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Analyzing skills data. Can you see the gorilla?
/in Knowledge Base, News /by JANZZ.technologyThis is the fourth and last in a series of posts about skills. If you haven’t already, we recommend you read the other posts first: Cutting through the BS and Sorry folks, but “Microsoft Office” is NOT a skill and The poison apple of “easy” skills data – are you ready to give up that sweet taste?
In the third post of this series, we discussed the challenges and opportunities of online job advertisement (OJA) data. » Read more about: Analyzing skills data. Can you see the gorilla? »
The poison apple of “easy” skills data – are you ready to give up that sweet taste?
/in Knowledge Base, News /by JANZZ.technologyThis is the third in a series of posts about skills. If you haven’t already, read the other posts first:
Cutting through the BS and Sorry folks, but “Microsoft Office” is NOT a skill.
In the second post of this series, we discussed skills and the issues around defining and specifying them. Assuming we can reach some kind of common understanding of this valuable new currency, the next step is to find a way to generate meaningful skills and job data. » Read more about: The poison apple of “easy” skills data – are you ready to give up that sweet taste? »
Sorry folks, but “Microsoft Office” is NOT a skill.
/in Knowledge Base, News /by JANZZ.technologyOne of the most prominent buzzwords around employment, employability and workforce management is skills. There is a lot of noise surrounding this concept and its fellow buzzwords like reskilling, upskilling, skills matching, skills alignment, skill gaps, skills anticipation, skills prediction, and so on. One can find myriad publications and posts explaining why skills are so important, how to analyze skills supply and demand, how to develop active labor market policies based on skills, how to manage and develop employee skills – as well as the many sites listing the “most in-demand skills” of the year. » Read more about: Sorry folks, but “Microsoft Office” is NOT a skill. »
JANZZ named as a Sample Vendor for Skills Ontologies in Gartner Hype Cycle for HCM Tech 2020
/in Knowledge Base, News /by JANZZ.technologyWe are proud to announce that JANZZ.technology has been identified by Gartner as a Sample Vendor of Skills Ontologies in the Hype Cycle for Human Capital Management Technology 2020. This recognition validates the innovative approach of our solutions for businesses and public employment services based on our unique multilingual job and skills ontology.
What is the Gartner Hype Cycle?
“Gartner Hype Cycles provide a graphic representation of the maturity and adoption of technologies and applications, and how they are potentially relevant to solving real business problems and exploiting new opportunities. » Read more about: JANZZ named as a Sample Vendor for Skills Ontologies in Gartner Hype Cycle for HCM Tech 2020 »
JANZZ’s job matching platform ParaEmpleo singled out by the IDB as an AI success story
/in News, Press /by JANZZ.technologyThe IDB is an important driver of artificial intelligence as a tool to address challenges in the labor markets in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). As part of the IDB’s fAIr LAC initiative studies, they recently published an interesting report on how to utilize AI for labor intermediation in public employment services (PES). This technical paper provides an overview of key aspects considered by PES when deciding to adopt AI for their operations, » Read more about: JANZZ’s job matching platform ParaEmpleo singled out by the IDB as an AI success story »