Online job vacancies in the Italian labour market

Abstract

The analysis of online job vacancies is a research area that may provide a better understanding of the labour demand trends. With the aim of setting up an Italian vacancy monitor, about 70,000 job posts were collected for a three-month timeframe. By implementing the typical phases of a big data process, this work describes a procedure for the definition of a model able to integrate, represent and analyse the acquired data, focusing on the textmining techniques of information retrieval and information extraction. In presenting the main results of the analysis, particular focus has been reserved to the description of the most challenging features as well as the operative solutions that characterised this activity, in order to ease a future extension of this methodology to a broader web job market.