand whether the industry is a sunrise or sunset market, and provides insights on job stability
Company Level
1. Can sentiment analysis (positive v negative) provide a good representation of the company? More specifically, is a "positive v negative" scale too general to provide viewers with good understanding of company?
- Sentiment analysis provides a good and reliable method to help people quickly understand the general thoughts on the company
2. Can a company's stock price (against time) provide a good representation on its current and future prospects?
- Stock price represents company's valuation. With comparison to time, we can tell the direction of the company
Data Sources
1. Job Listing data from Indeed.com
- Description: Indeed is a worldwide employment-related search engine for job listings. Indeed is used by many large corporations in Singapore, and has a massive database of active and expired job listings.
| Attribute | Description | Example |
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| Job Title | Title of Job Listing | Communications Intern |
| Category | Industry that job is classified in | Marketing |
| Company Name | Company that job listing belongs to | Ubisoft |
| Job Location | Country or Region of the job | Singapore |
| Job Description | Job description posted on indeed | A background in either Management, Marketing or Communications. The Communications Intern will play a key role in boosting our employer branding efforts, staff... |
| Overall Rating | Cumulative average rating of the company | 3.9 |
| Work-Life Balance Rating | Community rating of the work-life balance in the company | 3.9 |
| Benefits Rating | Community rating of the benefits that the company provides to its employees | 3.2 |
| Job Security Rating | Community rating of job security in the company | 3.4 |
| Management Rating | Community rating of the management team | 3.5 |
| Culture Rating | Community rating of the company culture | 4.1 |
2. Company Reviews Indeed.com
- Description: Indeed is a worldwide employment-related search engine for job listings. Many corporations have a profile page on Indeed, where current and past employees or vendors provide reviews for future potential employees.
| Attribute | Description | Example |
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| Company | Company Name | |
| Job Title | Title of the Current/Former Employee | Support Engineer |
| Rating | Overall rating that was given by the employee | 5 |
| Title | Title of the review | Amazing company with great people |
| Location | Country or Region that the employee resides in | Seattle, WA |
| Date | Date that review was posted | October 7, 2018 |
| Review Content | Full content of the review | Far and away the best job I have had to date. Worked on leading edge projects with some seriously talented and fun people. The culture is outstanding, but being a contractor often left me on the outside looking in at all the fun and benefits, despite the team's efforts to include me as much as allowable. I would work here again in a heartbeat, but preferably as a direct hire. |
