Dawning of the Age of Data

PESPod - the insiders' guide to the EU labour market

How collecting data helps people to find jobs

In episode 9 of PESPod, Federico Muniz, Deputy General Director of Statistics and Information and Maria-Jose Arias, Head of Guidance and International Programmes at SEPE, the Spanish PES inspire us with the story of how they developed Send@ – their new data management system aimed at helping jobseekers to find the right jobs or training opportunities for them. Hear the story of how Send@ emerged following a recommendation of the PES Network around three years ago and a process of “getting inspiration from different tools and situations”. Already at this relatively early stage, the system has allowed 500 counsellors to let 30,000 clients know what has been found to work best for similar profiles of clients in similar situations. There is no compulsion to follow the data, just better informed advice. Find out how close exchanges with all 17 regional PES in Spain and the different types of experience and sectoral expertise they bring were crucial to the development of the tool: “No one is as clever as all together!” Listen also to find out more about the plans of the Spanish PES to expand use of this tool across their approximately 12 million annual client interactions and how artificial intelligence tools are being used to monitor job vacancies posted online. Finally, hear why the creation of such a system may not be as expensive as you might think…

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