Skillscapes Observatory: A Multi-Level Approach to Skills and Labour Market Intelligence

The Observatory of the Skillscapes project, tracks trends in employment and skills through maps, indicators, and time series, filtered by region, occupation, or skill type.
At this blog post, we will present three of the features that make the observatory stand out.

Starting with the built-in job posting analysis tool, which uses web scraping to:

🔸Gather over 30,000 job postings from multiple platforms across the country
🔹Analyze them automatically and in real time
🔸Uses artificial intelligence to identify the required skills within each job description
Thus, job postings are transformed from job-search texts into indicators that reflect the actual needs of the labor market.


 

Moving on, we present the second feature: the integration, mapping, and analysis of data related to the tourism labor market at the Regional Unit level.
Analyzing the tourism labor market on such a specific geographical scale can contribute to:
🔹 A deeper understanding of the local characteristics of tourism employment and the corresponding skills,
🔸Continuous monitoring of trends through dynamic and time-series data and visualizations
🔹 Identifying variations that are not visible at the regional and national levels
🔸The targeted development of policy recommendations and sound decision-making by local authorities and businesses, and
🔹 The design of more effective training programs based on the actual needs of each region

You can find more data at the Regional Unit level by clicking here.


 

The final feature is the analysis of diverse data across a wide range of geographical scales (Pan-EU scope), from the European level down to the Regional Unit level. This data includes information from both the tourism labour market and skills, as well as related indicators such as tourist arrivals and overnight stays, part-time and full-time or sector-specific employment, unemployment, labour precarity, and more.
This multi-level approach allows for:

🔹 Understanding the formation of skills needs at both the European and local levels
🔸 The identification of common patterns as well as local variations among various European tourism labour markets
🔹 The support of evidence-based decisions, taking into account data from different levels of analysis and different geographical scales
🔸 Linking local realities to broader European developments in tourism

In this way, the observatory offers a comprehensive picture of the tourism (and other) labour market, bridging the gap between the local and European dimensions.

You can explore the observatory and discover more of its features, by clicking here

The Skillscapes project is being implemented as part of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan “Greece 2.0”, funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU.