The document outlines various research projects related to job knowledge, personnel selection, and training, highlighting initiatives such as the wageindicator web survey, which collects data on occupations and wages in multiple countries. It discusses the importance of job knowledge in matching individuals to jobs and improving education and training outcomes, alongside ongoing collaborations with various institutions. Furthermore, it emphasizes the development of tools and methodologies for analyzing job performance and training effectiveness in relation to labor market demands.

1. eduworks-network.eu
facebook.com/eduworksnetwork
@EduworksNetwork
Presentation for Textkernel,
17 January 2014
Gábor Kismihók, Stefan Mol
Amsterdam Business School
http://abs.uva.nl/ and www.jobknowledge.eu
Kea Tijdens, AIAS (Amsterdam Institute of Advanced
Labour Studies) http://www.uva-aias.net/39
University of Amsterdam

2. Outline
• Ongoing Projects
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WageIndicator
InGRID
Center of Job Knowledge Research
OntoHR
med-assess
OntoTech
UvAInform
• Eduworks www.eduworks-network.eu/
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Introduction
Studies in Personnel Selection
Studies in training
Labour market driven learning analytics
Eduworks organisation

3. WageIndicator web survey
• Data collection: WageIndicator web-survey
• WageIndicator web-survey posted on 70 national WageIndicator websites
(20 mln visitors 2013)
in Netherlands known as Loonwijzer.nl, in Germany as Lohnspiegel.de, etc.
• Web-survey has questions about work and wages in national languages in 70 countries (soon
75)
• Web-survey is posted continuously, inviting visitors to complete the survey with prize incentive
• approx. 200,000 observations per year
• Databases for „long-list questions‟ in web survey
• „What is your occupation?‟: web-survey uses an API for this question, offering visitors a choice
between semantic matching or search tree, using the WISCO database of occupations
• „In which industry do you work?‟: API for 300 industries (coded NACE2.0)
• „What is your education/region/language spoken at home?‟: API has labels in national language
• WISCO database of occupations
• with 1700 occupational titles in languages of 70 countries (coded ISCO-08)
• www.wageindicator.org

4. Researching occupations
• Tasks in occupations
• WageIndicator web-survey used for testing features of occupations: asking
jobholders how often they perform a task, using a list of approx. 10 tasks per
occupation, specified for 433 occupations in 13 countries (aim: N=50,000)
• Comparing vacancies and jobholders
• confronting required skill levels in vacancies and attained skill levels of jobholders
in same occupations
• using export of EURES vacancy data and WageIndicator web survey data
• currently for Czech Rep, more countries foreseen
• https://inclusivegrowth.be/
• Funded from EU‟s FP7 research program for research infrastructures (2013-17)

5. Center of Job Knowledge Research
• Why CJKR? Because job knowledge…
• Is among the most important yet least understood individual
level drivers of the knowledge economy
• Is imperative to successfully match people to jobs but largely
neglected in personnel selection research
• Is an ultimate outcome against which both education and
training must be evaluated
• Is a means to ensure public spending on education enhances
graduates‟ opportunities, fit, and accomplishment on the labor
market
www.jobknowledge.eu

6. Job Knowledge
“…people who are more intelligent learn
more job knowledge and learn it faster, the
major determinant of job performance is
not GMA but job knowledge” (Schmidt and
Hunter, 2001).
GMA
Job knowledge
Job
Performance

7. Undeniably Job General
Unequivocally Job Specific (albeit more portable for more related occupations)
Job
Knowledge
GMA
Education
Job Specific – Job
General
Job
Performance

8. A personnel selection and training platform that takes an
individualized approach to the assessment and development
of job knowledge of ICT Systems analysts
www.ontohr.eu

9. Transfer of innovation: Development of job knowledge test
and training platform for nurses
www.med-assess.eu

10. OntoTech
Extending portfolio of ICT Job Knowledge Tests for
purposes of curriculum diagnostics and development

11. UvAInform
Learning analytics is “the measurement, collection, analysis,
and reporting of data about learners and their contexts, for
purposes of understanding and optimizing learning and the
environments in which it occurs” (SOLAR 2012).
Internal UvA project aimed at the pan-university
development of an educational data informed student
feedback interface.

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GITP
Randstad Holding
ECORYS
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUT)
Central European Labour Studies Institute (CELSI)
Corvinus University of Budapest (CUB)
Ericsson
European Distance and E-Learning Network (EDEN)
European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (EUROFOUND)
Labour Asociados
Netpositive
University of Alicante (UAL)
Wageindicator

15. ER 5 & 6: Occupations and
skills (2 postdoc researchers)
• Dynamics within and across occupations
• testing theories concerning the clustering of tasks into occupations, using the tasks
data for 433 occupation for 13 countries, using web survey data
• testing theories how employers define the required skill levels for vacancies, using
EURES vacancy data
• Building an occupational information system
• improving the measurement of job titles and their coding into classifications
-> using semantic matching for surveys
-> using statistical likelihood estimates given industry, education, gender, age
(from previous data collections)
• expanding the WISCO database of 1,700 occupations for 75 countries with more
occupational titles and more languages
• building an occupational and educational information system

16. ESR1: Leveraging the potential of job
knowledge to fit individuals to jobs:
Studies in Personnel Selection
Research
• State of the art on job knowledge based personnel selection: A (quantitative)
literature review
• Development and psychometric validation of job knowledge tests for purposes
of personnel selection
• Field and (quasi) experimental studies providing support for the (causal) job
knowledge mediated relationship between GMA and Job Performance
Data
• Primary Studies, interviews with job incumbents (N>50) and HR Managers
(N>20), content analysis of vacancies and job databases, multisource surveys
• We foresee close collaboration with ESR#2.

17. ESR2: Leveraging the potential of job
knowledge to fit individuals to jobs:
Studies in training
Research
• State of the art on job knowledge based training: A (quantitative) literature
review
• Development and psychometric validation of job knowledge tests for training
needs analysis and training validation
• Field and (quasi) experimental studies providing support for the (causal) job
knowledge mediated relationship between training and Job Performance
• Temporal dynamism in the co-development of job knowledge and job
performance over time.
Data
• Primary Studies, interviews with job incumbents (N>50) and HR Managers
(N>20), content analysis of vacancies and job databases, multisource surveys
• We foresee close collaboration with ESR#1.

18. ESR7: Labour market driven
learning analytics
Research
• State of the art on labour market context educational outcome measures:
A literature review
• Exploring Person-Education-Labour market (mis)matches by merging big data
from education (HvA, UvA), Randstad, GITP, etc.
• Identifying educational context predictors of labour market success
• Provision of labour market validated feedback to current students to enhance
their study success
Data
• Secondary data obtained from HvA and UvA student data warehouses,
including grades, behaviors in online learning environments), labour market
data from associate partners (GITP, Randstad, etc).