The advertisements were scrutinized for requirements and these
were allocated to the skills categories on the chart. Data was gathered
fromthe requirements sought by theemployers and not fromthe duties
or responsibilities of the post, unless this referred to a particular requirement
(Orme, 2008, p. 624). Each requirement was recorded on
the tally chart. Once thiswas done for all the advertisements, the counts
were totalled to produce frequency counts allowing for “an assessment
of the relative importance of the different requirements and the areas
into which they fall” (Orme, 2008, p. 624). A total of 71 advertisements
were analysed. A similar process was applied to the data collected from
the six interviews (a total of about 6 h of interviewing) except here the
researcher had to wade through much qualitative data and had to be
mindful of not capturing repetitions. The frequency counts (together
with percentages) from both the data sets are reflected in Table 2.
Fig. 1, using a bar graph, captures the totals (and corresponding percentages)
for each of the skills categories. Juxtaposing the totals from the
two data sources (job advertisements and interviews) on the graph
allows for comparison of trends between the two data sets, for purposes
of triangulation