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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.
Protect the young people: How accidents and illness at work cost lives and money worldwide
/0 Comments/in Knowledge Base, News /by JANZZ.technologyYoung people are much more often affected by accidents at work and health problems resulting from their work than older employees. According to the European Agency for Safety and Health, they are up to 40% more prone to work-related injuries than their older colleagues. Therefore, young employees need to receive much better protection and training from their employer.
The United Nations defines young workers as workers between the ages of 15 and 24, irrespective of the kind of work they do, » Read more about: Protect the young people: How accidents and illness at work cost lives and money worldwide »
Even more ado about nothing … or why the hype about big data and AI is often more about self-marketing than facts and real progress.
/0 Comments/in Knowledge Base, News /by JANZZ.technologyEvery two days we produce the amount of data that was produced in total from the beginning of civilization until 2003. This shocking statistic was first presented by former CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, in 2010. Since then, data production has certainly accelerated. Although mass data processing is nothing new, the hype surrounding the more familiar term “big data” only started in recent years [1]. But many people are quickly getting lost in this ever-growing jungle of data and often quite abstruse data processing methods. » Read more about: Even more ado about nothing … or why the hype about big data and AI is often more about self-marketing than facts and real progress. »
The lifting of the driving ban for Saudi women (finally) creates new job opportunities
/0 Comments/in Knowledge Base, News /by JANZZ.technologyThe women of Saudi Arabia have achieved an important new freedom: finally they are allowed to drive a car. Until 24 June this year, they were legally prohibited from doing so. Now that the ban has been lifted, Saudi women can move more freely, which will likely improve their opportunities in the labor market. Only 22% of Saudi women are currently employed, compared to 77% of Saudi men. When comparing the proportion of working Saudi women with those of other Arab countries, » Read more about: The lifting of the driving ban for Saudi women (finally) creates new job opportunities »
Where self-employment may not always be voluntary
/0 Comments/in Knowledge Base, News /by JANZZ.technologyMany people dream of being their own boss, of not always having to say “yes, gladly”, and thus taking on every unpleasant task that comes to the boss’s mind. At the same time, some people fear self-employment because of the unsecured income and pension. Others see in it precisely an opportunity of having more regularly money in their accounts than employees. Various studies by the OECD (The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) explain the background to this as follows. » Read more about: Where self-employment may not always be voluntary »
How a modern and customized high-performance solution for PES is ready in 180 days
/0 Comments/in Knowledge Base, News /by JANZZ.technologyPublic Employment Services (PES) come from time to time to a point where they are forced to renew their outdated job-search systems or to set them up from scratch in countries where no solutions at all were available before. With the rapidly progressing digitalization, the demands and expectations of such solutions have increased greatly: Consistent processes, intelligent matching, comprehensive data and labor market analyses, simple parsing and classification facilities and so on.
Developing and successfully launching such sustainable and high-performance solutions is therefore a complex task. » Read more about: How a modern and customized high-performance solution for PES is ready in 180 days »