Identification of desired project manager competence using text mining analysis

Purpose: An attempt to identify the competencies of the project manager desired by the employers and to determine whether changes have occurred over time. Design/methodology/approach: Job offers were automatically downloaded from website with job offers. An analysis of text mining of fragments of offers describing the competence was carried out. The analysis of text mining included initial text processing, creation of corpora of analyzed documents, creation of a document-term matrix, topic modeling algorithm and the use of classic methods derived from data mining. Findings: The most frequently used words/n-grams and the correlation of selected words/ n-grams with other words/n-grams were presented in the form of drawings. Based on the frequency of words/n-grams and the correlation value, efforts were made to identify the project manager competencies. The topic modeling algorithm was used to generate topics that can also be used to identify expected project manager competencies. Research limitations/implications: Only offers written in Polish, downloaded from one websites with job offers, which had the phrase “kierownik projektu” (“project manager”) in their job title, were analyzed. Data was collected from 09 to 11 April 2018 and from 09 to 11 April 2019. Practical implications: The method applied can be used by organizations preparing for the profession of a project manager, to modify and better adapt curricula to the needs of the labor market. Originality/value: Studies have shown that text mining of job offers can, to some extent, help determine the desired project manager competence.