"A Fresh Perspective on Job Analysis"

Written by Rene Estremera.

A Fresh Perspective on Job Analysis: Extracting Job Information from Job Vacancy Announcements

Posted: 6 Dec 2022

Vladimer Kobayashi*

University of Amsterdam

Stefan T. Mol

University of Amsterdam Business School

Gábor Kismihók

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Evangelos Kanoulas

University of Amsterdam

Abstract

Online vacancies provide a novel and rich source of job information that may complement traditional job and labor market analyses. Common information that are used as input to job analysis are worker attributes and work activities. Previous studies aimed at extracting these pieces of information from vacancy data have by and large leveraged methods that rely on prespecified keywords during extraction which can be laborious, require subject matter expertise to screen the keywords and may introduce and/or replicate historical biases. To address these issues, this paper proposes the use of state-of-art text classification techniques coupled with a rich set of inductively derived features that incorporate word-based, syntactic, and grammatical features of text found in vacancies. The results showed our approach is effective in sorting vacancy content into worker attributes and worker activities. Furthermore, we demonstrate how the extracted job information can be used to extract task groups and cluster jobs, and how to validate the extracted information by comparing it to an existing job taxonomy that was independently constructed by experts.

Visit the web post here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4281602

*Department of Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science, UP Mindanao

UP Mindanao-Landcare-PCAARRD LIFE Program: Site Facilitators as Agents of Change

Written by Rene Estremera.

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization, Mindanao contributes greatly to the country's food requirements and national food trade. However, several provinces in the island are the poorest in the country. To respond to this, the University of the Philippines Mindanao and the Landcare Foundation of the Philippines, Inc., with funding from the Philippine Council for Agriculture, Aquatic and Natural Resources Research and Development launched the Livelihood Extension through Facilitated Extension (LIFE) Model in South Cotabato, Maguindanao, and Zamboanga Sibugay. The ACIAR Mindanao Agricultural Extension Project developed the LIFE Model to improve farmers’ livelihood by providing sustainable farming technologies and skills, improved marketing practices, and training on post-production and livelihood diversification, among other things. The Program ran from December 2017 to March 2021.

The paper “Roles of Site Facilitators in Improving Farm Income by Vegetable Growing in South Cotabato and Maguindanao, Philippines” by UP Mindanao researchers Kasmira Blaise S. Sigue, Emma Ruth V. Bayogan, Hazel P. Lozada, Anne Shangrila Y. Fuentes, Marvin Louie G. Orbeta, and Joy Angela D. Ignacio published in Acta Horticulturae explored how the two site facilitators in each site functioned as facilitators of change and contributed to the overall success of the LIFE Program.

By the Program’s completion, it has helped organize six farmer groups, produced agricultural instructional videos for farmers during the COVID-19 lockdown, organized fifty-seven training activities across the three sites, and increased annual gross income per farmer based on baseline and endline surveys. The site facilitators functioned as the main agricultural extension agent of the Program and played a vital role in achieving these gains. They served as resource persons during training, hosted community-level activities, and served as focal persons for partner stakeholders such as local government units. By being present in the communities, they gained the trust of the farmers as well as the partner institutions. The paper concludes that having effective site facilitators is essential in establishing trust and rapport among stakeholders engaging in agricultural extension.

Read the full article here: https://www.actahort.org/books/1312/1312_75.htm

Mindanao Times news article on website

Written by Rene Estremera.

2022 022022 LACAP

(source: https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Experts+studying+new+agent+for+mango+ripening-a0566396707)

Researchers at the University of the Philippines Mindanao are looking into coming up with a safer fruit-ripening agent as the use of calcium carbide has been proven harmful to health.

In a study present on Monday, researchers said the use of calcium carbide, commonly known as 'carburo,' produces substances like arsenic and phosphorus.

At present, researchers are on the process of testing a safer alternative source of ethylene for fruit ripening which was initially developed in the University of Queensland.

Angelyn Lacap, research assistant at the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research project, explained that the agent currently being used by farmers, calcium carbide, is harmful and that the university is in partnerships with other institutions to develop alternatives.

In a study presented on Monday during the UP Mindanao Research Colloquium at Davao Eagle Ridge Resort, a researcher said the use of carburo produces harmful substances like arsenic and phosphorus.

These elements transform into dangerous substances during the ripening process that may contaminate the peel of the fruit.

The alternative substance uses the same ripening agent, but is encapsulated in a safer sugar molecule, which releases ethylene safely.

The product is not yet commercially available, but a fruit exporter has expressed interest in the development.

"We are testing, we are building proofs of concept so that when we are ready to show it to the people, to the public, we can have a complete basis for its ripening effect," she added.

At present, the team is conducting a series of trials in order to standardize the application of the alternative ripening agents on varieties of mango.

SAMAL ISLAND AND ITS PEOPLE: NARRATIVES OF POWER IN THE LANDSCAPES OF A NEW CITY

Written by Bob Mitzel Navarrete.

Maria F. Mangahas

Abstract

In the frontier zone of Southeastern Mindanao, the general sociological observation that social reality stands “in immediate relation to the distribution of power” proves to be a much more complex and dynamic state of being. This paper outlines several recurrent conversations about a particular island location in Southern Philippines. The sizeable island of Samal in the Davao Gulf is at its closest point only 15 minutes away from Davao City. It became the “Island Garden City of Samal” in 1998, but before that surprisingly few people in Davao City were even aware that there was an island called “Samal” nearby. Traveling around the island and conducting fieldwork in 1996-1997 I encountered many kinds of people and several recurrent conversations about Samal as a place. These local discourses tell of interregional migration and movement, and reflect active local engagement with the processes of “Bisayanization” and integration within the national mainstream, globalization, capitalism, and modernization in the Davao region. The paper situates each of the different kinds of claims on the landscape within the existing ethnographic, demographic, and historical picture for the region, and ends up describing a setting that is actually many different kinds of reality at the same time. Six narratives of the landscape are discussed: Samal Island as valuable real estate; as mythic place of “giants” and “ancestral domain”; as out-of-the-way and risky, where a visitor should watch out for “poisoning”; as recently settled frontier; as a promised and prophesied land; and, finally, as a landscape also inhabited by unseen beings that are “not like us,” widely feared to be exacting taxes in human life as large scale government and multinational-led infrastructural development proceeded in 1997. The paper examines each of these in turn, as they describe and address larger issues of identity, land and power.

TOWARDS A MODIFIED BURKEAN APPROACH TO THE RHETORIC OF THE SOUTHERN PHILIPPINES COUNCIL FOR PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT (SPCPD)

Written by Bob Mitzel Navarrete.

Karen Joyce G. Cayamanda

Abstract

This study was conducted in view of the significance of the Southern Philippines Council for Peace and Development (SPCPD) not only among the Mindanaoans, but to the Filipino people as well. The study aimed at describing the rhetorical process using the Burkean approach and to determine the major issues reflected in the rhetoric. To reach this goal, a description of the rhetoric using the Dramatistic pentad with its five elements— act, scene, agent, agency and purpos—was deemed necessary. It was found out that Kenneth Burke’s dramatism or pentad was useful in analyzing the whos, whats, whys and hows in the rhetorical process.
Although Kenneth Burke’s dramatism or pentad was useful in analyzing the rhetorical process, there was a need to complement the approach with discourse analysis to be able to show the interpersonal relationship that was observed.
Since the study focussed on the Senate deliberation on the establishment of SPCPD, the rhetoric was analyzed during the height of the issue, the year 1996: focusing from the release of the draft of the Executive Order in August to the signing of the final Executive Order 371 in September, establishing the SPCPD, ZOPAD and the Consultative Assembly up to the immediate aftermath of the EO 371 in October to December. The analysis concentrated on this particular timeframe. Hence, the recent developments in the Mindanao situation was not included in this study.
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