Rationale

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Applying for a job spontaneously is the key to applying successfully. 50 % of the real job openings never take the form of a 'job vacancy'. Given the fact that nearly all companies have their own website nowadays, the Internet has become the most important source of information for job applicants in the actions they take to apply for a job. For that reason, different measures were taken and different projects were set up to enhance the access of jobseekers and employees to the Internet. However, even persons who have access to the Internet to support their job hunt will often not find the necessary information because 1. they are overwhelmed by the amount of information they find or 2. the information looked for is not available. There is a need for a tool – linked to the Internet – that gives the jobseekers access to the information they need to apply for a job spontaneously and independently. At the same time employers need to be convinced of the importance to release that information. The tool to be developed must also allow employers – and specifically SMEs – to play their trump cards on staff policy level and fill in (bottleneck) occupations in the best possible way.

Due to the modernization of the labour market (clients are stimulated to first use our online services and the call centre, 'our service line') the jobseeker threatens to lose his/her access to the local labour market information that used to be provided by/available in his/her local job shop or VDAB office. For we cannot expect from the call centre operator (and especially from the anonymous online services) that he/she knows which sectors are leading the market in every part of the country, which are the major employers in that part, which companies are difficult to reach, … The tool to be developed must not handicap the jobseeker who continues to use the contact services channel to receive first line services while favouring the jobseeker who uses the online and call centre channels. This tool must map the knowledge about the local labour market and business that is available in the contact services and open it up to the online and call centre services channels. In other words, a knowledge management system must be developed that will enable the modernization of the labour market to be fully realized.

There is a need of a tool that

1. expands the information about companies on the basis of information provided by the companies and by VDAB collaborators
2. can be supplemented with information about the local labour market
3. allows jobseekers to find companies via search criteria such as 'sector', 'required competencies' and 'employees' profiles', irrespectively of possible job offers.

Beside a tool for jobseekers who spontaneously apply for a job, this tool may also hold a strong 'orientating' character. For the tool also answers the jobseeker's question 'where can I go with my competencies?'

Objective

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Ambisys wants to develop an online tool for the target group of 'jobseekers who spontaneously apply for a job'. This tool must enable jobseekers to collect all relevant and up to date 'job application information' easily (i.e. in a structured way) and in a self-reliant way (i.e. with as little intervention as possible by the placement counsellor). This must enable the jobseekers among other things to, independently of accidental job offers, gain an idea of the companies that they can go to with their competencies and ultimately find the employer (and the job) that is the most in line with their career aspirations. The tool fits within the ambition of VDAB to realize a 'comprehensive approach', i.e. offering a pathway to work to all jobseekers.

Behind the online tool is a knowledge management system that 1. collects, updates and manages the company information (and information about other external actors) provided by the employers in a simple way and 2. maps and opens up the knowledge about companies and the local labour market of the VDAB collaborator. Ambysis pursues that all relevant, current and high-quality information is directly shared with the jobseekers through the on line channel and that all counsellors from all local job shops and the call centre can dispose of the same high-quality information about companies and the local labour market.

Ambisys wants to examine whether information about companies can be grouped in 'quality labels', in which way companies that undertake special efforts for diversity, LLL, flexibility (e.g. family-friendly company) can be put in the spot light, and if possible also realize these labels.

Innovation

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AMBISYS is essentieel om de werkzoekenden en de VDAB-werknemers mee te nemen in het verhaal van de informatiemaatschappij, waar naast beroepsgebonden competenties (kennis, vaardigheden en attitudes) de kunst van het vinden van de juiste informatie steeds moeilijker en belangrijker zal worden. Ambisys zorgt er daarbij voor dat alle werkzoekenden op hun niveau stappen kunnen zetten in deze informatiemaatschappij en dat de werkgevers en andere bezitters van belangrijke informatie blijvend aandacht houden voor de informatie, die belangrijk is voor de vraagzijde van de arbeidsmarkt.

Ambisys is met andere woorden tegelijkertijd een dynamische databank die essentiële informatie geeft voor de werkzoekende en een instrument dat uitnodigt om stil te staan bij het belang van die informatie.

Budget Action 2

500 000 – 1 000 000 €

Beneficiaries

Empowerment

 With beneficiaries

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De opmaak van het databanksysteem start vanuit de behoeften van de werkzoekenden. Tijdens fase 1 van het project zal projectpartner Vlerick deze behoeften peilen door het samenstellen van focusgroepen van werkzoekenden (primaire doelgroep).

Ook de intermediaire doelgroepen zullen via dezelfde methode bevraagd worden.

Daarna zal zowel de kladversie als de demoversie van het project voorgelegd worden aan enkele groepen werkzoekenden. Op basis van hun opmerkingen zal de uitwerking van het instrument aangepast worden.

Ook de intermediaire doelgroepen zullen via dezelfde methode bevraagd worden.

 Between national partners

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Alle projectpartners zijn vertegenwoordigd in de stuurgroep, het hoogste beslissingsorgaan van het projectpartnerschap.

Transnationality

 Percentage of the budget for transnational activities

• 15.0%

 Transnational Co-operation Partnerships

Background

 Involvment in previous EU programmes

• Two and more partners involved in A&E

National Partners

Agreement Summary

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De Vlaamse samenwerkingsovereenkomst is samen met de raamovereenkomst consulteerbaar op het ESF-agentschap.

VDAB

Contact person(s)

Unizo

Contact person(s)

Vlerick Leuven Gent management school

Contact person(s)

AMBISYS