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Our knowledge base contains information, interesting facts and selected articles on the latest trends and current developments on global labor markets and in the world of semantic technologies relating to human resources and recruitment, occupation (big) data and ontologies / knowledge graphs, job classifications, CV parsing, skills and job matching and much more.

Where is the next generation of craftspeople in Switzerland? (And elsewhere?)

According to the latest Nahtstellenbarometers – Education Decisions after Compulsory Schooling, published by Innovation SBFI and State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI), the most desired professions for vocational training in Switzerland are commercial employees, followed by healthcare assistants and information technologists. This means that none of the professions in handicraft are among the top 5. Compared to boys, there are 15% less girls aspiring to follow the vocational training, and not one single girl reports to be interested in choosing an apprenticeship as electrician,  » Read more about: Where is the next generation of craftspeople in Switzerland? (And elsewhere?)  »

Middle-skilled workers to be hit hardest by digitization

While low-skilled workers are going to suffer the most from the consequences of digital transformation long-term (with some exceptions), opportunities for middle-skilled jobs are shrinking the most, according to recent observations in OECD countries.
We used to talk about digitalization and automatization only as processes that will change our working environment in the future, for example through the replacement of humans by robots. Meanwhile, the situation has changed: many of us already feel the effects of digitization and automation.  » Read more about: Middle-skilled workers to be hit hardest by digitization  »

Occupational classification systems in the digital age

People have long been monitoring the economic activities of our society. It is said that during the Chinese Tang Dynasty (618-907) there were 36 different job types. Fittingly, the period marks the origin of the famous Chinese saying that ‘every trade has its master’ (san shi liu hang, hang hang chu zhuang yuan).

Today, jobs are changing at such a speed that it is almost impossible to give an exact number of the occupations that affect our daily life.  » Read more about: Occupational classification systems in the digital age  »

Ambitious working women may find it hard in Switzerland

Despite being ranked among the world’s most livable places in terms of living standard, education, and healthcare, Switzerland’s cities might still not be the most ideal residence for aspirational working women, especially not for ambitious working moms. According to the 2018 Gender Gap Report, Switzerland ranked 20th. It specifically showed a significant gap between women and men in the areas of economy and political participation.
In Switzerland, women make up only 33.9 percent of senior positions,  » Read more about: Ambitious working women may find it hard in Switzerland  »

What you should know when choosing your AI recruitment software

In a report, Deloitte presents the evolvement of HR technology in four stages. The first stage describes the period during the 1970s and 1980s, when the main attention of software vendors was on systems that help HR managers make records. During the second stage between the 1990s and early 2000s, capabilities to support recruiting, training and performance controlling were developed. Around 2010, at the third stage, vendors started to offer cloud services and more user-friendly systems to engage with employees’ self-services.  » Read more about: What you should know when choosing your AI recruitment software  »