Trend Analysis And Demand Patterns In Public Sector Educator Recruitment: An Exploratory Data Analysis

Abstract

Recruitment of educators in the government is a factor that promotes the sufficient staffing in educational facilities. Nevertheless, information related to recruitment is usually spread out in numerous government notifications and recruitment boards where it is hard to make a systematic and analytical analysis of the recruitment patterns. This unstructured data does not allow the clear comprehension of the change in demand in various years, subjects, and posts. The aim of the research is to examine the demand in public sector educator recruitment by gathering information on the official sources accessible to the public and to prepare it in such a way that the information is gathered into one structured dataset. Simple data cleaning methods are implemented and then vacancy analysis per year is performed to determine change in recruitment over the years. Descriptive statistics and visualization are used to analyze subject-wise and post-wise trends to demonstrate the differences between categories. In comparison with the current literature, which mostly examines trends in research based on the bibliometric analysis, this work uses trend analysis to real time recruitment data, providing a clear understanding of historical recruitment patterns.