The tech job market
Reading the market before applying: job offers and job seekers, shortage occupations, open and hidden markets, sources and indicators, from gross to net.
- 30 cards
- 6 topics
- Free
The outline, topic by topic
Each topic is weighted the way the exam weighs it.
- Concepts
- Questions
- Sort and link
- The numbers
- Scenarios
- Understand
A few cards from the deck
Labour market: what is it?
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The place, real or abstract, where employers who want to hire meet people who want a job.
It is read with figures on both sides: how many posts are offered, how many people are looking, and whether their skills match.
A survey gives a graduate employment rate of 90% at 18 months for a professional degree. What does this figure say?
- Among respondents on the labour market, 90% hold a job 18 months after graduating
- Among respondents on the labour market, 90% hold a permanent contract directly linked to the training
- Nine in ten job offers asking for this degree are filled within 18 months of being published
- Nine in ten graduates, respondents or not, found a job on leaving the course, before 18 months
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Among respondents on the labour market, 90% hold a job 18 months after graduating
The employment rate counts jobs of every contract type, among respondents in work or looking for it. The share of stable jobs is a separate indicator in the survey.
A job … is a post proposed by an employer; a job … is a person looking for a post.
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A job vacancy is a post proposed by an employer; a job seeker is a person looking for a post.
The labour market sets these two sides against each other; a shortage appears when vacancies exceed qualified job seekers.
Job vacancies and job seekers: what is it?
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The first are posts that employers propose; the second are people who are looking for a post.
In French statistics, the job "offer" always comes from the employer and the job "demand" from the person looking for work, never the other way round.