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Exploring the Job Competencies of Data Scientists Using Online Job Posting

온라인 채용정보를 이용한 데이터 과학자 요구 역량 탐색

  • Received : 2022.01.27
  • Accepted : 2022.03.23
  • Published : 2022.05.31
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Abstract

As the global business environment is rapidly changing due to the 4th industrial revolution, new jobs that did not exist before are emerging. Among them, the job that companies are most interested in is 'Data Scientist'. As information and communication technologies take up most of our lives, data on not only online activities but also offline activities are stored in computers every hour to generate big data. Companies put a lot of effort into discovering new opportunities from such big data. The new job that emerged along with the efforts of these companies is data scientist. The demand for data scientist, a promising job that leads the big data era, is constantly increasing, but its supply is not still enough. Although data analysis technologies and tools that anyone can easily use are introduced, companies still have great difficulty in finding proper experts. One of the main reasons that makes the data scientist's shortage problem serious is the lack of understanding of the data scientist's job. Therefore, in this study, we explore the job competencies of a data scientist by qualitatively analyzing the actual job posting information of the company. This study finds that data scientists need not only the technical and system skills required of software engineers and system analysts in the past, but also business-related and interpersonal skills required of business consultants and project managers. The results of this study are expected to provide basic guidelines to people who are interested in the data scientist profession and to companies that want to hire data scientists.

4차 산업혁명으로 글로벌 비즈니스 환경이 빠르게 변화함에 따라 기존에는 없던 새로운 직종들이 등장하고 있다. 새롭게 등장한 직종 중에 최근에 기업들이 가장 많은 관심을 가지고 있는 직종은 '데이터 과학자 (Data Scientist)'일 것이다. 인터넷과 같은 정보통신 기술이 우리들의 생활에서 차지하는 비중이 커지면서 온라인에서의 활동 뿐만 아니라 오프라인 상에서의 활동에 대한 데이터가 매시간 컴퓨터에 저장되어 빅데이터를 생성하고 있다. 기업들은 이런 빅데이터로부터 새로운 기회를 창출하기 위하여 많은 노력을 기울이고 있다. 이런 기업의 노력과 함께 새롭게 등장한 직종이 바로 '데이터 과학자'이다. 빅데이터 시대를 이끌어갈 유망 직업인 데이터 과학자에 대한 수요는 끊임없이 증가되고 있지만 공급은 여전히 부족한 현황이다. 분석과 관련된 기술과 도구들이 새롭게 개발되고 있음에도 불구하고 기업은 여전히 이러한 기술을 목적에 맞게 활용할 수 있는 전문가를 찾는데 있어서 많은 어려움을 겪고 있다. 데이터 과학자 부족 문제를 심각하게 만드는 주요 이유 중 하나는 데이터 과학자 직무에 대한 이해가 부족하다는 점에서 찾을 수 있을 것이다. 이에 본 연구에서는 기업에서 필요로 하는 데이터 과학자의 역량을 기업의 실제 채용정보를 정성적으로 분석하여 보았다. 연구 결과, 과거 소프트웨어 엔지니어나 시스템 분석가들에게 요구되었던 Technical Skill과 System Skill 뿐만 아니라 비즈니스 컨설턴트나 Project Manager에게 요구되었던 비즈니스 관련 스킬이나 효율적인 팀워크를 위한 대인관련 스킬도 광범위하게 요구됨을 발견하였다. 본 연구결과를 통하여 데이터 과학자란 직업에 관심을 가지고 있는 사람들과 데이터 과학자를 채용하기를 원하는 기업에게 가이드라인을 제공하여 줄 것으로 기대하고 있다.

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