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Roshin Sen, F S

Format of Presentation. SLMRUImportance of occupational coding(In) adequacy of SOC codesMain issuesExamples from Financial Skills and Digital Content ReportsConclusions and questions. Skills Unit. Skills and Labour Market Research UnitExpert Group on Future Skills NeedsF

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Roshin Sen, F S

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    1. Roshin Sen, FÁS Research and Policy Implications of ‘Lost’ Occupations: Examples of Financial and Digital Content Skills

    2. Format of Presentation SLMRU Importance of occupational coding (In) adequacy of SOC codes Main issues Examples from Financial Skills and Digital Content Reports Conclusions and questions

    3. Skills Unit Skills and Labour Market Research Unit Expert Group on Future Skills Needs FÁS – Training and Employment Authority

    4. Functions of SLMRU National Skills Database Annual Skills Monitoring Reports Sectoral Studies

    5. Skills Database Purpose - to facilitate gap analysis Common coding system required for all sources of data Fundamental reliance on SOC codes

    6. Skills Monitoring Reports Families of Skills 3 digit SOC code the basis of reports in Construction skills – generally adequate for task Financial skills – not at all adequate!

    7. Appendix: Financial Occupations Professional & Associate Professional SOC 250/251 Accountants (incl. Management Accountants) SOC 252 Actuaries, Economists & Statisticians SOC 362 Taxation Experts SOC 361 Underwriters, Claims Assessors, Brokers & Investment Analysts SOC 130 Credit Controllers

    8. Appendix: Financial Occupations II Management Occupations SOC 120 Treasury & Company Financial Managers SOC 131 Bank & Building Society Managers SOC 139 Other Financial Managers Clerical Occupations SOC 410 Accounts & Wages Clerks; Bookkeepers; Other Financial Clerks SOC 411 Counter Clerks and Cashiers

    9. Coding issues 3 coding issues Multiple occupations in one code Some occupations not specified Irrelevant occupations included SOC occupation data for financial skills is not useful!

    10. Issue #1: Multiple occs – one code

    11. Issue #1: Occupation by NACE

    12. Issue #1: Conclusions Focus of reports - skills gap? With no employment data, very difficult to quantify gaps Without quantification, cannot make policy recommendations Going by SOC code alone, can say very little that is useful about financial skills

    13. Issue #2: Occupation not specified Financial Services Fund managers Compliance Officers Areas that are of some consequence, yet no employment data available

    14. Issue #2 continued Digital Content Study Sectoral Study Interviews carried out with 23 companies Occupations framed by reference to e-Careers; NAME guide and New Media CV’s Salary Survey 9 Families of Occupations within industry; 33 occupations

    15. Three main employers Media Authoring and Design Web design, Instructional Design, 2 & 3D animation Quality Assurance and Testing Software quality assurance, Hardware compliance testing Software Development Programming, Technical R&D

    16. Issue #2: Implications Study gives indication of type of occupations but not scale – still no employment figures New occupations so generally no professional organisations to contact Same as before – more resources required and difficult to make policy recommendations

    17. Issue #3: Occupations included? Some irrelevant occupations are included Financial skills report Taxation Experts Credit Controllers Impact? Emphasis given to occupations which are not particularly significant

    18. Overall Conclusions Fundamental question is: what are SOC codes for if not to provide data regarding skills? At present, if only SOC data used for some sectors, cannot produce a report of any worth

    19. Recommendations 4 digit SOC code can address issue of multiple occupations in one code Continuous updating of SOC codes can allow for introduction of new codes and weeding out of old ones

    20. Contact Details roshin.sen@fas.ie +353 1 607 7434 Skills & Labour Market Research Unit, FÁS, 25 Clyde Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4

    21. Appendix: Digital Occupations Current coding options for Digital Content occupations SOC 214 Software Engineers SOC 320 Computer Analyst/ Programmers SOC 490 Computer Operators; SOC 526 Computer engineers; installation; maintenance

    22. Appendix: Digital Coding options Cross reference with NACE NACE K.72 Computers & related NACE M.80 Education NACE 0.92 Recreational, cultural & sporting activities

    23. References: Digital Occupations Three sources used as reference E-Careers: Connection to Opportunities in Interactive Digital Media (Regan & Associates, 1999) NAME Jobs Reference Guide New Media CV’s Salary & Recruitment Guide (2001)

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