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You can read about current news, articles, insights, upcoming events and webinars, which JobTech Development is arranging, participating in, or in general are interesting for the digital ecosystem.

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23 May 2023

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JobTechDev Joins API Days Helsinki & North 2023

Apidays Helsinki & North joins the tradition of hugely popular global apidays events. The conference is brought together with the local APIOps community. Our Product Lead, Linked Data, Carl Lernberg will be presenting JobTech Development's latest API JobEd Connect.
2023-06-05 08:00 - 2023-06-06 17:00

22 May 2023

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Interview

Allalöner.se is Committed to Simplify Pay Matters by Promoting Transparency

JobTech Development's APIs and open data have assisted allalöner.se to establish a robust framework for occupational titles that accurately reflects the labour market. "The platform's users are increasingly expressing a desire for enhanced pay transparency, and as a result we are working towards fulfilling this important need.", says Lennart Johansson, founder of allalöner.se and antagningspoäng.se.

15 May 2023

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Supporting Lifelong Learning through New Technology

On May 9th 2023, Maria Mindhammar, the Director-General of the Swedish Public Employment Service (SPES), participated in a panel discussion focused on the theme of Jobtech vs. Edtech. The event was organised by the interest association, Swedish JobTech, in collaboration with the trade association for Swedish Edtech. We seized the opportunity to pose a few questions to the Director-General.

09 May 2023

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JobTechDev at 2023 Government Transformation Summit in London

The collaboration between the public and private sectors on data is crucial for the ecosystem and infrastructure to promote lifelong learning and facilitate the development of services for validation, matching, and career guidance.

09 May 2023

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Digitalisation & Transformation in the Public Sector 2023

This year's conference will focus on digital strategies, organizational development, and change management. Jonas Södergren and Maria Dalhage from JobTechDev will be sharing insights about customer-focused digitalisation of the Swedish Public Employment Service for a better customer experience and increased efficiency”.
08:30-16:55 2023-09-20

02 May 2023

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Interview

Jobnet Wants to Become a Natural Destination for Job Seekers

We have read on their website: "At Jobnet, you search on your terms, anonymously and smoothly." We became curious and kindly asked for an interview with Kalle Bodestig, CEO and Founder of the Jobnet platform.

20 April 2023

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Pharus Tech Solves the Matching Problems in the Labour Market

Pharus Tech is a platform that helps both companies and individuals to navigate on the labour market. We have talked to Björn Elowson about the company's working methods, name change and future plans.

18 April 2023

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JobTech Development on Stage at the Foss-north 2023

This year’s conference will be covering social and legal aspects of free software as well as best practices from Scandinavia.

12 April 2023

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JobTech Development at Foss-north 2023

This year’s event will be covering political, legal and social challenges related to software freedom as well presenting best practices from Scandinavia.
2023-04-24 09:00 - 2023-04-25 16:00

04 April 2023

Sweden Joins the International Open Data Charter (ODC)

JobTech Development has worked and promoted open data and open-source code in public administration since its inauguration.

30 March 2023

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Human-Centric Solutions at Glance at the Data Space Symposium

JobTech Development participated in the Data Space Symposium, which took place in the Hague, the Netherlands, between March 21st -23rd, 2023.

30 March 2023

News

Digital Vocational Career Guidance: New Project Fostering Skills Development

JobTech Development is leading an exciting new project within the JobEdTech area, which is based on using enriched CV information to assess which education programs can fill the gap between the individual's experiences and the labour market's needs.

28 March 2023

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Inrupt Solid Hackathon, April 10th-28th

The hackathon presents developers with the opportunity to try out Inrupt's new enterprise-grade client libraries for Java application development. First- and second-place winners are eligible for monetary prizes and an opportunity to present their projects on an upcoming Solid World.
2023-04-10 09:00 - 2023-04-28 17:00

28 March 2023

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JobTechDev at Open Source Driving Digital Decade, April 18th

The event brings together European actors in Stockholm to continue the discussion of the role of open technologies in shaping our shared digital future.
10:00-17:30 2023-04-18

28 March 2023

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Skills Meetup Sweden, April 19th-21st

Welcome to a meeting place for exchanging experiences, networking, and shared learning, addressing challenges for successful skills supply.
2023-04-19 11:00 - 2023-04-21 16:00

14 March 2023

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New API: JobEd Connect

Today, we launch JobEd Connect, an open API that facilitates the navigation between education and occupations to match relevant education to relevant careers and employment.

03 February 2023

Event

Tech Awards Sweden 2023

Innovators and influential forces gather to transform traditional industries and create new paths. To recognize these efforts, Foundry and TechSverige hold the annual Tech Awards ceremony, where individuals, companies, organizations, and initiatives are honored with awards and celebration.
13:00-22:00 2023-03-22

17 January 2023

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Interview

An AI Solution for Intelligent Screening of CVs

Layke Analytics offers an AI solution for recruiting automation (selection-and matching) during the hiring process. When we interviewed Layke Analytics’ CEO, Anna Rapp, a couple of years ago, the startup company has been at the beginning of its journey, starting using several of the JobTech Development's APIs. What has happened since then?

16 January 2023

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The Web Days Conference, April 18-19

2023 Web Days Conference is an live event on how to make a winning digital platform strategy.
2023-04-18 09:00 - 2023-04-19 16:00

13 January 2023

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Sweden Innovation Days March, 21st-23rd

Sweden Innovation Days is a free of charge digital conference, which will focus on how to enable innovation that has a real impact on our society, environment and economy.
2023-03-21 14:00 - 2023-03-23 17:00

13 January 2023

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Insight

Almost Thirty Years of Swedish EU Membership: A Lot Has Happened

There has been acknowledged a clear positive impact on trade and security, labour market, and regional development while rising immigration leaves room for improvement in politics.

11 January 2023

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The Swedish Presidency of the Council of EU: Important Data Strategies at Glance

A few, but essential strategies related to data governance and data sharing, interoperability, and cyber security are on the priority list during the Swedish EU Presidency. JobTech Development will follow up on the work in the field.

15 December 2022

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Employchain Makes Labour Market Digital

The goal is a data-driven labour market for Sweden. It is how Jan-Philipp Arps, co-founder of Employchain, envisions it.

06 December 2022

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JobTechDev Rocked the Stage at SEMIC2022

The EU Commission has extended an invitation to JobTech Development to participate in a panel discussion “Personal data space implementations – interoperability challenges” at SEMIC 2022 in Brussels. The conference is organised by the Interoperability Unit of DIGIT of the European Commission, in collaboration with the Czech Presidency of the Council of the EU.

28 November 2022

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Interview

A Demonstration Environment for Skills Development

Kompetensmatchning.se serves as a marketplace for skills development where employers and education providers can collaborate and get insights on how to meet employees’ needs in terms of skills supply and skills development. The testbed is developed by the state-owned RISE and it is now available on the platform jobtechdev.se.

15 November 2022

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Interview

TRR’s Clients Benefit from JobTech's APIs

Sweden's largest job security council TRR is using JobTech Development's APIs to improve the accuracy of the matching rates between clinents and hiring managers. We talked to Catherine Ewerman, an IT and Digitalisation Product Owner at TRR, about the benefits of this mutual collaboration and her insights on how it can be further improved.

10 November 2022

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Digital Infrastructure: What Experts Say

JobTech Development has interviewed three experts, based on their area of competence – technology, policy, and democracy – what is a digital infrastructure and examples of its application, and how it can contribute to benefit the labour and the education market.

08 November 2022

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What is a Digital Infrastructure?

A digital infrastructure, or a data infrastructure, brings together and interconnects physical and virtual technologies. It is invisible but highly crucial to implementing and fostering data-driven digital transformation that has its impact and benefit on society.

13 September 2022

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New Dataset: JobSearch Trends

JobSearch Trends is a new dataset, which shows search behavior on the Swedish Public Employment Service’s Job Board Platsbanken over time.

09 September 2022

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Important Information about the API JobSearch

The endpoint Taxonomy/Search will be removed by the end of September 2022.

30 August 2022

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Insight

Cybersecurity in a Connected Society: Many Questions, Still Few Answers

Security and openness are central to the development of JobTech Development's products, underlying technology, and digital infrastructure.

21 June 2022

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Open Space Vol.3 Summary

The Stockholm meeting is part of a series of workshops about digitalization, skills supply and lifelong learning, arranged by Jobtech and Sunet.

20 June 2022

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Summary of JobTech Development's participation at "Public Sector Innovations" 2022

JobTech Development showcased a tool to get an overview of what have been the most wanted skills in a particular municipality during the last year / years by using historical data and dataset.

05 April 2022

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Insight

EU Trio’s Focus: Green and Digital Transitions

Jobtech has ongoing pilot projects referring to data portability, concept recognition (semantics) and digital guidance.

29 March 2022

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Open Space Vol.2 Summary

The Stockholm meeting is part of a series of workshops about digitization, skills supply and lifelong learning, arranged by Jobtech and Sunet.

09 March 2022

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Jobtech at API Days Helsinki & North 2022

Our colleague Jonas Södergren will be talking about one Public Sector’s “Open” Story: Sweden API Award Winner JobStream on March 16th at 10.05 CET.

04 March 2022

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We No Longer Use API Keys

From now on, keys are no longer required to access APIs on the JobTech Development's platform.

28 February 2022

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Research

Three New Pilot Projects

JobTech Development is working on three major pilot projects in relation to skills supply and lifelong learning.

18 February 2022

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Research

New Research Report about Open Data Ecosystems

During the last 2 years, JobTech Development's work has been evaluated on an ongoing basis by the researcher Johan Linåker from Lund University.

22 November 2021

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The API JobStream Won Sweden API Award

A dedicated team at JobTech Development has caught up and mapped the users' needs by developing this API.

22 November 2021

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Interview

Innovation is Created when Authorities and Private Actors Work Together

Interview with Gregory Golding, Head of JobTech Unit

29 October 2021

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Summary of eGoverment Days (eFörvaltningsdagarna)

JobTech Development participated in the eGovernment Days October 27-28, where we exchanged experiences about open data and open source code.

28 June 2021

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Interview

Get Inspired by Framtid.se

By using technology and open data from JobTech Development, the career platform Framtid.se has not only increased the benefits for its users, but even fostered its business growth.

24 June 2021

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Interview

Get Inspired by JobAgent

The Swedish HR tech company JobAgent matches job seekers and employers by highlighting the candidate's personal qualities instead of previous experiences. With the help of JobTech Development's APIs, the company has developed and improved its platform and received ideas for new and innovative solutions.

22 June 2021

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Get Inspired by Layke Analytics

The collaboration with JobTech Development has been of great importance to the startup company Layke Analytics, which offers a digital tool for intelligent screening of CVs.

16 February 2021

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Interview

No one Can Solve the Problem on Their Own; We Can Do It Together Instead

Through a collaboration between Sweden's largest advertising and matching actors, initiated by JobTech Development, it will be possible to show a comprehensive picture of all job advertisements on the market - and job seekers do not have to worry about having missed job opportunities. The technical solution is now being tested as a pilot project in Platsbanken.

20 January 2021

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Interview
Research

"JobTech Development: A Cutting-edge Project that Fosters Powerful Learning"

Interview with Johan Linåker, a researcher at Lund University, who has reached halfway in his work to research how JobTech Development can build a digital ecosystem for the Swedish labour market through collaboration and open data.

01 October 2020

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Interview

We See a Great Need for Open Data Collaboration

Interview with Jonas Södergren, Technical Product and Procurement Manager, and Programmer at JobTech Development

14 September 2020

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New AI Solution Improves Job Ads and Streamlines Digital Matching Services

New AI Solution Improves Job Ads and Streamlines Digital Matching Services

13 September 2020

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Interview

We Make it Easier for Job Seekers to Quickly Find the Right Job among Job Advertisements

Five questions to Mattias Persson, project manager and developer of the AI ​​solution JobAd Enrichments.