Analysis of Skill Demand in Thai Labor Market from Online Jobs Recruitments Websites

In this paper, new method to analyze the skills required from labor market through different jobs recruitments websites is proposed. Skill mismatch which is one type of education-job mismatch becomes one of the major issues and mainly impacts in economic faced by various countries around the world today. There were several proposed analysis methods investigating skill mismatch problem in labor market. However, most of the methods proposed are based on Survey dataset providing the skills from young populations. This paper explores the skills demand in labor market from job recruitment websites which contribute job's information by different job companies in Thailand. The paper makes use of multiple techniques; including web scraping, keyword extraction and visualization on scraped information from job recruitment websites. The final output is reported as word cloud for jobs description and qualification of each job function.