University of Sindh Journal of Information and Communication Technology (Oct 2017)
Exploring Industrial Demand Trend’s in Pakistan Software Industry Using Online Job Portal Data
Abstract
With the increasing number of internet users, many organizations prefer jobs advertisement via online job portals. Using online job portals data for forecasting industrial demand and trends is becoming popular. Software Industry plays a vital role in economy of developing countries like Pakistan. In this article Pakistan software industry is explored to draw statistical conclusions related to industrial demand for specific job roles, programming languages, gender, age and qualification etc. by data analysis of jobs advertisement. This is done by extracting and analyzing jobs advertised on Pakistan most popular job portal Rozee.pk. The results give an overview of current demand in Pakistan software industry, and are beneficial to student counseling organizations, job applicants, researchers, professionals working in software industry and Government in planning and decision making
