Analyzing the needs of the offshore sector in Morocco by mining job ads

摘要

The offshore sector creates a large number of job opportunities in Morocco. Analyzing job ads related to that sector can help universities adapt their curricula in order to produce more employable graduates. Unfortunately, analyzing these ads is challenging because they are mostly non-structured. Most prior work, however, focuses on analyzing structured and semi-structured job ads through keyword search and regular expressions. In this work, we collect and analyze job ads related to the offshore sector in Morocco over the period February-August 2017. We use a variety of machine learning and text mining techniques to process these ads. We examine the natural languages, programming languages, education level, and years of experience needed. We also examine contract type and salary when available. Our results reveal that French is the most needed language in offshore jobs, but that other foreign languages (English and Spanish) are also needed. We also find that the most needed offshore IT jobs are development and web design jobs. The most needed programming languages for these jobs are Java, SQL, JavaScript and PHP.