Jobs and Skills – Same job title can call for very different skills

A potential trap for educators in aligning curriculum development with the job market is that a job title, by itself, doesn’t tell the whole story. The same job title can call for very different skills depending on the locale.

This is an international phenomenon. Burning Glass Technologies has documented this in the United States, but another great example comes from this analysis of skills in demand for market research analysts in two Canadian cities.

Chosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor. Read the whole story @ All Jobs are Local: Canadian Edition | Burning Glass Technologies