Paraguay’s Ministry of Labor will use JANZZ’s web platform for improved placement of job seekers

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The Ministry of Labor of the Republic of Paraguay has selected the JANZZ.technology platform ParaEmpleo.mtess.gov.py financed by the Inter-American Development Bank to improve labor intermediation in Paraguay, using state of the art matching technology based on the best occupational ontology available in the world.

JANZZ.technology was selected to improve the labor market in Paraguay.

The Ministry of Labor, Employment and Social Security (MTESS) of the Republic of Paraguay and JANZZ.technology, headquartered in Switzerland, signed the collaboration agreement concerning the Paraguayan labor market. Thanks to this arrangement, the Swiss company started its first project in Latin America. As a result, JANZZ.technology will install its platform called ParaEmpleo.mtess.gov.py to improve the placement of young jobseekers. Economy Master Guillermo Sosa, Minister of Labor, and Diego Rico, vice-president of customer integration and Deputy CEO of JANZZ.technology, met to finalize details of the project and review the various advantages of this innovative technology, which in addition to Paraguay serves more than 150,000 applicants and employers in 40 different languages in five countries.  The platform breaks the scheme of intermediation by keywords, incorporating taxonomies, an ontology approach and semantics, coupled with the best technologies. This allows that job seekers and employers can be matched in multiple dimensions including soft skills, training, experience, availability and geo-location.  The platform has more than 100,000 man-hours of development and brings its new version to Paraguay.

Through this new ParaEmpleo.mtess.gov.py web platform, MTESS wants to offer the most advanced technology for job matching. To date more than 25,000 applicants have registered in the PARAGUAY database. Once the service is completed, these young people will be able to access jobs according to their competences and abilities. This agreement is made within the framework of the “Program to Support Labor Insertion” (PR-L1066), financed by the Inter-American Development Bank, under a loan agreement with the Republic of Paraguay.

JANZZ.technology is the best partner for MTESS as it has years of work experience that have allowed it to accumulate extensive experience in the field of occupational data with effective solutions in Spanish and for its comprehensive and multilingual offer of standard classifications. The company is very excited about the opportunity to participate in strengthening the labor market in Paraguay and hopes to collaborate with MTESS.

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

The Inter-American Development Bank is one of the main sources of long-term financing for economic, social and institutional projects in Latin America and the Caribbean. In addition to loans, grants and credit guarantees, the IDB carries out cutting-edge research projects to provide innovative and sustainable solutions to the most urgent problems in these regions. Created in 1959 to help accelerate progress in its developing member countries, the IDB works every day to improve lives.

The Ministry of Labor, Employment and Social Security (MTESS)

The functions of the Ministry of Labor, Employment and Social Security of Paraguay are to determine labor, employment and social security policies, as well as to improve working conditions and respect for workers’ fundamental rights within a democratic framework, and to monitor social dialogue. Master Guillermo Sosa has held the post of Minister of Labor, Employment and Social Security since April 2014, previously serving as head of the Ministry’s Office.

JANZZ.technology

JANZZ.technology is a technology and consulting company dedicated to the semantic matching of skills and employment, and the use of complex data on skills and employment. It offers white-label products and SaaS/DaaS solutions for modelling, analyzing and using big data in job portals, public organizations such as public employment services and company job boards. JANZZ.technology’s products enable precise multilingual matching of qualifications, skills and competences thanks to the latest semantic technologies. In this way, matching problems in the labor markets are significantly reduced and big data is transformed into smart data.

NAV selects JANZZ’s ontology-based solution for modernizing its labour market platform.

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The Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV) has selected the Swiss technology company JANZZ in a public tender process to deliver components for its new labour market platform. JANZZ has won the bidding process against international competition and will support NAV with its expertise in occupation and skills related data.

NAV is adapting its self-service platform as part of its agenda to improve the transition of jobseekers into employment. NAV aims to offer a transparent service for all labour market operators and participants in which all users can utilize the services on the same terms. It is developing a flexible tool that makes the Norwegian labour market more transparent and facilitates faster transition to employment for all jobseekers.

The new platform will be a source of knowledge about Norway’s labour market. The collection, enhancement and analysis of data and information about jobs and skills will be a central part of the future platform. By incorporating data and analytics into its core strategic vision, NAV aims to create a sustainable and dynamic knowledge cycle that will benefit the well-functioning of the labour market.

With its ontology-based job matching technology, JANZZ offers the ideal tool for NAV to build an innovative and sustainable new platform. JANZZ’s ontology of occupation and skills related data is a comprehensive semantic database of job titles, competences and educations. It understands the nuances of CVs and vacancies and can help translate between them. Together with its powerful semantic job matching engine, it will help NAV deliver more relevant and transparent job search results and recommendations and gain more accurate insights into the labour market.

About NAV

The Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV) has approximately 19 000 employees (about 14 000 state employees and 5000 municipal employees).
NAV was established on 1 July 2006. The local authorities and central government cooperate to find good solutions for social and welfare and employment services for users through 456 NAV offices in municipalities in all of Norways’ 19 counties.

NAV is responsible for a third of the state budget of Norway, administering various benefit and employment schemes (i.e. unemployment benefit, work assessment allowance, sickness benefit, child benefit, cash-for-care benefit and pensions).

Main objectives relative to the labour market:

  • More people active and in work, fewer people on benefits
  • A well-functioning labour market with a high level of labour force participation
  • An inclusive society that ensures everyone the opportunity to participate
  • Comprehensive and efficient labour and welfare administration

Secondary objectives (working objectives) in relation to the labour market:

  • Inclusive workplaces
  • Businesses and agencies can fill job openings with qualified employees
  • Give individuals with an impairment or reduced functionality the opportunity to participate actively in working life
  • Services and information tailored to the users’ needs and circumstances

More information about NAV is available at www.nav.no

About JANZZ.technology

JANZZ.technology is a technology and consulting company active in the field of semantic skills and job matching, and in the use of complex occupation and skills data. It offers standard and white-label products and SaaS/DaaS solutions for the modelling, analysis and use of big data on job portals, by public employment services, and on companies’ own job sites. Using the latest semantic technologies to precisely match qualifications and hard and soft skills across different languages, it considerably alleviates the matching problems associated with asymmetric search mechanisms in job markets.

More information about JANZZ.technology is available at www.janzz.technology

JANZZ Highlights: How we started off 2016 successfully

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2015 was an exciting and busy year for us, with projects in Europe, South East Asia and the Middle East. The complexity due to the many different languages, cultures and labor markets demanded a lot from our database maintenance team. Therefore, we are all the more proud, to have successfully mastered these projects and to have gained so much knowhow on occupation data. Our team and our central asset, our ontology JANZZon!, have learnt so much.

Occupational classifications

  • We have integrated a major part of the Indian occupational classification NCO-2004. That includes not only occupations in English but also in Hindi.
  • The entry of JSOC 2011 (Japan) and NOC 2011 (Canada) is soon completed
  • We are collecting over 14’000 jobs in Dutch, from the national Dutch classification BO&C. We are also enhancing this data with information from real life job postings.

LinkedIn Skills

As the search for the perfect matching talent or job on LinkedIn becomes more and more important, the significance of the skills you display on your LinkedIn profile increases. The network even advertises that members who register their skills will get four times more profile views. The skills users include on their profile also offer an opportunity to personalize job suggestions, adverts and search results more accurately. On the other hand, companies can search for job candidates according to their job title or skills.

Our ontology already included about 70% of all global LinkedIn skills. In order to achieve our goal “to master occupation data”, we have started to teach our ontology also the remaining 30% of these skills. For we are serious about really knowing all the skills in the world (The same is obviously also true for jobs).

Semantic Technology

Why is it so important, to include all these classifications and skills in our ontology? Why does it, for instance, not suffice that LinkedIn knows all the skills its users register? Our ontology not only registers these terms but it also interlinks them logically. In case of the LinkedIn skills, JANZZ provides significant added value through the interlinking of different languages, which makes LinkedIn’s skills comparable on a global basis. Hence, our ontology JANZZon! offers essential context and intelligent evaluation options for applications such as information systems, matching engines, job portals, CV parsers, statistical analysis and modelling tools and much more. The ontology becomes the means to utilize an enormous amount of data intelligently. Big data becomes smart data.

JANZZ.technology Releases a New and Improved Version of its Ontology

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Every day, JANZZ.technology’s dedicated team of IT supporters and engineers work on improving the quality and extent of the ontology JANZZon!. Over the past couple of weeks, the focus was on growing the ontology’s reach by implementing even more languages and national occupation classifications.

Improvements on the ontology:

  • Implementation of O*Net completed
  • The Singaporean classifications SSEC 2015 and SSOC 2015 90% completed
  • Several thousands of skills added to the ontology in Arabic
  • Many occupations added to the Dutch classifications BO&C and SBC.

New additions to the ontology:

  • Chinese trad, and Chinese simplified, Swedish, Finnish and Japanese now available for ISCO-08 and selected national classifications such as the Finnish Ammattiluokitus 2010
  • Integration of the European classification for skills, competences, qualifications and occupations, ESCO

For more information on these developments, please contact us directly via email or via our contact form.

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