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Record W3195107606 · doi:10.29007/g6d8

Demand of 21st Century Skills in the Construction Workforce

2021· article· en· W3195107606 on OpenAlexaffabout
Jishnu Subedi

Bibliographic record

VenueEPiC series in built environment · 2021
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldDecision Sciences
TopicConstruction Project Management and Performance
Canadian institutionsSAIT Polytechnic
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSoft skillsIntrapersonal communicationWorkforceFlexibility (engineering)Interpersonal communicationSocial skillsPeople skillsBusinessKnowledge managementSkills managementMarketingPsychologyComputer scienceManagementEconomics

Abstract

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This paper analyzes the job postings in the construction sector to identify the nature and demand of the soft skills that the construction industry is looking for in the employees. The construction industry, like other industries, is witnessing rapid change in the working environment because of factors such as increasing cultural diversity of the workforce, advancement in information technology and introduction of automation and artificial intelligence to perform routine jobs. Because of these changes, individuals need soft skills to succeed in the 21st century workplace. The job postings on the Job Bank Canada website in 2019 that were related to the construction sector were analyzed to identify the soft skills that are in demand in the construction industry. Out of the top 12 skills extracted from the job postings, seven skills are identified as the soft skills. “Team player” is the most sought-after skill in the construction industry, which appears in 56.4% of the job postings. Other soft skills in demand are “effective interpersonal skills,” “excellent oral communication,” “attention to detail,” “reliability,” “flexibility,” and working in a “fast-paced environment.” The analysis shows that the interpersonal and intrapersonal soft skills are in high demand in the construction industry.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.376
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.034
GPT teacher head0.302
Teacher spread0.268 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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