Analysis of Logistics Curriculum and Recruitment Requirements Based on Text Mining: A Case Study of China

This study aims to explore the logistics curriculum and the recruitment requirements and to compare the relationship between the two systems. Text mining is applied to collect data from an online recruitment website, extract latent topics, and dynamically visualize the extracted latent topics. The online and on-site survey is conducted to collect logistics curriculum syllabi from 29 selected universities in China. This study demonstrates that (1) The logistics curriculum direction in China mostly meets the employment demands; (2) The curriculum distribution does not fully match the employment demands. That is, knowledge areas of general management and logistics IT are over-supplied, whereas knowledge areas of transportation and distribution are under-supplied. It is suggested that to balance the actual talent demands, Chinese higher education should increase the courses concerning transportation and distribution and appropriately reduce the courses related to logistics IT, and universities need to apply course modules into the logistics curriculum revision to meet the changes in the demand of the employment market. Matching supply with demands in logistics higher education: A case Study of ChinaThis study examines the logistics course offerings and employment demands and further explores whether or not the current logistics curriculum in China meets the logistics demands of employers in the job markets. This study applies text mining to get up-to-date job data via online recruitment websites, obtains the logistics curriculum syllabi from 29 selected universities in China by the survey, and compares courses with employers' requirements in China. The results demonstrate that knowledge areas of general management and logistics IT are over-supplied, whereas knowledge areas of transportation and distribution are under-supplied. This study provides new insights into the curriculum redesign for Chinese logistics Higher Education from curriculum direction and curriculum distribution, indicating how to balance logistics curriculum and employers' demands in China.