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ESCO: We expected an ontology – we got a disappointing term collection

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Almost four years had passed. We have waited for a long time – and we were curious to see what the EU has announced grandiosely. Steadily excited to see if it solves well-known problems of classification systems. The classification of the European Union for occupational data is called “ESCO” (European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations). Up to now, classifications have been solved by all states on their own, such as ROME in France or KLdB in Germany or CP in Italy.  » Read more about: ESCO: We expected an ontology – we got a disappointing term collection  »

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Our Article on the “Google for Jobs” Initiative Now Also Available in French, Spanish and Arabic!

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The landscape of online job search has gained a significant addition with wide-ranging implications. In line with its recently announced initiative Google for Jobs, Google launched a new jobs search feature right on its search result pages that lets you search for jobs across virtually all of the major online job boards. Google’s new initiative not only has the potential to disrupt the online job search market, but the initiative’s underlying data model, an occupation ontology,  » Read more about: Our Article on the “Google for Jobs” Initiative Now Also Available in French, Spanish and Arabic!  »

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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.  » Read more about: NAV selects JANZZ’s ontology-based solution for modernizing its labour market platform.  »

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Google Launches its Ontology-powered Jobs Search Engine. What Now?

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This week, the landscape of online job search has gained a significant addition with wide-ranging implications. In line with its recently announced initiative “Google for Jobs”, Google launched a new jobs search feature right on its search result pages that lets you search for jobs across virtually all of the major online job boards. Google’s new initiative not only has the potential to disrupt the online job search market, but the initiative’s underlying data model,  » Read more about: Google Launches its Ontology-powered Jobs Search Engine. What Now?  »

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Building a Job Matching Engine for the Global Labor Market

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Understanding resumes and job ads, and finding the best matches among a great number of them is probably one of the most challenging tasks for machines today. The results and the precision of search and matching processes are dependent upon the scope and depth as well as the quality and comprehensiveness of the applied contextual and background knowledge.
Job postings are often worded in industry- and company-specific jargon that job seekers do not search for and would not use when writing their resumes.  » Read more about: Building a Job Matching Engine for the Global Labor Market  »

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