In Cyprus, the professions with the largest difference in demand in THEDI (websites) are those of the upper level (65,3%) while the demand arising is much lower in the middle level professions (30,4%) and in the lower level professions (4,3%).
This results from the participation of the Cyprus Human Resources Development Authority (HRDA) in the work of the European Center for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop) "Real-time labor market information on skill requirements: Setting up the EU system for online vacancy analysis".
The aim of the project was to develop a pan-European system for collecting, processing and analyzing data on job vacancies published on websites (online job vacancies), so that up-to-date information on the labor market situation is available. The project lasted four years, from 2017 to 2020.
From the analysis of the data, in relation to TEDI in Cyprus, the main information extracted is that the sources of information retrieval by provider are in the vast majority the private job search websites with 88,3%. They are followed by, by a very large margin, the private employment agencies (8,0%), the web portal of the Public Employment Service (3,2%) and the electronic newspapers (0,5%).
The professions with the highest demand with difference in THEDI are those of the upper level (65,3%) while the demand that arises in the middle level professions (30,4%) and in the lower level professions (4,3%) is much lower. . More specifically, the highest percentages appear in Graduates (33,2%), Technical Assistants (23,2%) as well as Service Employees and Salesmen (11,4%).
The skills that are most in demand at TEDI (highest frequency) are adaptability to change (6.570 impressions), customer support (4.345 impressions), teamwork (4.219 impressions) and computer use (4.092 impressions). ).
The sectors of economic activity, which are most in demand in TEDI are Administrative and support activities (15,8%), Professional, scientific and technical activities (15,5%), Trade and car repair (10,6%) ) and Information and communication (9,5%).
The project was awarded by Cedefop, following a call for tenders, to a consortium consisting of the Institute for Economics, Labor and Culture (IWAK) / Center of Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany and the Interuniversity Research Center on Public Services (CRISP) / Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy, with the participation of experts from the countries of the European Union (EU).
Among the main challenges faced in the implementation of the project was the large volume of elements that were not structured and properly configured. The jobs that were published on websites (THEDI) exceeded 40 million. Also the cost and time required to "clean up" the data and delete the unnecessary information and the classification of the languages used in TEDI and which had to be classified according to the European Classification System of Professions, Skills, Abilities and Qualifications (ESCO) .