What do UK employers want from OR/MS?

C Mar Molinero () and A Xie
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C Mar Molinero: University of Kent
A Xie: University of Kent

Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2007, vol. 58, issue 12, 1543-1553

Abstract: Abstract Over 500 job advertisements in the Newsletter of the Operational Research Society are analysed to explore the skills that employers want from students and the tasks that such students are expected to perform in their jobs. There are consequences for the content of Operational Research and Management Science degrees.

Keywords: statistics; OR education; practice of OR (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.jors.2602286

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