ESCO and EURES

ESCO Member States Working Group

13 November 2017

Kornelia Kozovska Zoltan Patkai

Regulation (EU) 2016/589, in force since 13 May 2016

A stronger network of European employment services

at EU level that delivers more efficient labour market

information exchange and more intra-EU matching

1. Enhanced transparency: more jobs advertised +

more CV's available;

2. Online multilingual skills-based matching: JV –

CV;

3. An agreed minimum package of services for job

seekers and employers in all MS

4. Mobility information exchange system (= share

more information to reinforce practical

cooperation across MS within the network)

5. A broader network: for more and better services

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EURES Regulation (EU) 2016/589 – Art. 19

on automated matching

• MS shall cooperate on interoperability between national systems and the European classification (ESCO)

• EC shall adopt and update ESCO by means of implementing acts

• Each MS will (within 3 years) establish an initial inventory to map national, regional and sectoral classifications to and from ESCO

• MS may choose to replace national classifications with ESCO or maintain interoperable national systems

• EC to provide technical/financial support to MS for establishing an inventory establish or replacing the national systems with ESCO

• EC shall adopt the technical standards and formats necessary for the automated matching through the common IT platform (both using only ESCO and national interoperable systems)

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ESCO facilitates job mobility for EURES users

… better understanding of job vacancies/ job applications coming from other countries for Jobseekers / Employers / Case handlers

… improving search and matching algorithms even across language barriers

… improved matching between jobseekers and job vacancies

… improving data forms, e.g. by automatically suggesting skills an employer might be interested in

… helping job seekers identify skills that would increase their employability and on this basis EURES can offer related learning or training opportunities

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EURES Standards and Formats &

ESCO

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Governance EURES & ESCO

Two independent processes

Member States Working Group on ESCO (MSWG)

Input Member States' representatives for the technical preparation of the classification (= advancing the work towards implementing act (Article 19(2)

EURES Coordination Group (ECG)

Input Member States' representatives for the technical preparation of the operation of automated matching through the EURES portal (= advancing the work towards implementing act Article 19 (6))

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EURES Regulation Implementing acts

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Art 17 (8) – Standards and formats for JVs and CVs

Art 11 (8) – National admission systems

Art 31 (5) – Programming cycle: activity plans + reports

Art 32 (2) – Indicators and performance measurement system

Art 19 (2) – ESCO (I) – Adoption of the list

Art 19 (6) – ESCO (II) – Matching and mapping

Early 2018

Mid 2018

Control of implementing acts

• Comitology procedure

• Review by EURES Committee

• EP and Council

• Right of information – draft documents in Comitology register

• Right of scrutiny EP and Council if an act is considered exceeding implementing powers

• Public consultation

• On the Better Regulation Portal (4 weeks)

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EURES Coordination Group (ECG) 24-26 Oct 2017 meeting ESCO-related highlights

• A call for the need of PES to become more aware of the implications of the implementation of ESCO as part of the Regulation

• Some EURES Services are using ESCO common language and collaboration facilitator functionalities

• ESCO related topics – to be discussed at the next ECG meeting on 12 December 2017

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ESCO Q&A on Article 19 of the

EURES Regulation (Handout)

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Thank you ! Questions?

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Business Cases on ESCO integration at the EURES Portal

& Network

Backup Slides

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Business Cases

1. ESCO in Job Application/ Find Candidate

2. ESCO in Job search / Matching

3. ESCO in Find a Job

4. ESCO enables EURES CV & JV hubs

5. ESCO for OUTPUT

6. Other Applications

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1. JOB APPLICATION/ FIND CANDIDATE KEY FEATURES

• A place where jobseekers can create their electronic CV, to be found by European employers

• Personal information

• Personal presentation/Cover

• Work experiences

• Education and training

• Language skills

• Skills

• Driving license

• Attached documents

• + Desired employments

CV Structure – Fully compatible with the Europass format

– Using the ESCO taxonomy to describe occupations and skills

– Multilingual – up to 10 CV linguistic versions

– Includes the section “desired employments” = desired occupations, locations, and conditions

• A place where employers can search for jobseekers from throughout Europe who are interested to work abroad

– Powerful multilingual search

– Based on the ESCO taxonomy

– Quick search = keyword and job location

– Advanced search = many additional fields: skills, education, occupations, languages…

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1. Job Application/ Find Candidate

Jobseeker Profile (JSP) = CV + Requests + Data Privacy &

Consent

CV

Requests

Data Privacy & Consent

ESCO

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1. Job Application/ Find Candidate

CV

Requests

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1. Job Application/ Find Candidate

CV

Requests

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1. Job Application/ Find Candidate

CV

Requests

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1. Job Application/ Find Candidate

Occupations index

Free text index

Skills index

Basic

search

+ algorithm for sorting CV results

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1. Job Application/ Find Candidate

Basic

search

Advanced

search

Exact match

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2. ESCO in Job search/Matching

Improvement of search form user interface using ESCO

Adoption of ESCO by the PES for mapping Job vacancies

EURES PORTAL

Search Engine

NL

BE

…

UK

web

ser

vice

s

ESCO (1)

ESCO (2)

Keyword-based user

guidance for filling

search

Matching on

occupations instead of

unit groups (ISCO)

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2. ESCO in Job search/Matching

Improvement of search form user interface using ESCO

Adoption of ESCO by the PES for mapping Job vacancies

Direct matching between CV’s and Job vacancies

EURES PORTAL Search

/Matching Engine

NL

BE

…

UK

web

ser

vice

s

CV (+ Requests) +Privacy &

consent

ESCO

Job vacancy

ESCO Skills & competence-based

matching

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3. ESCO in FIND A JOB Today the user can select one or more ISCO 08

occupations. They are used to search against the

ISCO08 occupation codes that are on the job

vacancies.

.

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4. ESCO as an enabler of the

EURES CV & Vacancy hub

Interoperability of Job vacancies

Interoperability of CV’s

PES + other partners (PRES…)

EURES PORTAL

PES NL PES BE

PES …

PES UK

EURES CV

HUB

Partner Partner

Partner

Partner

EURES Vacancy

HUB

Industry standard

(HR Open)

CV & JV formats incl.

ESCO

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4. ESCO as an enabler of the

EURES CV & Vacancy hub

Interoperability of Job vacancies

Interoperability of CV’s

PES + other partners (PRES…)

EURES CV

HUB

EURES Vacancy

HUB

OTHER PARTNER Matching Engines

EURES PORTAL

Matching Engine

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5. ESCO for OUTPUT

All data received is brought to ESCO V1

inside the index tables by mappings

All applications will use ESCO V1 as occupation codes. Today we use ESCO V0 and ISCO 08

The API’s could accept ISCO and ESCO codes

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6.Other Applications - BI intelligence

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6. Other Applications - Predictions

6. Other Applications - Predictions

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