Weekly Viz 2021-08-23
“Entry-level” jobs on LinkedIn require 3+ years of experience
About Makeover Monday
MakeoverMonday is a social data project: “Each week we post a link to a chart, and its data, and then you rework the chart. Maybe you retell the story more effectively, or find a new story in the data. We’re curious to see the different approaches you all take. Whether it’s a simple bar chart or an elaborate infographic, we encourage everyone of all skills to partake. Together we can have broader conversations about and with data.”
Starting from Jan 08, 2018, I decided to put aside one hour on Monday weekly to create some visualization and find some insights from the data.
The datasets are published each week at: MakeoverMonday Datasets.
Makeover Monday 20210823
This week’s dataset is super interesting… I always see posts on LinkedIn complaining unrealistic work experience requirements on job posts, especially the entry-level ones. And this post analyzed all the entry-level LinkedIn job posts since Dec 2017, and provided some quantitative proof on how frequent this happenes – 35% of the entry level posts require 3+ years of work experience lol.
My Visualization
I made a very similar viz to the original one (as the dataset is pretty simple), and added a reference line for the 35% average.
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Please notice that all the visualizations are designed for desktop view, so it is recommended to view them on a desktop device.
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Insights
- On average, 35% of the ‘entry-level’ LinkedIn job posts require 3+ years of work experience;
- But this varies a lot among the different type of jobs – this is most frequent seen on Software & IT Services posts (60%), but least on Retail (8%);
- This also makes me wondering – maybe it’s something related to how different industries / job functions defines their job ladders, and of course the market demand and supply.
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