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Bridging Business Analysts Competence Gaps: Labor Market Needs Versus Education Standards

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Information and Communication Technologies in Education, Research, and Industrial Applications (ICTERI 2020)

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Efficient human resource management needs accurate assessment and representation of available competencies as well as effective mapping of required competencies for specific jobs and positions. Thus, the definition and identification of competence gaps express differences between acquired and required competencies using a mathematical approach to support accurate competence analytics. Lack of skills and insufficient qualifications of employees are cited as major barriers to the adoption of new technologies in the context of Industry 4.0. These changes require skills for data analytics tasks. The purpose of this paper is to investigate gaps in the preparation of a business analyst between the requirements of the labor market and the standards of study programs. For the IT and other industries, the most important competencies from the study program of Ukrainian High Educational Institutes, which correspond to labor market requirements, were revealed using RStudio. Formation of business analysts’ competencies required in the labor market is created both higher education (47%) and experience of applicants on the labor market (53%).

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  1. Kherson State University, 27, Universitetska Street, Kherson, 73000, Ukraine

    Vitaliy Kobets

  2. Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, 90-A, Vasulkivska Street, Kiev, 03022, Ukraine

    Valeria Yatsenko

  3. Ternopil National Economic University, 11 Lvivska Street, Ternopil, 46001, Ukraine

    Lesia Buiak

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  2. Zaporizhzhia National University, Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine

    Vadim Ermolayev

  3. Universität Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria

    Heinrich C. Mayr

  4. Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Kyiv, Ukraine

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  5. Kherson State University, Kherson, Ukraine

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  7. University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Olsztyn, Poland

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Kobets, V., Yatsenko, V., Buiak, L. (2021). Bridging Business Analysts Competence Gaps: Labor Market Needs Versus Education Standards. In: Bollin, A., et al. Information and Communication Technologies in Education, Research, and Industrial Applications. ICTERI 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1308. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77592-6_2

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