Skills Data Digest - Webinar 3

00:52:25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqhuJ3SWezg

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  • 🔍 Di jêkêlan da beraqekê ji bo demkartan û danobjikan dijw.

Linea temporale

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    Norah Trench van Irish University's Associationê pêşniyarîya webinarên nimêverên înternetê dide, da ku jî bo çalakî û xalên zanîngeh awkirin destûrê dide. Ew ji ber hilberîna pêşgotina bêhiyaw a zanyarî li ser xebatên li ser pêkanîn û pêdiviyan fêrî ye.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    Dr. Sheamus McGinnis xebata xwe li ser pêdiviyan fêrî ya pêşketinî li ser Teknolojîya Qedropol a hilbijartinê diyarî kir. Ew di binî meîkrozoftê lê dibe û di xebateke tevahî fêrbûna fêt dikin.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    Xebata Pêwîstiyên Fêrî AMYNê di armanca xwe de pêştextir dike ku çawa Teknolojiyên nû hûnermendiyê û karmendiyê mezin dikin. Ew dide ku zanîngeh pêwîstiyên yên kevn nêtijî kirin û hûnermendan baateyek fêrî nedan.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    Xebatên pêşketina ji bo fermanên karî di heta 5 salî de têne çêkirin û pêdiviyan fêrî li ser fêrbunan fêt hûnerman ne da ku jî hûnermendan pîvaziya fêrbûna li Teknolojiyê baz dike.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:25:00

    Fêdîi jê derheqê ji bo pargîdaniya blockchain li geloşkê dijwar an gerdûnî dîti, hûnermendan digerên pargîdaniyên zanîngeh ya harmonize kiriye. Yên pêkarê xebatiyan pêşpitîne lê hûnermenda neteweyî ne Dem.

  • 00:25:00 - 00:30:00

    Xebateke fêrbûn a din li ser blockchain leverdanên EUê rast dike û piştgirîya zanîngeh di meqama hûnermenda irlandî de pêvazî dike. Ew gotar wê pêwîstiyên fêrbûna baş dike.

  • 00:30:00 - 00:35:00

    Di lêkolînên zanistek de 10 pêncayan nîşan dide ku pêdiviyan fêrî ya blockchain, AI û Automation li hûnermenda Irlandî binpêndike û piştgirî ye.

  • 00:35:00 - 00:40:00

    Di vê seetê de lêkolîn li carenan diyadin ku dikarin hûnermendan xwe xebatbikî û xebatan hono mucetel biken. Ew digotin ku di van lêkolînan de, pirsgîrêka hûnermî bû pênc kêm di qutan de heye û tiştinber li hûr bû.

  • 00:40:00 - 00:45:00

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  • 00:45:00 - 00:52:25

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    uh hearty welcome to everyone and good
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    afternoon uh my name is Norah trench BS
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    I'm the head of lifelong learning and
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    skills at the Irish University's
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    Association um and this is the the third
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    um iua skills data digest that we have
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    hosted they H kicked off earlier
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    this year and the idea behind these um
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    skills data D digest as a number of you
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    may know is it's a series of lunchtime
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    webinars um they are organized
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    specifically for colleagues across the
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    iua member universities um and it's an
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    opportunity to present and to discuss
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    some of the key skills uh data
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    Publications research coming from uh our
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    national skills
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    architecture and to support the
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    dissemination of This research across
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    the
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    universities um we previously heard from
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    the slmr on the national skills bulletin
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    we also heard from the expert group on
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    future skills needs on their skills for
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    biofarma
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    report um and the recordings of those
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    webinars and the slides that were
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    presented at them um they're they're
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    both uh available on the iua
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    website um today as you know and and as
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    you can see on this screen we're going
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    to be hearing um about a recent esri
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    report which is on skills requirements
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    for emerging
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    Technologies um This research is around
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    uh demand and supply for for automation
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    for AI for blockchain related jobs in
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    Ireland and we're going to be hearing
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    from one of the authors of the report Dr
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    Sheamus mcginness who's a research
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    professor in the
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    esri um what's also interesting about
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    this uh particular piece of um research
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    is that it is it is a part of um The
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    Joint skills research program on Irish
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    skills requirements which the which the
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    ESR and the department of further higher
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    education research Innovation and
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    science um have been running for a few
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    years so it'll I suppose also be an in
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    opportunity to hear a bit about that uh
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    program um like I said earlier after
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    Sheamus's presentation we'll have a
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    chance for uh questions answers and
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    exchange so um I'm hoping we can have a
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    lively interaction so please please do
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    think of uh questions you would like to
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    pose to the presenter um and and then
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    finally just to say uh you will have
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    seen today's session is being
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    recorded um we will follow up by email
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    with the recording and with the slides
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    after afterwards so please do pass it on
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    to any interested colleagues across your
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    uh University who may also wish to be
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    added to the iua skills data D digest
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    mailing list so that's plenty from me H
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    without further Ado I'd like to please
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    hand over to
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    Sheamus Thank you very much uh Nora and
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    uh thank you for the invite it's a great
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    opportunity to present the research
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    there and we're very happy to do
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    so so as noris said this is um piece of
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    work that was done under the joint
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    research program a relatively new joint
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    research program between the SRI and Def
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    first um so we have a series of these
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    programs in The Institute and the idea
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    is that you know over a two-year period
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    we would undertake a series of studies
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    um that would be linked um and would
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    build on each other and then um if it's
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    in mutually agreed the program would be
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    extended or would stopped if it's if
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    it's deemed of met its uh requirements
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    so this is the first study um that we've
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    published we're currently undertaking a
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    second study where we're looking at the
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    National Training fund we're looking at
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    all the major funding streams under that
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    fund we're looking at for each of those
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    elements we for example we're looking at
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    what are the objectives what are the key
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    uh recipients um what are the what are
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    the key capis that Pro from that and
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    then we ask the question how would you
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    evaluate or measure that fund or how
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    should it be measured what data
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    information is being collected and is
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    that is sufficient for evaluation
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    purposes um with the really the goal to
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    to to ensure that at least going forward
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    we start making the steps of having a
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    proper data infrastructure in place
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    where we can properly measure and
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    evaluate um the very significant um
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    streams of of funding that are that are
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    going to particular uh projects under
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    the National Training fund and and
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    elsewhere but uh in terms of this
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    research today um this is our first
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    study um and basically um what this is
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    about is is to try and assess to what
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    extent are changing our emerging
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    technology is important for the Irish
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    labor market so we know that there's
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    rapid technological change um within uh
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    within the world and and obviously labor
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    markets are impacted by that um but it's
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    particularly important from an Irish
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    perspective
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    that the system is prepared and
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    particularly the Education and Training
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    System is prepared and forewarned of any
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    changes in technological progress that
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    are that are impacting the demand for
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    jobs so obviously that we we can uh make
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    sure that we have provision in place um
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    as that demand grows and that's
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    particularly important for a country uh
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    like Ireland which
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    has built a lot of its growth on
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    ensuring that we're able to cater for
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    the needs of particularly high-tech
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    multinational companies so it's
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    important that we have proper foresight
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    and we're able to understand how the
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    world is changed in terms of
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    technological change and what jobs are
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    emerging in that context traditionally
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    when we sort of forecast out what we
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    think the labor market will look like in
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    five years so we can then um advise
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    educational and training providers what
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    coures they need to um put in place so
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    what and what the skill content of that
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    would be we would use traditional manp
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    par forecasting
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    models and this would require us using
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    historical data such as the labor force
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    uh survey data and then projecting past
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    Trends into the future the problem is
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    that data is very old so there's usually
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    an 18th month month lag before we get um
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    so if if the the labor force data that
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    would be available now get into 2024
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    would be relate into 20 23 possibly 2022
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    it's it's relatively old um so by the
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    time we we get that data and we project
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    those Trends into the future the world
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    has already changed so we need to move
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    away from using these historical
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    forecasting approaches and labor market
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    intelligent approaches and look at using
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    more more current data and different
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    approaches that allows us to get timely
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    insights into particularly labor markets
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    where there's going to be a lot of
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    change and that relates to labor markets
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    that are driven by new
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    technologies so the goal of this work is
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    really to develop a methodological
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    framework that allows us to identify
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    what are the important new technologies
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    that are emerging within the Irish labor
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    market to forecast the extent to which
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    uh we have sufficient provision in terms
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    of the number of places within the Irish
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    system to to meet that demand going
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    forward and ideally uh we also want to
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    look at what are the types of skills and
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    competencies uh that these new courses
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    will will will will will demand in terms
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    of the technical skills and the other
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    types of competencies that will be
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    required so that there is enough
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    information in terms of the um the
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    number of courses um that are required
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    in terms of these new emerging
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    Technologies and also the skills and
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    competencies that should be contained
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    within the curriculum to inform the
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    policy side of things in terms of the
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    fet profis and people that are involved
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    in this meeting um at the
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    moment and really the goal of our
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    research is is was to set up and develop
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    this methodology that then can be used
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    going forward um so this can be
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    reran next year and the situation might
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    change might have Chang radically in
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    terms of these technologies that are
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    that are out there they may be more
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    diffusion in the labor market this type
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    of approach will pick that up our new
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    technologies will emerge this approach
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    will will will spot that so it's it's to
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    develop a dynamic framework in terms of
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    Labor Market intelligence that allows us
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    to capture new skills um as they emerge
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    in ter in terms of employment and also
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    um to allow
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    for a system that will that will capture
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    changes in those demands as we move
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    forward so I'm not going to go into an
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    awful lot of the methodology in terms of
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    exactly um what we did but basically we
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    started off we have a Steering group um
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    and we asked for 10 or 12
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    areas of new technology that were deemed
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    to be potentially important out there in
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    the
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    world and what we did then was we went
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    in and we scraped a number of vacancy
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    job job vacancy sites such as LinkedIn
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    and jobs.ie Etc um to see exactly how
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    important all of these terms were in
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    terms of the actual number of job
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    adverts uh that were being um put out by
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    employers and
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    when we completed that exercise we found
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    that in terms of these new technology
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    areas um the the highest number of job
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    adverts were in Automation and
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    artificial intelligence so those were
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    employers that specifically were trying
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    to hire into these fields um another um
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    aspect that we included here was
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    blockchain because blockchain has also
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    been deemed to be important at a
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    European level um and actually my team
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    and the SRI have been running running
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    the the forecasts for blockchain jobs
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    for at an EU level for the last number
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    of years um both for for for a project
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    that's been funded by arasmus so again
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    this work sort of Builds on the
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    methodologies that we developed for that
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    blockchain work for the EU but
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    specifically focusing in now on the
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    Irish labor
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    market so what are the goals of This
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    research first of all we will PR provide
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    a detailed analysis of the trends in
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    terms of the the number of jobs that are
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    being advertised for these emerging
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    Technologies in Ireland and how they're
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    changing over
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    time we will then map those jobs we will
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    take those jobs and we will create
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    forecasts for both the total demand for
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    jobs going forward over a fiveyear
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    period and then we figure out what
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    proportion of those jobs are related to
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    new graduates and then we map those
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    against what we think the supply of new
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    graduates in these three specific areas
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    are will be that is uh blockchain Ai and
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    Automation in addition to checking
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    whether or not we have the right number
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    of graduates in these areas or
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    sufficient number of graduates in these
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    areas we also look and use the
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    information within this job
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    advertisement data to look at the
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    competencies and skills uh that
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    employers are requiring in each area and
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    specifically we break them down into the
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    technical skills um that employers are
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    looking for the business related skills
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    and the transversal skills and clearly
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    these are factors that should inform
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    curriculum development in each array so
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    it's important to have obviously the
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    right numbers of graduates but it's also
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    important that these courses are
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    equipping the graduates with the correct
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    competencies that employers are at least
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    asking for we also measure the extent
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    and we develop a methodology that allows
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    us to measure the extent to which jobs
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    are vacancies men
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    be remain on M there may be unfilled
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    vacancies or skill shortages in each
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    respective are area and we also in this
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    research um have carried out a number of
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    consultative workshops with employers
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    for the purposes of a verifying that
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    they're that what we've produced here is
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    reasonable in their View and then to get
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    more information in terms of the skills
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    and competencies in the current state of
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    both the demand for emerging
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    Technologies and Perceptions in terms of
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    the adequacy of what's be produced by
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    the Education and Training
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    Systems so in terms of our of our data
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    here we use a number of sources to to
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    measure the demand for new jobs in these
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    emerging Technologies we use data from
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    lightcast data this is a data source
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    that basically captures everything
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    that's out there in the world in terms
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    of job advertisement data this data is
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    been currently be used by you know the
  • 00:13:24
    um European commission uses it for their
  • 00:13:26
    ovet tool the ILO the oecd uh so this is
  • 00:13:29
    a very very widely used um labor market
  • 00:13:33
    intelligence data source uh that has
  • 00:13:36
    been harnessed by uh by most of the main
  • 00:13:39
    agencies and out there both at a
  • 00:13:40
    European level an oecd level and at a
  • 00:13:43
    national level as well we also um scrap
  • 00:13:47
    LinkedIn data ourselves uh for Ireland
  • 00:13:50
    um and then we plug everything into the
  • 00:13:51
    sadif fob um forecasting system in order
  • 00:13:55
    to generate our forecast of what we
  • 00:13:57
    think the number of total jobs in each
  • 00:13:59
    area will be over a period and also what
  • 00:14:02
    will the number of jobs related to new
  • 00:14:05
    graduates be the supply side data uh
  • 00:14:08
    comes from was provided to us by the H
  • 00:14:10
    uh Solus and qqi basically on the number
  • 00:14:12
    of courses that are being produced in
  • 00:14:15
    each of these areas AI automated and
  • 00:14:17
    blockchain and as I said we also do the
  • 00:14:20
    consultation with the
  • 00:14:23
    employers so the first thing to look at
  • 00:14:25
    this is the um the share of light cast
  • 00:14:28
    this is basic B the share of the jobs in
  • 00:14:31
    each of these areas uh using the light
  • 00:14:33
    cast data for Ireland over the period uh
  • 00:14:36
    20 18 to 2023 so the first point to make
  • 00:14:40
    is whilst there's a lot of talk about
  • 00:14:42
    the importance particularly of AI and
  • 00:14:44
    Automation in the past less so
  • 00:14:46
    blockchain actually um these jobs that
  • 00:14:50
    require specialist skills in these areas
  • 00:14:53
    are are quite small um and they're not
  • 00:14:56
    really growing very rapidly over time so
  • 00:14:58
    if you look at for example automation
  • 00:15:01
    that is the largest uh grouping in terms
  • 00:15:04
    of these emerging Technologies so that
  • 00:15:06
    accounts for about one and a half% of
  • 00:15:08
    all jobs that are advertised within the
  • 00:15:10
    lightcast data for Ireland over time and
  • 00:15:12
    it hasn't changed very much the the AI
  • 00:15:15
    there you can see it's it's between half
  • 00:15:16
    a percent and 1.2% and you can see the
  • 00:15:20
    blockchain actually is very very small
  • 00:15:21
    at less than 0.2 of a% of total jobs
  • 00:15:25
    that are advertised in Ireland over the
  • 00:15:27
    this period and and many going in very
  • 00:15:29
    much and that's something that we picked
  • 00:15:31
    up in our forecasts uh when we were
  • 00:15:33
    doing the work on blockchain at an EU
  • 00:15:35
    level and this isn't just an Ireland in
  • 00:15:37
    terms of that flatlining demand for
  • 00:15:39
    blockchain jobs it's it's an EU wide
  • 00:15:42
    pattern and we are not unique in this so
  • 00:15:46
    if you look at this chart this is the
  • 00:15:48
    pattern of AI job growth using lightcast
  • 00:15:51
    data uh for a number of countries and
  • 00:15:53
    you can see um whilst it's generally
  • 00:15:56
    trading up in some countries it's it's
  • 00:15:57
    flatter but it's basically between half
  • 00:15:59
    a percent and 1 and a half% of all jobs
  • 00:16:02
    that are advertised so it's not the case
  • 00:16:06
    that these jobs are are are growing
  • 00:16:09
    massively in Ireland over time they
  • 00:16:11
    they're not that's not to say that these
  • 00:16:13
    Technologies aren't being diffused
  • 00:16:14
    throughout other jobs we are looking
  • 00:16:16
    basically here at Specialists required
  • 00:16:19
    to work in the areas of blockchain AI
  • 00:16:22
    and Automation and so the trends are
  • 00:16:23
    quite small and they're they're
  • 00:16:26
    relatively um flat
  • 00:16:30
    so how do we measure the demand uh and
  • 00:16:32
    Supply going forward for these three
  • 00:16:35
    areas well basically what we do is we
  • 00:16:38
    use the lightcast data and we figure out
  • 00:16:40
    exactly how for example automation jobs
  • 00:16:43
    are distributed across
  • 00:16:45
    occupations um and once we figure out
  • 00:16:47
    what sure that for example AI makes up
  • 00:16:52
    of of of say the um of an occupation
  • 00:16:55
    then we can plug that into the um to the
  • 00:16:58
    forecasting and we can run forecasts for
  • 00:17:00
    a 5year period so if we look here in
  • 00:17:03
    terms of the AI jobs when we script the
  • 00:17:07
    data from uh from light class and then
  • 00:17:09
    we look at how that's distributed across
  • 00:17:11
    occupation so we can see that for
  • 00:17:13
    example the AI jobs uh 80% of them are
  • 00:17:17
    are contained within just 10 occupations
  • 00:17:19
    and specifically when we look at 30% of
  • 00:17:22
    all I jobs are are information and
  • 00:17:24
    communication uh professionals
  • 00:17:26
    occupation about 11% 12% in science and
  • 00:17:30
    engineering professionals and then about
  • 00:17:32
    further 11% in uh business and
  • 00:17:35
    Associated professionals and then the
  • 00:17:37
    shares uh fall off uh quite considerably
  • 00:17:40
    and and then about 20% of all AI jobs
  • 00:17:43
    are outside of these
  • 00:17:45
    occupations so basically what we do here
  • 00:17:48
    is for example we would say What
  • 00:17:49
    proportion of the total share of ICT
  • 00:17:52
    professionals are AI workers so say
  • 00:17:56
    that's 2% we then plug that 2% into the
  • 00:17:59
    saop data um and the basis of what is
  • 00:18:02
    forecast by saop for information and
  • 00:18:05
    communication Professionals for Ireland
  • 00:18:08
    over a 5year period 2% of those jobs
  • 00:18:10
    will be allocated to Ai and we do that
  • 00:18:13
    across all occupations so in that way we
  • 00:18:16
    figure out what the total demand for
  • 00:18:18
    these occupations will be uh over a
  • 00:18:20
    5year
  • 00:18:21
    period so there's a couple of things to
  • 00:18:23
    note there you may say well the
  • 00:18:26
    situation next year could be very
  • 00:18:27
    different these are rapidly changing OC
  • 00:18:30
    occupations and job areas that's true so
  • 00:18:33
    then all we need to do next year is to
  • 00:18:35
    go in here rerun this analysis if we see
  • 00:18:38
    increased shares or increased diffusion
  • 00:18:41
    across other occupations that would be
  • 00:18:43
    picked up immediately and the forecast
  • 00:18:45
    could be updated immediately so when I'm
  • 00:18:47
    saying that the key to this methodology
  • 00:18:49
    is that is highly Dynamic that it can be
  • 00:18:52
    updated almost immediately if there are
  • 00:18:54
    changes in the labor market position of
  • 00:18:56
    the emerging technologies that we've
  • 00:18:58
    identified or new technologies come on
  • 00:19:00
    board then we can do that very very
  • 00:19:02
    easily you couldn't do that using the
  • 00:19:04
    historical uh data approaches that I
  • 00:19:07
    spoke about
  • 00:19:09
    earlier then we uh we also
  • 00:19:12
    simultaneously scried uh LinkedIn data
  • 00:19:14
    for Ireland and we figured out what
  • 00:19:17
    proportion of total jobs in each area
  • 00:19:20
    require experienced graduates and these
  • 00:19:22
    are all graduate level jobs or What
  • 00:19:24
    proportion experience require uh new
  • 00:19:27
    entrance and about 40 we estimate around
  • 00:19:29
    40% of all jobs in each of these areas
  • 00:19:32
    are for new entrance and we use that to
  • 00:19:34
    calculate our new entrant demand so new
  • 00:19:38
    entrance demand for a for over the
  • 00:19:39
    forecast period will be 40% of the total
  • 00:19:42
    demand in each
  • 00:19:43
    area I hope that's probably as clear as
  • 00:19:46
    mud but anyway on the supply side then
  • 00:19:49
    we just look at the number of courses
  • 00:19:51
    that are available in each area this is
  • 00:19:53
    information that's given to us uh from a
  • 00:19:55
    range of sources including hii Solace
  • 00:19:57
    and qqi so they tell us the number of um
  • 00:20:01
    the courses in Ai blockchain and
  • 00:20:03
    automation over the 2020 and 21 period
  • 00:20:06
    we aage them and then we multiply them
  • 00:20:08
    by um by by four in order to get the
  • 00:20:11
    total Supply over the forecast period so
  • 00:20:14
    it's quite of a it's quite a a
  • 00:20:16
    mechanical exercise and then we map
  • 00:20:18
    Supply against demand so here the total
  • 00:20:20
    demand for artificial intelligence jobs
  • 00:20:23
    over the forecast period 21 to 25 and we
  • 00:20:26
    also do it for 25 to 2030 was two and a
  • 00:20:29
    half
  • 00:20:30
    thousand 40% of that would be the um
  • 00:20:34
    would be the The Graduate demand uh so
  • 00:20:37
    that's just over a thousand and we
  • 00:20:39
    figure out that on the basis of the
  • 00:20:41
    information that we've been given there
  • 00:20:43
    will be about 1,500 uh places uh in
  • 00:20:46
    terms of graduates coming out onto the
  • 00:20:48
    labor market over that period um so if
  • 00:20:50
    you look across the board it looks as if
  • 00:20:52
    uh graduate demand has been more met by
  • 00:20:55
    Supply particularly in artificial
  • 00:20:57
    intelligence not so much in blockchain
  • 00:20:59
    but we figure that there are actually
  • 00:21:00
    more potential courses out there in
  • 00:21:02
    blockchain than than the 80 that's been
  • 00:21:04
    that was been specified to us blockchain
  • 00:21:06
    is another one specifically that may not
  • 00:21:09
    necessarily require specialist graduates
  • 00:21:11
    but could be facilitated by having
  • 00:21:13
    blockchain modules in general ICT
  • 00:21:16
    degrees but um the based on how these
  • 00:21:20
    Technologies are diffused throughout the
  • 00:21:22
    labor market at the moment there doesn't
  • 00:21:24
    seem to be any worries in terms of the
  • 00:21:26
    ability of the Irish system to meet the
  • 00:21:28
    needs of the labor market in terms of
  • 00:21:30
    the demand for new graduates uh going
  • 00:21:33
    forward over the forecast period and we
  • 00:21:34
    do this also for uh
  • 00:21:37
    2025 to
  • 00:21:39
    2029 again the details are all in the
  • 00:21:43
    reports so another issue um to deal with
  • 00:21:46
    to look at here is even if you've got
  • 00:21:48
    the numbers right in terms of okay we
  • 00:21:50
    have enough graduates to meet demand
  • 00:21:51
    across these three emerging technology
  • 00:21:54
    areas if the curriculum structure isn't
  • 00:21:58
    correct and not meeting the needs of
  • 00:21:59
    employers if they're not getting the
  • 00:22:01
    skills that employers require uh then um
  • 00:22:04
    you still have a problem you still will
  • 00:22:05
    have skill shortages so again we use
  • 00:22:09
    light cast data in order to understand
  • 00:22:12
    what are the
  • 00:22:13
    main competencies that are required
  • 00:22:17
    within these three emerging Technologies
  • 00:22:18
    and how what are the correlations
  • 00:22:20
    between them um and and and and what are
  • 00:22:23
    and what are the the skills that are
  • 00:22:26
    area specific if you want so we I'm
  • 00:22:29
    giving you the results here for um the
  • 00:22:31
    total taxonomy for all jobs but we also
  • 00:22:34
    break it down in the report to look
  • 00:22:36
    specifically at the taxonomy in terms of
  • 00:22:38
    the skills and the competencies that are
  • 00:22:41
    required by employers for new graduates
  • 00:22:43
    so that would be more relevant again for
  • 00:22:44
    the curriculum um development side of
  • 00:22:47
    things whereas the skills and
  • 00:22:49
    competencies required across all
  • 00:22:50
    graduates our senior graduates is more
  • 00:22:52
    an issue in terms of lifelong
  • 00:22:54
    learning the taxomony that diecast use
  • 00:22:57
    they break it into into the technical
  • 00:23:00
    the competencies that are required in
  • 00:23:01
    terms of Technical and hard skills
  • 00:23:03
    business skills and then these soft
  • 00:23:05
    transversal
  • 00:23:07
    skills and the first thing to note is
  • 00:23:09
    that across all three areas um whilst
  • 00:23:13
    obviously hard tactical skills are
  • 00:23:16
    important um just under half of uh the
  • 00:23:21
    competencies that are that are being
  • 00:23:23
    requested for example by employers into
  • 00:23:24
    automation our business and transversal
  • 00:23:27
    um that figures just over 40% for
  • 00:23:30
    artificial intelligence and 40% for
  • 00:23:32
    blockchain skills so the first thing
  • 00:23:34
    that emerges in terms of without looking
  • 00:23:36
    at the specific competencies is that
  • 00:23:38
    there is at least employers are asking
  • 00:23:41
    uh for a high level of of Competency in
  • 00:23:44
    both transversal and business
  • 00:23:46
    competencies among for among new
  • 00:23:48
    graduates entering the labor market in
  • 00:23:51
    these emerging areas it isn't certainly
  • 00:23:52
    all about having technical
  • 00:23:57
    skills then we we um we look across the
  • 00:24:00
    technical skills that are been asked for
  • 00:24:02
    and and we look for similarities and
  • 00:24:05
    basically these are the top 10 skills
  • 00:24:07
    that are being asked for in these job
  • 00:24:08
    adverts so for example in jobs that we
  • 00:24:10
    identified for a for automation 34% of
  • 00:24:15
    adverts ask for control um systems
  • 00:24:19
    competencies if you look at artificial
  • 00:24:21
    intelligence 61% of the of the job
  • 00:24:23
    adverts in that area asked for um
  • 00:24:27
    competency in machine learning learning
  • 00:24:29
    and then if you look at blockchain uh
  • 00:24:30
    31% of those jobs that the most
  • 00:24:32
    frequently um requested competency was
  • 00:24:35
    agile
  • 00:24:36
    methodologies and then we have a coding
  • 00:24:38
    system if a competency is asked
  • 00:24:41
    in two of the uh of the emerging
  • 00:24:45
    technology areas the code is orange if
  • 00:24:48
    it is in three it's green if it is in
  • 00:24:50
    Black it is H in if it there only asked
  • 00:24:54
    specifically in one area then the it's
  • 00:24:56
    black so what we see for example in
  • 00:24:59
    computer science that owns one on
  • 00:25:01
    artificial intelligence computer science
  • 00:25:03
    is in the top 10 competencies that's
  • 00:25:05
    required in blockchain and in artificial
  • 00:25:07
    intelligence the same with agile
  • 00:25:10
    methodology none of the competencies
  • 00:25:12
    that are being requested by Employers in
  • 00:25:14
    automation are common to either
  • 00:25:17
    artificial intelligence or blockchain so
  • 00:25:20
    that's important to note that the the
  • 00:25:22
    competencies the Tactical competen
  • 00:25:24
    required for automation jobs are very
  • 00:25:26
    specific um whereas there is a common
  • 00:25:29
    sort of there is a commonality between
  • 00:25:30
    the competencies that are required uh
  • 00:25:33
    for artificial intelligence and
  • 00:25:35
    blockchain when we look at then the
  • 00:25:38
    business skills that are asked for in
  • 00:25:39
    these adverts we see much more
  • 00:25:42
    commonality for example we we're
  • 00:25:43
    starting to see green occurring here so
  • 00:25:47
    uh management skills are asked for in
  • 00:25:49
    automation jobs intelligence artificial
  • 00:25:52
    intelligence jobs and blockchain jobs
  • 00:25:54
    that that is the most common business
  • 00:25:56
    related competency um there are
  • 00:25:58
    competencies that are only common to
  • 00:26:00
    artificial intelligence and blockchain
  • 00:26:02
    such as marketing and business
  • 00:26:03
    development and then there are still a
  • 00:26:05
    series of business related competencies
  • 00:26:08
    in automation that are specific to
  • 00:26:10
    automation jobs process Improvement
  • 00:26:12
    procurement training and development and
  • 00:26:14
    time management and change
  • 00:26:16
    management and then when we look at
  • 00:26:17
    these transversal skills that are being
  • 00:26:19
    requested by employers again uh these
  • 00:26:22
    these common competencies are there's
  • 00:26:24
    much more commonality you can see that
  • 00:26:26
    there's 1 2 3 4 5 six seven of the top
  • 00:26:28
    10 uh competencies are being required
  • 00:26:31
    across all three areas with
  • 00:26:34
    Communications uh being the top one
  • 00:26:36
    across all three areas problem solving
  • 00:26:39
    also uh proving to be a highly requested
  • 00:26:42
    competency across all three emerging
  • 00:26:44
    tech technology
  • 00:26:46
    areas so we also do this in the report
  • 00:26:49
    um for hard skills uh transversal
  • 00:26:51
    business skills again separated out the
  • 00:26:54
    demands that are put in place for jobs
  • 00:26:58
    that are at the new graduate level only
  • 00:27:00
    so those competency and that information
  • 00:27:02
    would be more relevant uh
  • 00:27:05
    for program development and particularly
  • 00:27:07
    at the undergraduate
  • 00:27:10
    level we also um try and measure the
  • 00:27:13
    extent to which firms are struggling to
  • 00:27:15
    fill posts in either in any of these
  • 00:27:18
    areas we do that using LinkedIn
  • 00:27:21
    data um and what we see is we the the
  • 00:27:24
    value of the LinkedIn data is it tells
  • 00:27:26
    us it has a good measure of how long the
  • 00:27:28
    advert is live for it also tells us the
  • 00:27:31
    number of applications um that any
  • 00:27:34
    particular ad gets but on on the online
  • 00:27:37
    system so you can see for example that
  • 00:27:40
    across all three um areas the average
  • 00:27:44
    duration of an ad is been 10 or 11 days
  • 00:27:47
    the average number of applicants for
  • 00:27:49
    each job is between 33 and 50 so what we
  • 00:27:53
    say here is a job is likely to be
  • 00:27:55
    struggling or there's likely to be a
  • 00:27:59
    difficulty in terms of filling that job
  • 00:28:01
    if it has a duration of more than 30
  • 00:28:03
    days so it's three times longer than the
  • 00:28:05
    average and it has less than 10
  • 00:28:08
    applications okay so it's it's it's it's
  • 00:28:11
    it has potentially less than 20% of the
  • 00:28:14
    average number of people applying for it
  • 00:28:16
    those we're not saying that those jobs
  • 00:28:18
    are all likely to be skill shortages but
  • 00:28:20
    the skill shortages are likely deeper
  • 00:28:22
    content in that clump of jobs and when
  • 00:28:25
    we look across then our measure we
  • 00:28:28
    estimate that around 3.9% or less than
  • 00:28:31
    4% of jobs in blockchain are likely to
  • 00:28:34
    be difficult to fill um but that figure
  • 00:28:37
    Rises for about 7.7% or just under to 8%
  • 00:28:40
    of automation jobs about 6% of jobs we
  • 00:28:44
    estimate in the AI uh labor market are
  • 00:28:46
    likely to be difficult to
  • 00:28:48
    fill we do some econometric analysis in
  • 00:28:52
    that I'll not bore you with that
  • 00:28:53
    particularly but a couple of things um
  • 00:28:56
    did arise in terms when we looked at the
  • 00:28:58
    potential skill shortages we didn't find
  • 00:29:00
    any evidence when we controlled for
  • 00:29:02
    other things uh that potential skill
  • 00:29:04
    shortages are are statistically higher
  • 00:29:06
    in any one of the three areas compared
  • 00:29:08
    to the other two um there may be a
  • 00:29:11
    problem in terms of new graduates um
  • 00:29:14
    within the automation um job
  • 00:29:17
    market and and within particularly AI
  • 00:29:20
    within within manufacturing the
  • 00:29:21
    manufacturing sector and we did find
  • 00:29:23
    that where jobs tended to have remote or
  • 00:29:26
    hybrid working
  • 00:29:28
    advertised as part of their um their job
  • 00:29:31
    terms and conditions those jobs were
  • 00:29:33
    much less likely to be U classified as
  • 00:29:37
    skill potential skill shortages so the
  • 00:29:39
    jobs that had the hybrid working uh or
  • 00:29:42
    the remote working not surprisingly were
  • 00:29:44
    more likely to be filled more quickly in
  • 00:29:47
    each of these
  • 00:29:48
    areas and then moving on to the final
  • 00:29:51
    part of our analysis we basically asked
  • 00:29:53
    then we had a series of workshops mostly
  • 00:29:56
    um the firms that that attend the these
  • 00:29:58
    workshops were really from the large uh
  • 00:30:00
    multinational end of things were were
  • 00:30:03
    tended to be more over
  • 00:30:06
    represented so we asked them um
  • 00:30:08
    basically do you think our methodology
  • 00:30:10
    is sensible do the numbers look okay and
  • 00:30:14
    generally the employers felt that
  • 00:30:18
    our our methods looked looked perfectly
  • 00:30:21
    fine and our numbers looked sensible but
  • 00:30:23
    they did say that there was a risk in
  • 00:30:24
    terms of the a AI labor market that the
  • 00:30:27
    job could be that are demanded there in
  • 00:30:30
    the future could be much higher than
  • 00:30:31
    what we are predicting but as I said the
  • 00:30:35
    because we have a dynamic approach here
  • 00:30:37
    if we do see a rise in uh jobs in
  • 00:30:40
    particular for instance Ai and so there
  • 00:30:42
    there's higher shares across the the
  • 00:30:44
    occupations that we looked at are across
  • 00:30:46
    other occupations we could see that auto
  • 00:30:48
    automatically on and immediately we
  • 00:30:50
    could update our
  • 00:30:52
    forecasts in terms of then the
  • 00:30:55
    um other issues that the employers
  • 00:30:58
    again um in terms of what is needed in
  • 00:31:01
    the labor market they players F
  • 00:31:04
    particularly in terms of AI there was a
  • 00:31:06
    substantial amount of legal ethical and
  • 00:31:09
    Regulatory change coming down the road
  • 00:31:11
    so they pointed to example for the EU
  • 00:31:13
    artificial intelligence act um and there
  • 00:31:15
    was a similar concern for blockchain as
  • 00:31:17
    well we're seeing increased regulation
  • 00:31:19
    there and that in addition to the the
  • 00:31:22
    technical uh people and the people with
  • 00:31:24
    the technical skills there is also going
  • 00:31:26
    to be a strong demand the employ first
  • 00:31:28
    FA for people who can Implement and deal
  • 00:31:30
    with the legal requirements and the
  • 00:31:32
    regulators and the change in regulation
  • 00:31:34
    requirement as we go forward so so there
  • 00:31:37
    there is an increased demand for for
  • 00:31:39
    legal Specialists and Regulatory
  • 00:31:41
    specialists in these areas um and the
  • 00:31:43
    employers felt that is important that
  • 00:31:45
    policy needs to adjust in that respect
  • 00:31:47
    as well to to help firms adjust to
  • 00:31:51
    change in regular environment in these
  • 00:31:53
    key technology areas going
  • 00:31:56
    forward the employers also felt that
  • 00:31:59
    again in consistent with what we found
  • 00:32:01
    when we with the LinkedIn dat with the
  • 00:32:03
    dcast data was that there is a strong
  • 00:32:06
    need for transversal skills and work
  • 00:32:08
    experience at entty level so people
  • 00:32:10
    coming out from degrees um there was a
  • 00:32:13
    sense that maybe the um the community
  • 00:32:16
    the transversal um and and the and the
  • 00:32:18
    business skills of current graduates um
  • 00:32:22
    aren't what they have been in the past
  • 00:32:23
    and that Co may have been um an
  • 00:32:25
    explanation for for some of that um
  • 00:32:29
    again in in addition to um teaching
  • 00:32:33
    graduates or students technical
  • 00:32:36
    capabilities um they they felt that it
  • 00:32:38
    was also important that students had
  • 00:32:40
    business capabilities that would teach
  • 00:32:42
    them actually how to adapt with new
  • 00:32:45
    technologies in a business environment
  • 00:32:47
    and and that those skills to some extent
  • 00:32:49
    needed to be they would like to see more
  • 00:32:51
    of those capabilities in terms of the
  • 00:32:53
    graduates that are coming on to the
  • 00:32:55
    labor market again the importance of
  • 00:32:57
    micr finals as a as a as a as a valuable
  • 00:33:00
    tool to facilitate lifelong learning was
  • 00:33:04
    um and upskilling was emphasized by the
  • 00:33:05
    employers although there was concern
  • 00:33:08
    that perhaps these weren't being adopted
  • 00:33:10
    into the
  • 00:33:11
    qqi qualification framework as quickly
  • 00:33:14
    as as they would like and if if
  • 00:33:15
    obviously if these microc credentials
  • 00:33:17
    aren't widely recognized and aren't
  • 00:33:19
    transferable then people are less likely
  • 00:33:22
    to engage in
  • 00:33:24
    them um and again there was a need they
  • 00:33:26
    felt for IND and educational
  • 00:33:29
    institutions uh to to collaborate more
  • 00:33:32
    more more effectively and more
  • 00:33:33
    intensively in order to smooth the
  • 00:33:35
    transition uh from education to work for
  • 00:33:38
    for young people graduating in these
  • 00:33:42
    areas so in terms of uh just to sum up
  • 00:33:46
    in terms of our conclusions um so what
  • 00:33:49
    we think we have um attempted to do here
  • 00:33:52
    is is developing a methodology that will
  • 00:33:54
    allow us to identify um new and emerging
  • 00:33:58
    technologies that are relevant
  • 00:34:00
    particularly in for the Irish labor
  • 00:34:02
    market as they emerge and as they evolve
  • 00:34:05
    over time a technology that is highly
  • 00:34:07
    Dynamic and that will allow us uh
  • 00:34:10
    to to update uh the forecast and feed
  • 00:34:13
    that information back into planning um
  • 00:34:17
    as things
  • 00:34:19
    evolve so I said the the objective then
  • 00:34:22
    why are we doing this we're doing this
  • 00:34:23
    so we have a system of in terms of lab
  • 00:34:26
    Market intelligence and foresight
  • 00:34:28
    uh that is dynamic uh that that can
  • 00:34:31
    then translate into changes in in both
  • 00:34:35
    the level and the nature of provision
  • 00:34:37
    that will hopefully um help avoid skill
  • 00:34:40
    shortages occurring in these key
  • 00:34:42
    emerging technologies that are likely to
  • 00:34:44
    be very important uh in terms of the
  • 00:34:47
    future and continuing Economic
  • 00:34:48
    Development as of the country as a
  • 00:34:54
    whole we think that um generally
  • 00:34:57
    speaking the research findings suggest
  • 00:35:00
    that Ireland is relatively well placed
  • 00:35:02
    to meet the demands for the emerging
  • 00:35:04
    technologies that we've looked at um at
  • 00:35:06
    the moment in terms of the level of um
  • 00:35:10
    the level of courses that are being
  • 00:35:12
    produced compared to what we think the
  • 00:35:13
    number of graduates um that that are
  • 00:35:16
    being required there are issues that
  • 00:35:18
    need to be dealt with in terms of the
  • 00:35:20
    regulatory environment and it's
  • 00:35:23
    important also both the evidence from
  • 00:35:25
    our lightcast theer and our consultation
  • 00:35:28
    uh to ensure that
  • 00:35:31
    um that the competencies that that
  • 00:35:35
    students and graduates have are not just
  • 00:35:37
    focused on the hard competencies but
  • 00:35:39
    also the the rising importance of the
  • 00:35:41
    technical and business competencies and
  • 00:35:43
    this is something that we've picked up
  • 00:35:45
    in our own research when we look at the
  • 00:35:46
    high technology changes labor
  • 00:35:49
    markets there were some catastrophic
  • 00:35:52
    sort of predictions that you know 50 60%
  • 00:35:54
    of jobs would be automated now we've got
  • 00:35:56
    the data what we can actually see is
  • 00:35:59
    that as technology is introduced it
  • 00:36:02
    tends to change the the content and the
  • 00:36:04
    skill competencies within jobs it tends
  • 00:36:06
    not to wipe jobs out uh and what tends
  • 00:36:09
    to happen is that the more manial and
  • 00:36:12
    basic tasks tend to get automated away
  • 00:36:15
    um so that there's greater need then
  • 00:36:17
    within jobs there's more focus on higher
  • 00:36:19
    level competencies and particularly
  • 00:36:22
    communication skills and transversal
  • 00:36:24
    skills then become much more uh
  • 00:36:26
    important in that cont
  • 00:36:28
    contexts and that was certainly
  • 00:36:29
    something um that was emphasized To Us
  • 00:36:33
    by the employers when we spoke to um
  • 00:36:36
    this is not a One-Shot finally this is
  • 00:36:38
    not a oneshot uh operation we just don't
  • 00:36:41
    run this once and walk away what we've
  • 00:36:43
    tried to do here is to develop a
  • 00:36:45
    methodology that for instance can't sit
  • 00:36:47
    in the department the analysis can be
  • 00:36:49
    rerun on a on an annual basis so the the
  • 00:36:54
    change in nature of a demand
  • 00:36:56
    particularly for a emerging Technologies
  • 00:36:59
    can be continually monitored both in
  • 00:37:01
    terms of the levels of jobs that are
  • 00:37:03
    being
  • 00:37:05
    um advertised but also the competencies
  • 00:37:08
    and the skills that are being requested
  • 00:37:10
    uh within within them so it's it's more
  • 00:37:12
    of uh the we feel that our contribution
  • 00:37:15
    here is goes beyond saying okay we're
  • 00:37:17
    okay in terms of the number of courses
  • 00:37:19
    um of or the number of degrees going out
  • 00:37:23
    in these areas over the next five year
  • 00:37:25
    period it's more about developing this
  • 00:37:27
    and taking it away uh and developing it
  • 00:37:30
    as a tool that hopefully sits within the
  • 00:37:31
    Departments as a monitoring framework
  • 00:37:34
    and also as a forite framework that will
  • 00:37:36
    help ensure that both provision in key
  • 00:37:40
    areas remains consistent um and meets
  • 00:37:43
    demand both in terms of the level of of
  • 00:37:47
    graduates the number of graduates get
  • 00:37:48
    into the labor market um and also um the
  • 00:37:51
    competencies that are required it also
  • 00:37:53
    helps you distinguish between the
  • 00:37:54
    competencies that are required for new
  • 00:37:56
    graduants from the with respect to those
  • 00:37:58
    with more experience um so distinguishes
  • 00:38:01
    between the so that would happen for
  • 00:38:03
    them in terms of curriculum development
  • 00:38:04
    and distinguish between the needs and
  • 00:38:06
    the competencies for new graduates as
  • 00:38:08
    opposed to those that would be better
  • 00:38:10
    placed within lifelong learning programs
  • 00:38:12
    or micro
  • 00:38:14
    credentials so yeah that's
  • 00:38:18
    that's all I have to say on the research
  • 00:38:21
    so I'll stop sharing now or maybe David
  • 00:38:22
    you can stop
  • 00:38:25
    sharing thanks so much jamus yeah great
  • 00:38:28
    those are those are the slides down uh
  • 00:38:31
    now so listen thanks a lot for that uh
  • 00:38:34
    really interesting
  • 00:38:36
    presentation um colleagues we do have
  • 00:38:39
    time for uh questions and for discussion
  • 00:38:43
    so please do um raise your your hand as
  • 00:38:47
    they say for those unfamiliar with zoom
  • 00:38:50
    the hand can be found under the react uh
  • 00:38:54
    button at the bottom of your screen um
  • 00:38:58
    so maybe while while we wait for uh for
  • 00:39:01
    questions to come through I might uh I
  • 00:39:04
    might take my um chair's uh privilege to
  • 00:39:08
    to to pose one myself um I suppose as
  • 00:39:13
    you say Sheamus it's uh really good to
  • 00:39:15
    see at a high level that I suppose the
  • 00:39:18
    system is is is well um positioned in in
  • 00:39:22
    this particular particular area I think
  • 00:39:25
    it's it it is also really um interesting
  • 00:39:28
    to see those kind of specific uh
  • 00:39:31
    competences um being uh detailed so well
  • 00:39:35
    the ones that are called called out by
  • 00:39:38
    employers and I think that's kind of
  • 00:39:40
    really helpful uh content for for
  • 00:39:44
    colleagues around the call I suppose I'd
  • 00:39:47
    be interested in your thoughts on we we
  • 00:39:50
    hear about kind of the you know move to
  • 00:39:53
    say a uh as they say it a skills first
  • 00:39:58
    approach and if we take kind of
  • 00:40:00
    artificial intelligence as an example
  • 00:40:03
    like you say there's kind of the
  • 00:40:05
    specialist roles for for AI but then
  • 00:40:09
    there's the you know varying roles
  • 00:40:12
    across varying or organizations and
  • 00:40:16
    companies that require you know some H
  • 00:40:20
    uh knowledge and familiarity with
  • 00:40:23
    artificial in intelligence do you have
  • 00:40:26
    any thought thought about you know
  • 00:40:28
    that's maybe a bit harder to capture
  • 00:40:31
    through our national skills
  • 00:40:33
    in intelligence it kind of maybe
  • 00:40:36
    requires us to move away from the
  • 00:40:38
    occupation uh focus and and perhaps have
  • 00:40:41
    a kind of
  • 00:40:42
    wider um view of the relevant courses
  • 00:40:46
    how how might that be incorporated into
  • 00:40:50
    what we
  • 00:40:52
    capture yeah thanks Nora um so those are
  • 00:40:56
    important part Point um and as you said
  • 00:40:59
    there's there's the issue here we're
  • 00:41:00
    we're just capturing the number of jobs
  • 00:41:02
    that are being advertised in these areas
  • 00:41:04
    so Specialists automation Specialists
  • 00:41:07
    and uh blockchain Specialists but that's
  • 00:41:09
    a very different question in terms of uh
  • 00:41:13
    how what are AI competencies what are
  • 00:41:15
    the level of AI competencies that are
  • 00:41:16
    being used in the Li Market and how are
  • 00:41:18
    they been distributed across occupations
  • 00:41:21
    so uh while this tool is useful it is
  • 00:41:23
    not sufficient to to answer everything
  • 00:41:26
    uh because there's a number of problem s
  • 00:41:27
    with using job vacancy data that we've
  • 00:41:30
    figuring out now at the moment first of
  • 00:41:32
    all even if you know the technical
  • 00:41:34
    competencies that are being required
  • 00:41:35
    within these jobs you don't know how
  • 00:41:37
    they're distributed uh so you know for
  • 00:41:39
    example that control systems 34% of jobs
  • 00:41:43
    um are asking that that that automation
  • 00:41:47
    that that competency is required but we
  • 00:41:48
    that doesn't mean to say that it
  • 00:41:50
    accounts for 34% of all techical tasks
  • 00:41:53
    that a person in automation does again
  • 00:41:56
    when we look at the transversal skills
  • 00:41:57
    and we look at the business skills we
  • 00:42:00
    can see what employers are asking for
  • 00:42:01
    those competencies but again we don't
  • 00:42:03
    know how they're distributed within jobs
  • 00:42:05
    how much time does uh people invol take
  • 00:42:09
    undertaking each of those tasks and what
  • 00:42:11
    is the relative sh of it and then as you
  • 00:42:13
    say um we don't know then to what extent
  • 00:42:17
    people are involved in terms of Noni
  • 00:42:19
    Specialists or non automation
  • 00:42:21
    Specialists or non-blockchain specialist
  • 00:42:23
    Specialists doing tasks within their
  • 00:42:26
    jobs that Rel to blockchain relate to
  • 00:42:28
    artificial intelligence and relate to AI
  • 00:42:31
    so in order to do really get a handle on
  • 00:42:33
    that okay you look at what the employers
  • 00:42:35
    are asking for but you need good data in
  • 00:42:37
    terms of the competencies that are used
  • 00:42:40
    within jobs currently and how and
  • 00:42:43
    particularly around digital skills so
  • 00:42:46
    and we don't have that I mean currently
  • 00:42:48
    we do have some information on that we
  • 00:42:50
    have uh the European skills and job
  • 00:42:51
    survey the second wave that was that's a
  • 00:42:53
    survey that was produced by cob looking
  • 00:42:56
    at digital competencies across European
  • 00:42:59
    countries and they ask very specific
  • 00:43:00
    questions around all you know from very
  • 00:43:02
    basic do you use do you use um Excel and
  • 00:43:07
    Word right up to you know what type of
  • 00:43:09
    computer programming do you do so we at
  • 00:43:11
    the moment we're able to look at all
  • 00:43:13
    those competencies at least for 2021 and
  • 00:43:16
    and look at the distribution of those
  • 00:43:17
    tasks both within the key occupations
  • 00:43:20
    but also in terms of the ICT occupations
  • 00:43:23
    and the engineering occupations but also
  • 00:43:25
    throughout the labor market and we can
  • 00:43:26
    compare how Ireland compares to other
  • 00:43:29
    countries in terms of the the
  • 00:43:30
    requirements for those digital
  • 00:43:32
    competencies um but you need to be
  • 00:43:35
    collecting that information regularly uh
  • 00:43:38
    on an annual basis and we don't do that
  • 00:43:40
    we have none of that data in Ireland at
  • 00:43:42
    the moment so um the points that you
  • 00:43:44
    raise are important and they're key for
  • 00:43:47
    for informing policy but we do not have
  • 00:43:49
    the infrastructure here at the moment to
  • 00:43:51
    deliver that information uh to policy
  • 00:43:54
    makers and that's a big problem
  • 00:43:57
    thanks so much for that H Sheamus yeah
  • 00:43:59
    that's that's certainly kind of an
  • 00:44:01
    ongoing conversation and I know for
  • 00:44:04
    example the national skills Council
  • 00:44:06
    newly reformed are kind of looking at
  • 00:44:10
    how uh intelligence is is is um is uh
  • 00:44:14
    collected across the system and I'm sure
  • 00:44:16
    that's that's part of their uh
  • 00:44:19
    conversation too um we have a hand up um
  • 00:44:23
    and I might ask you to introduce
  • 00:44:25
    yourself uh and then pose your question
  • 00:44:28
    thanks yeah so my name is J Connor and
  • 00:44:30
    I'm in uh in University of gway I'm part
  • 00:44:34
    of the adult ed activity there but also
  • 00:44:36
    part of physics uh so I'm very
  • 00:44:38
    interested in
  • 00:44:39
    manufacturing um so these Technologies
  • 00:44:42
    of Automation and certainly AI are very
  • 00:44:44
    relevant for manufacturing and
  • 00:44:45
    interesting to see that um I suppose
  • 00:44:47
    maybe my question is this you know that
  • 00:44:50
    most Technologies follow an S curve so
  • 00:44:53
    they're slow to take off at the start
  • 00:44:56
    then they accelerate through the rapid
  • 00:44:58
    adoption and then they saturate the
  • 00:45:00
    decline and we move on to a different
  • 00:45:02
    technology and I suppose my question is
  • 00:45:04
    are we in danger here of
  • 00:45:07
    underestimating the growth of these
  • 00:45:10
    Technologies like Ai and blockchain and
  • 00:45:13
    in a sense the more advanced
  • 00:45:15
    automation uh by just looking at today's
  • 00:45:18
    data and seeing how it progresses um
  • 00:45:21
    that's a great question Jord and that's
  • 00:45:22
    exactly why we do this so if we look at
  • 00:45:25
    today's data we see the picture as it is
  • 00:45:27
    today you know so this this this was the
  • 00:45:30
    data that was that was these were the
  • 00:45:32
    adverts and the jobs that employers were
  • 00:45:34
    at and the people and the numbers that
  • 00:45:36
    were required uh for 2021 2022 um but
  • 00:45:40
    the the the value with this approach as
  • 00:45:43
    opposed to using the historical labor
  • 00:45:44
    force data that's always a year and a
  • 00:45:46
    half behind is that if we feel that
  • 00:45:49
    things have changed even in a six month
  • 00:45:51
    period we can go straight in uh and we
  • 00:45:54
    can see actually has there been a jump
  • 00:45:56
    in the number of AI jobs blockchain jobs
  • 00:45:59
    automation jobs we can see exactly where
  • 00:46:02
    the where the occupations are that those
  • 00:46:05
    increasing jobs are um and we can then
  • 00:46:09
    update both the demand estimates for now
  • 00:46:11
    and the forecasts going into the future
  • 00:46:13
    we can update the competency information
  • 00:46:15
    that's been required so in a sense yeah
  • 00:46:18
    there is
  • 00:46:19
    a this approach actually is is is
  • 00:46:22
    dynamic in it we use contemporaneous
  • 00:46:25
    information on the basis of we we
  • 00:46:26
    recognize that things can change very
  • 00:46:28
    very radically but it is also approach
  • 00:46:30
    that is highly replicable uh and can be
  • 00:46:33
    updated at any point in order to if
  • 00:46:35
    there's an uptake in employment or an
  • 00:46:37
    uptake in jobs that can be spotted
  • 00:46:38
    straight away where you're not waiting
  • 00:46:40
    18 months for a historical uh uh data to
  • 00:46:44
    come out from the CSO so we feel that
  • 00:46:47
    that that is a a key value in using this
  • 00:46:49
    type of data approach the a but what I
  • 00:46:51
    will say is uh with the S curve again we
  • 00:46:55
    were commissioned by the European
  • 00:46:56
    commission this is going back in 2020
  • 00:46:59
    because the perception was that
  • 00:47:00
    blockchain for example was just going to
  • 00:47:02
    be you know there was going to be um a
  • 00:47:05
    massive growth in terms of blockchain uh
  • 00:47:08
    requirements going forward and what we
  • 00:47:10
    found actually was yeah there was a
  • 00:47:11
    little bit of a surge in 2021 and and
  • 00:47:14
    this is not just for then our forecast
  • 00:47:16
    using this technology we were able to
  • 00:47:17
    pick up the fact that those jobs have
  • 00:47:19
    actually had like the demand for those
  • 00:47:21
    jobs had actually fallen off um in 2022
  • 00:47:24
    and 2023 were were able to pinpoint um
  • 00:47:27
    the occupations where they demand had
  • 00:47:28
    fallen off and we were also able to see
  • 00:47:30
    that actually this happened across most
  • 00:47:33
    countries in the EU uh in the EU but we
  • 00:47:35
    looked at the exception where the demand
  • 00:47:36
    kept on Rising so we were able to spot
  • 00:47:39
    that um very very quickly so the the
  • 00:47:43
    fact that these Technologies are so fast
  • 00:47:45
    moving is why we need forecasting or
  • 00:47:48
    labor market intelligence tools that
  • 00:47:50
    uses Dynamic and current information so
  • 00:47:52
    they can pick those those changes up
  • 00:47:55
    okay thank you very much I just leave
  • 00:47:57
    one other comment I guess these emerging
  • 00:47:59
    Technologies are very significant
  • 00:48:01
    leverage factors you know a good
  • 00:48:03
    automation a good AI specialist in an
  • 00:48:05
    Enterprise will leverage several other
  • 00:48:08
    job growth so it's really important what
  • 00:48:10
    you're doing and I so just want to State
  • 00:48:13
    point and thank you very much I we
  • 00:48:14
    recognize J exactly that we we need to
  • 00:48:17
    be making sure that we're at least we're
  • 00:48:19
    meeting the demands for of employers and
  • 00:48:21
    More in these areas we you know we can
  • 00:48:23
    so it is back in the envelope
  • 00:48:25
    calculations it to some extent but at
  • 00:48:27
    least it is a calculation based on the
  • 00:48:29
    our assessments reasonable assessments
  • 00:48:31
    that are based on what we see in the
  • 00:48:32
    data that we feel that the numbers are
  • 00:48:34
    at least you know sufficient to meet the
  • 00:48:36
    requirements for new graduates but as I
  • 00:48:38
    said the problem actually when you look
  • 00:48:40
    at how skill shortages evolve it's
  • 00:48:42
    usually at the um at the at the at the
  • 00:48:45
    system at the at the two years plus
  • 00:48:47
    experience level within organizations
  • 00:48:49
    you know the more that that is really
  • 00:48:51
    where the the pinch points uh really
  • 00:48:53
    come in terms of of development okay
  • 00:48:56
    thank you very much okay cheers sir
  • 00:48:58
    thanks very much for that um we I think
  • 00:49:01
    we have time for one more uh question
  • 00:49:03
    and Susie if you could introduce
  • 00:49:05
    yourself please hi yeah I'm Susie Jarvis
  • 00:49:09
    from University College Dublin really
  • 00:49:11
    enjoyed the talk and the uh the
  • 00:49:14
    methodology is really fascinating the
  • 00:49:17
    question I had is um obviously there's a
  • 00:49:19
    lot of other data on LinkedIn um where
  • 00:49:23
    individuals talk about the skills they
  • 00:49:25
    have um so I wondered if LinkedIn would
  • 00:49:28
    let you scrape that data so that we
  • 00:49:31
    could actually get some evidence about
  • 00:49:33
    higher education closing skills gaps so
  • 00:49:36
    you would have the job information and
  • 00:49:39
    you would have what skills individuals
  • 00:49:41
    are claiming to have and it would be
  • 00:49:42
    very powerful information I think for
  • 00:49:44
    the higher education sector going
  • 00:49:46
    forward I agree sus and we have you know
  • 00:49:50
    we recognize that there is data in
  • 00:49:51
    LinkedIn that isn't in the lightcast
  • 00:49:53
    data for example that's why we we use
  • 00:49:55
    LinkedIn to measure skill shortages
  • 00:49:57
    because we we can see exactly how how
  • 00:49:59
    long the adverts are there for and how
  • 00:50:02
    many applications they were they're
  • 00:50:04
    getting there are strengths and
  • 00:50:05
    weaknesses across both data sets um so
  • 00:50:08
    the strengths in the like the LinkedIn
  • 00:50:11
    data and we did have good cooperation
  • 00:50:13
    with the people from LinkedIn in this
  • 00:50:14
    study is that they did provide more um
  • 00:50:17
    there's there's more information
  • 00:50:18
    captured within LinkedIn the problem is
  • 00:50:20
    in that that um actually the big problem
  • 00:50:23
    from our perspective is is that the jobs
  • 00:50:25
    in LinkedIn aren't linked to the
  • 00:50:27
    occupational framework um so when we did
  • 00:50:30
    our our blockchain work we did that
  • 00:50:32
    using LinkedIn data but we then we had
  • 00:50:34
    to figure out where the jobs then sat
  • 00:50:36
    within the occupational framework so
  • 00:50:38
    then we could feed it into the
  • 00:50:39
    forecasting methodology and that was
  • 00:50:42
    while we could do that for one
  • 00:50:43
    technology for Block it was very very
  • 00:50:45
    time consuming so I feel that LinkedIn
  • 00:50:48
    if LinkedIn can get its act together and
  • 00:50:50
    start and start matching the jobs to
  • 00:50:53
    where they sit within the occupational
  • 00:50:55
    system it's going to be of a lot more
  • 00:50:56
    more use for researchers and people
  • 00:50:58
    interested in how um jobs are evolving
  • 00:51:00
    over time but that that's the main
  • 00:51:03
    weakness of it at the moment but as you
  • 00:51:05
    said it does have a lot of very very
  • 00:51:07
    useful information and they were very
  • 00:51:08
    Cooperative with us and we do use a lot
  • 00:51:10
    of their data so so when you look at the
  • 00:51:12
    report we do exploit a lot of their data
  • 00:51:14
    within
  • 00:51:15
    that great thank you thanks so much for
  • 00:51:18
    that um we we could squeeze in one uh
  • 00:51:22
    one final quick question if um anyone
  • 00:51:24
    wants to put up their hands um in the
  • 00:51:27
    meantime I'll just remind uh colleagues
  • 00:51:30
    that we will be sharing the recording of
  • 00:51:32
    today's webinar H Sheamus's slide and
  • 00:51:36
    also again the the link to the full uh
  • 00:51:40
    report which which has um lots of the
  • 00:51:43
    detailed
  • 00:51:44
    information um if there are no more
  • 00:51:47
    hands going up that's pretty good timing
  • 00:51:50
    for lunch time thanks everyone for
  • 00:51:54
    joining us um many many thanks again uh
  • 00:51:57
    to
  • 00:51:59
    Sham Dr Sheamus mcginness from the
  • 00:52:02
    esri for presenting your uh research
  • 00:52:07
    today fantastic to to disseminate this
  • 00:52:11
    uh more so across the universities and I
  • 00:52:13
    would absolutely encourage colleagues to
  • 00:52:16
    forward on to um interested uh
  • 00:52:19
    colleagues who will be interested in
  • 00:52:20
    seeing this um so thanks again and take
  • 00:52:24
    care
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