This project investigates the remote job market from scraped data from indeed.com in the period before February 15th 2021.
- Where are the companies that require remote employees located?
- What are the posting rates for remote positions by companies from these locations?
- What are the most requested remote positions in all locations?
- What are the most requested qualifications for remote positions in all locations?
- How are the salaries distributed?
- What are the characteristics of lower- and higher-pay jobs?
- Staffing companies invest a lot on indeed.com. Duplicates accounted for ~70% of the scraped data and they were mostly from staffing firms.
- The top postings are from these locations in this order: NYC, Chicago, Atlanta, Los Angeles, and Washington, DC.
- Middle of the week is when most of the jobs are posted.
- The majority of the posted remote jobs don’t have a specified location.
- Most of the posted jobs are sales, marketing and business development jobs.
- Most of the required qualifications are 1 year experience and bachelor.
- The median estimated salary for the remote jobs is $60,000 a year.
- More salaries are offered to federal employees, candidates with sales experience, real estate experience and above 2 years experience.
- Less salaries are offered to customer service, representatives, specialist, social media and part-time jobs.
The Power Point slides have a summary of the research outcome
More work can be done to classify the jobs using unsupervised learning. Also, a machine learning model can be built to predict the salary from job description.
Company: company name
Date: the time a job posted
JobLoc: job location
JobTitls: the title of the job
Qualifications: the required qualifications
Salary: the salary
Text: the job description
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