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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.

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Every 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.  »

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The lifting of the driving ban for Saudi women (finally) creates new job opportunities

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The 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  »

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Where self-employment may not always be voluntary

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Many 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  »

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How a modern and customized high-performance solution for PES is ready in 180 days

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Public 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  »

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Let the women calculate: Why Public Employment Services should convince women of STEM subjects

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Despite many efforts, young women are still under-represented in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Studies show that many advantages can be achieved by completing a STEM degree, both for individuals and for entire countries. Public Employment Services should therefore effectively strengthen the STEM sector. There are various reasons why:

Many employees with a STEM degree earn higher salaries. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics emphasizes that 93 out of 100 STEM occupations have wages above the US average.  » Read more about: Let the women calculate: Why Public Employment Services should convince women of STEM subjects  »

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