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EU Digital Policies
EU Data Legislation Takes Effect – Expected Impact on Sweden's Labour Market
A series of new EU data laws have taken effect and will be further harmonized with Swedish legislation. Sweden’s former EU Minister, Jessika Roswall, has been nominated as the next EU Commissioner for 2024–2029, which highlights the government's strong commitment to elevating EU policy within Sweden’s international agenda during the twin transition. We have taken a closer look at the latest digitalisation developments and their impact on the labour market and career transitions.
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Insights across the Digital Field
Swedish, Nordic and EU Labour Market Digitalisation Policies: Current Trends and Future Insights
In the first half of 2024, a lot has happened in digitalisation and the labour market, both nationally and at EU level. AI is impacting all sectors, especially areas within career transitions, labour market and education. Internationally, Sweden is enhancing Nordic cooperation and identifying key technologies to boost its competitiveness. This article summarises the latest insights in the field.
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Inspired by Others
Unionen Matches Students with Potential Jobs Using JobTech's APIs
With 700,000 members, Unionen is Sweden's largest private trade union and the world's largest white-collar union. We had the pleasure to talk to Jenny Kölemo, Project Manager for Unionen Student, to learn about their efforts in helping students' transition from studying to employment. A key part of these efforts is their new service, "Yrkesradarn", which uses JobTech Development's APIs to match students with potential careers and job ads.
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EU Data Spaces Skills
EU Data Spaces Skills: Bridging Skills and Education
The European skills data space aims at providing a secure, trusted, and human-centric infrastructure for sharing, accessing, and reusing skills and education data. This advancement supports a data-driven labour market, enhancing career changes and skill development. This article examines the European Data Spaces Skills and its relevance to Arbetsförmedlingen's role in the digital ecosystem at both national and EU levels.
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EU Data Spaces
EU Data Spaces: Building a Single European Market for Data
Common European data spaces pave the way towards a seamless Europe by creating a single market for data. Arbetsförmedlingen, through Jobtech Development, closely follows developments in data policies and legislation impacting the Swedish labour market. This article focuses on the regulatory framework and the opportunities these data spaces offer.
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Ethics and Sustainability
Our Commitment to Data Ethics and Sustainable Technology Development
As the platform leader for jobtechdev.se, which focuses on open data and digital services for the labour market, Arbetsförmedlingen has a significant responsibility to create safe and useful tools. In a new article, we describe our work and outline our efforts in data ethics and sustainable technology development.
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EU and Swedish Taxonomy
Mapping ESCO Skills and Occupations: Testimonial from Sweden
The European Commission has released a major update to the European Classification of Skills, Competences, Qualifications, and Occupations (ESCO). Petter Nygård, occupational analyst at the Swedish Public Employment Service, presented Sweden’s work on mapping national classifications to ESCO, providing concrete examples of enriched databases, among others.
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Implicit Bias in Job Ads
Historical Job Ads and Implicit Bias: How Linguistic Formulations Impacts Recruitment
The Swedish Public Employment Agency's (Arbetsförmedlingen) vast dataset of historical job advertisements provides unique insights into labour market trends and needs. However, how does the language used in these ads influence the job applicant?
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New Dataset
Yrkesbarometer: Dataset for Producing Occupational Forecasts
The Swedish Public Employment Service has made up its method for producing occupational forecasts. This new approach provides data concerning current assessments of job opportunities and the recruitment landscape across different occupations, both at the county and national levels.
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Open data
Method and Process Support for Open Data Sharing
In this article, we share insights on the value of open data, as well as method and process support describing how Arbetsförmedlingen works with open data. It can serve as a checklist for what organisations to consider when sharing data and can contribute to the development of the digital ecosystem.
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Cooperation regarding data sharing
The DCAT-AP-Processor Tool Promotes Government Data Sharing
The tool has been developed with the aim of simplifying the process for organisations to describe their open and shared data.
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Collaboration
Collaboration with Sundsvall Municipality on Open Data
The Swedish Public Employment Service (Arbetsförmedlingen), the Jobtech unit and Sundsvall Municipality, are starting a collaboration focused on open data and the development of a coherent digital infrastructure for adult education, provided by municipalities. The municipality is already using data from the Swedish Public Employment Service and is aiming at enhancing its utilization further.
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Data infrastructure
Skills Supply and Lifelong Learning: The Government Assignment Has Been Completed
In a recently completed government assignment, the Swedish Public Employment Service – through its unit Jobtech, and in collaboration with other government authorities – has worked to develop a coherent data infrastructure for skills supply and lifelong learning.
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Motivation-Driven Matching
Could Motivation-Driven Matching Foster a More Sustainable Job Matching Process?
My Svensson, an expert in ethics and sustainability at Jobtech, presents her report on how motivation can drive and fuel success in the job matching, or also known as motivation-driven matching.
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Digital Vocational Career Guidance
The Digital Vocational Career Guidance Project: Key Takeaways and Technical Insights
The completed project fostering skills development through digital vocational career guidance has been part of a joint government assignment to develop a coherent data infrastructure for skills supply and lifelong learning. The user experience work, including a clickable prototype, a public design mural, insights from interviews and user tests, and recommendations for further development, are now available as valuable resources for upcoming projects.
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Collaboration
Collaboration for Development: Universities in Focus
The platform JobTechDev has long served as a source of inspiration and a collaborative partner for universities across Sweden. Currently, we are strengthening our partnership with various universities with the goal of fostering the use of open data and open-source code to improve job market matching services. In this article, we delve into the projects, undertaken by master’s students from Uppsala University and researchers from SDCI Gothenburg.
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Collaboration
Collaboration for Development: Vocational Colleges in Focus
In this article, we take a closer look at the enhanced partnership between JobTech Development and Sweden's higher vocational colleges. Students from the Media Institute have developed seven applications based on open data from the JobTechDev platform and incorporating source code from the design system of the Swedish Public Employment Service. In addition, UX students from Changemaker Educations have contributed with suggestions to new concepts.
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Collaboration
Collaboration for Development: JobTechDev Strengthens Partnerships with the Education Sector
For an extended period, JobTech Development has been working closely with students and the education sector throughout the country. Currently, we are enhancing our partnerships with universities and vocational colleges to advance the development of technical components and solutions based on JobTechDev's open data and datasets. The purpose is to continue creating practical and accessible technical solutions for the Swedish job market.
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AI
Could AI Algorithms Enhance the Efficiency of SSYK Utilization and Result in Cost Savings for the Society?
The report aimed to assist the Jobtech Unit in assessing the need for SSYK automating in job ads on the Swedish National Job Board. The findings showcased that AI, with an accuracy of approximately 97%, outperforms manual classification at around 78%. This could lead to substantial improvements in labour market data and potential cost savings. However, the report emphasizes the need for a careful evaluation of potential drawbacks and costs, like algorithm management, to weigh the pros and cons effectively.
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Concept Prototype
Skills Supply Project in Focus: Development of a Concept for a New Tool Underway
In September 2023, an event was held with participants from various industry organisations, educational providers, career transition organisations, and government agencies. A project has been granted to continue collaborating, mapping, and working on job descriptions of employers' needs and requirements given guidance, recruitment, validation, and matching across the entire labour market.
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EU
EU Trio’s Focus: Innovation, Digital Inclusion, Fair Labour Mobility and Inclusion
The new EU Presidency Trio - Spain, Belgium, and Hungary – remains dedicated to driving the green and digital transition forward. A primary focus lies in promoting research and innovation, ensuring digital inclusion, fostering fair labour mobility and inclusion across the EU. Jobtech Development has taken a glance at the new programs and outlined the areas that require future attention and work in the field of digitalisation, labour market and career transition.
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EU
Sweden's EU Presidency: Results in the Area of Digitalisation
Although digital policies have been ranked low on the Swedish EU Presidency program, the country has since made significant progress in negotiations concerning digital matters. Especially in the areas of data governance and data sharing. Jobtech Development has taken a glance at the Swedish results, particularly in the field of digitalisation, labour market and lifelong learning.
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Labour Market Training
JobEd Connect Enriched with Labour Market Training Programs
The labour market training programs provided by the Swedish Public Employment Service (SPES) are now searchable and accessible for matching in the JobEd Connect API.
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International Conference
JobTechDev Brings a Swedish Perspective on Open Source at the OSPO for Good 2023 Symposium
JobTech Development brings a Swedish perspective on the use of open data and open-source technology, from decentralized to cohesive governance within the data domains of labour market and education.
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Job Match
Good Job Match in the Labour Market - A New Report
This report focuses on providing a balanced picture by presenting a comprehensive compilation of diverse perspectives on the concept of a good job match in the labour market. It further describes the indicators and assessment criteria commonly used within each perspective when evaluating or applying its theories into practice.
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International Conference
JobTechDev Joins API Days Helsinki & North 2023
JobTech Development will participate in API Days Helsinki & North on June 5th-6th, 2023. The event joins the tradition of hugely popular global apidays events.
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Get Inspired by Others
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.
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Lifelong Learning
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.
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International Conference
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.
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Get Inspired by Others
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.
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Get Inspired by Others
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.
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International Conference
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.
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Open Data Charter
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.
Data Spaces
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.
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Digital Vocational Career Guidance
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.
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API
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.
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Get Inspired by Others
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?
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EU
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.
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EU
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.
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Get Inspired by Others
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.
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Data Spaces
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.
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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.
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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.
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Digital Infrastructure
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.
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Digital Infrastructure
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.
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Dataset
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.
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API
Important Information about the API JobSearch
The endpoint Taxonomy/Search will be removed by the end of September 2022.
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Information
Cybersecurity
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.
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Collaboration
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.
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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.
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EU
EU Trio’s Focus: Green and Digital Transitions
Jobtech has ongoing pilot projects referring to data portability, concept recognition (semantics) and digital guidance.
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Collaboration
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.
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International Conference
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.
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API
We No Longer Use API Keys
From now on, keys are no longer required to access APIs on the JobTech Development's platform.
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Project
Three New Pilot Projects
JobTech Development is working on three major pilot projects in relation to skills supply and lifelong learning.
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Research
Open Data Ecosystems
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.
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API Award
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.
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Innovation
Innovation is Created when Authorities and Private Actors Work Together
Interview with Gregory Golding, Head of JobTech Unit
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Conference
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.
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Get Inspired by Others
Framtid.se Expanded Its Range of Services
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.
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Layke Analytics Automates the Matching Process
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.
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Collaboration
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.
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Open Data Ecosystem
"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.
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Collaboration
We See a Great Need for Open Data Collaboration
Interview with Jonas Södergren, Technical Product and Procurement Manager, and Programmer at JobTech Development
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API
New AI Solution Improves Job Ads and Streamlines Digital Matching Services
New AI Solution Improves Job Ads and Streamlines Digital Matching Services
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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.
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