Job Ads Research Articles

Want Ads, Job Skills, and Curriculum: A Survey of 1998 Chemistry Help-Wanted Ads

Employer surveys are useful checks on how well we are preparing students for the working world. Employer surveys are also useful because they put curriculum deficiencies into terms that are readily understood; they can thus be a catalyst for curriculum reform. This study classified 2035 chemistry jobs advertized in newspapers across the USA in the fall of 1998 according to job type, employment sector, industry, type of chemistry principally involved, and academic background and experience desired. Job ads were also searched for keywords denoting a broad range of instrumentation and techniques, personality traits, and general work skills and experience. The total of 7872 keywords, an average of 3.9 per job, indicates that employers are looking for more than just a B.S. in chemistry.

Recruitment advertising: The marketing-human resource interface

The common perception of recruitment advertising is of the "want ads" in the local or national newspapers. Despite the lack of academic interest, in some cases, recruitment advertising has adopted the color, imagination, and creativity of consumer advertising. Some recruiters have recognized the marketing benefits of job ads and the need for a corporate communications policy covering all company communications. This paper examines the limited literature on recruitment advertising. The authors compile a list of characteristics of marketing-oriented recruitment advertisements and apply these to their exploratory analysis of the recruitment section of one popular Sunday newspaper in the United Kingdom.

UK discussed ban on foreign job ads in 1960s

LONDON The British government was so worried about the loss of scientists and engineers to the United States in the late 1960s that it considered banning foreign recruitment advertising, according to documents released last week.

When You're A C&EN Reader...

A research chemist with a small specialty company in Oregon. The president of a multi-billion-dollar chemicals operation based in New Jersey. A synthetic organic chemist at a large midwestern pharmaceutical company. A professor at a university in Texas. A consulting chemist in North Carolina. What do these men and women have in common? Each of these chemists got their first jobs—one of them just last year, another nearly 50 years ago—from reading a job advertisement in Chemical & Engineering News . In fact, they all told me that they began reading C&EN as chemistry undergraduates—for the job ads. Now, as employers themselves, they advertise for chemists in C&EN—in print and online. Needless to say, it did my heart good to learn that these longtime members of the American Chemical Society and devoted readers value C&EN's classified section. But I was even more pleased when they volunteered that they're still reading C&EN ...

The Evolution of IS Job Skills: A Content Analysis of IS Job Advertisements from 1970 to 1990

Changes in the knowledge and skill requirements of information systems (IS) positions were examined by analyzing the content of advertisements for IS professionals placed in four major newspapers over the 20-year period 1970-1990. Three types of jobs were examined: programmers, systems analysts, and IS managers. The analysis of the frequency of phrases in these advertisements suggests that job ads for programmers have changed very little -- technical requirements remain high, and business and systems knowledge requirements remain relatively low (although the frequency of mention of business requirements has increased somewhat). IS management positions are also relatively stable (as relected in the makeup of job ads) from the standpoint that business knowledge requirements have remained high, with technical and systems requirements specified less frequently. The greatest transition in specified job requirements over this 20-year period has occurred for systems analysts. Although this is perhaps not surprising, the nature of this transition is. Contrary to expectations, the relative frequency and proportion of stated technical knowledge requirements in ads have increased dramatically, while the relative frequency of business and systems knowledge requirements has actually decreased slightly.These results raise questions concerning the implicit understanding by academics and practioners alike of the need for business knowledge on the part of systems analysts and other IS professionals. Various interpretations of these findings are provided, and the implications for both education and recruitment are discussed.

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