Posted
on January 17, 2010, 2:43 am,
by Brendan,
under
Community.
U.S. News & World Report ranked the top 50 careers for 2010. Below is JobTitled links to the top careers in each category.
Science and Technology
Healthcare
Education and Civic
Business and Finance
Creative and Service
This explains their methodology for creating the list:
For this year’s list, U.S. News examined the Labor Department’s brand-new job growth projections for 2008 to 2018. We looked for occupations that will add jobs at an above-average rate over the next decade or so and those that provide an above-average median income. We analyzed the data for jobs with enough bulk to make them worth mentioning. Since not everyone wants to be a nurse or an engineer, we looked for occupations in a broad range of categories. And since not everyone can go back to school for a doctorate, we included a broad range of educational requirements. We also considered, where possible, data on job satisfaction, turnover, and impending retirements,which crank up openings in jobs that may have only slightly above-average employment growth.
We have just added salary information links for each and every job title on JobTitled. The resulting salary charts show the low, typical and high averages for salary for that position on a national level in US dollars. From there you can input the years of experience and location to get more detailed compensation information. The salary data is courtesy of PayScale.com.
After a lot of hard work, we have just finished the launch of JobTitled 1.1. This release is exciting in that we focused heavily on what makes JobTitled so useful: data. We have tripled the amount of source data and improved our algorithms resulting in much improved statistical accuracy and greater breadth of coverage. In addition to the beefed up data, 1.1 brings with it the following new features:
- Industry stats - cross-reference between job titles and industries
- Time in job quartiles - 25th, 50th (median) and 75th percentile time in position
- Context-sensitive help and column headers - to help make sense of it all
- Job Title levels - creates relationships between levels (junior, senior, etc.) and improves data and wiki descriptions
- Visualizing job compare - improved usability of job compare
- User-submitted Job Title merge - allows users to submit equivalent job titles to be joined
More feature details in posts to come… enjoy!
Posted
on November 2, 2009, 9:46 pm,
by Brendan,
under
News.
JobTitled has just joined the Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC), a startup accelerator program launched by Georgia Tech. Hopefully this decision will help us get more involved in Atlanta’s startup community as well as provide increased exposure for our technology. Here’s the short “about” for ATDC:
The Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC) is a start-up accelerator that helps Georgia technology entrepreneurs launch and build successful companies. Founded in 1980, ATDC has helped create millions of dollars in tax revenues by graduating more than 120 companies, which together have raised more than a billion dollars in outside financing. ATDC has provided business incubation and acceleration services to hundreds of Georgia startups—most of which are not based on Georgia Tech research, but which benefit from the close proximity to the university.
Posted
on October 4, 2009, 7:54 pm,
by Brendan,
under
New Features.
If you have used JobTitled but you haven’t tried the Career Trajectory feature yet, maybe now you should. Career Trajectory works by analyzing your work and education history in order to make predictions about where you will land next. It is built upon the same statistics model as the rest of JobTitled and is useful as a starting point when thinking about your career path.
In order to try Career Trajectory you start by creating a free JobTitled account and then simply input your work history. Visit the Career Trajectory page to see an example of the feature in action.
Posted
on September 27, 2009, 8:03 pm,
by Brendan,
under
Community,
News.
We have created a Facebook page for JobTitled and now we have just been approved for a custom username which means a custom URL (http://facebook.com/jobtitled) Become a fan now!
Facebook is one more way to keep in contact with us. Here are other ways:
We welcome new ideas and feedback as we continuously strive to improve the site. We also welcome questions from those needing help when using our data to help make their own career decisions.
Posted
on August 24, 2009, 8:51 pm,
by Brendan,
under
Data,
News.
What are we working on now? Data. We in the midst of a making some nice upgrades in terms of the accuracy and breadth of our data. More data and algorithm improvements. Can’t get into too many details just yet but I will say that crunching is occuring as I type. Stay tuned. I am very serious when I say that JobTitled’s work will never be done. Mapping people’s paths through the working world is challenging and also a never-ending process. The good news for you is that you get to take advantage of the fruits of this labor for free.
In the meantime, please share ideas for how we can improve on our forum and also find out other ways that you can help. We are trying to do something great but we also need your help to make it happen.
Posted
on August 24, 2009, 8:36 pm,
by Brendan,
under
Development.
We need to pay homage to the open source web framework that we used to build the front end to jobtitled.com. If you haven’t decided what Java framework to use for your web app, at least give Wicket a chance. Version 1.4 has just been released:
The Apache Wicket project is proud to announce the release of Apache Wicket 1.4. Apache Wicket is an open source, component oriented Java web application framework. With overwhelming support from the user community, this release marks a departure from the past where we leave Java 1.4 behind and we require Java 5 as the minimum JDK version. By moving to Java 5 as the required minimum platform, we were able to utilize Java 5 idioms and increase the type safety of our APIs. Using Java generics you can now write typesafe web applications and create typesafe, self documenting, reusable custom components.
Find out more about Wicket here.
Posted
on August 15, 2009, 9:47 am,
by Brendan,
under
Development.
Okay, something isn’t right here. Either bit.ly is lying or Google Analytics is lying. Or I’m missing something. If you aren’t familiar with bit.ly it’s one of the many URL shorteners out there. It’s very commonly used on Twitter where there is a 140 character posting limit. It also provides stats for who clicked on the link - which is pretty cool. Only problem is just I noticed today that bit.ly says almost 10X as much traffic as Google Analytics reports. What? Anybody have any ideas? My only guess at this point is a lot of people have Javascript disabled in which case Google Analytics would do nothing. I’d love to know if others see the same thing.
In addition to correlating transitions between jobs we have also mapped how people have used education to further their careers. You can start by click on the Degree tab, select your education level and type in your degree. For example, a search for Bachelor’s in Computer Science returns the following results:
Jobs from Bachelor's in Computer Science
1 - 20 of 1353
Software Engineer 8.37% 7 years
Senior Software Engineer 4.4% 10 years 2 months
Consultant 2.94% 10 years 4 months
Software Developer 1.99% 6 years 9 months
Programmer 1.89% 5 years 9 months
Project Manager 1.52% 11 years 10 months
Senior Consultant 1.38% 10 years 9 months
...
Let me explain the two columns of numbers:
- Percent Likelihood - This is the percentage of people with that degree who have worked as that job title. So in the example, it means 1.52% of Comp Sci grads are currently or have been a Project Manager.
- Time - This is the average time from when a student started their degree to when they started in that position. Thus if you see 4 years, and it’s a 4-year degree then that would likely be their first job out of college. If you see 0-1 year then this is typically a job they had while still in school
