The Role of PES In the VUCA WorldMaleisya – 15 04 2019

FONS LEROY – CHIEF EXECUTIVE VDAB

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VOLATILITY UNCERTAINTY COMPLEXITY AMBIGUITY

SHARING

ECONOMY

TRANSITIONAL LABOUR MARKETS

Volatility

Uncertainty

UncertainComplexity

Ambiguity

Climate Change

Globalisation

European Pillar of Social Rights

�Active support to employment

� PES as essential services

Role PES in transition

1

Competence-oriented approach

Conductor LM

2

Public Career

Guidance Agencies

3 4

Skills development

Towards a new business model

Future proof

PES

Smart dataCo creation

Digital first Governance

Employees skills

Triple A Organisation

Agility

AbilityAccountability

Worker 4.0

New Contact Strategy

Cascade System

Registration

online selfsupport

1st follow up

6 weeks

2nd follow up

3 months

3d follow up

3 months

online selfsupport online selfsupport

Personal counseling

• digital first

• human digital

• face to face

Career Guidance by Career

Voucher • Transition from Work to Work

• Demand driven system

• Career Voucher = General right

• For employers and self-employed

Towards competence based

matching

• Automatic Matching based on the

COMPETENT database

• Both vacancies as well as profile job seeker

enriched with competencies

• Competencies gaps will be more visible and

can be tackled

• Broadening horizon instead of looking to

‘usual suspect’ candidates/vacancies

Advertisement competency tool for job seekers

Towards competence based

matching

Demand LM

Skills Ambition

Competence enhancement

(self) assessmentEVC / assessmentCompetence visa

Value fitMatching

Employment measures

Orientation & job target determinationTalent reflectionValues reflectionProfessional experience internship

Vacancy management

Deep learning for better

matching

Profile

embedding(numericalsummary of

profile)

Matching with

deep neural

networkVacancy

embedding(numericalsummary of

vacancy)

New applications for a

VUCA-proof PES

Vacancy dashboardWe will offer a more personalised

vacancy dashboard to improve

matching consisting of 3 parts:

• Vacancies suggested by counsellors and

employers

• Vacancies from automatic matching (linked

to profile of the job seeker)

• Amazon-like suggestions based on click

behaviour and data other job seekers with

similar profiles

New applications for a

VUCA-proof PES

Competence finder andcompetence visa•The competence finder will make it easy for

the job seeker and employer to translate their

CVs / vacancies into competences by using

advanced text analytics

•The competence visa will allow employers to

validate their employees’ competences in an

informal way

New applications for a

VUCA-proof PES

Proactive profilingWe will work with data driven estimations of

the job seekers’ chances to find work to better

understand whom to contact first

• Based on historical data of the last 3 years

and using A.I. we predict the chances of the JS

to find work using 200 to 300 data tracks

• Parameters used: demographical elements,

information on our services, click behaviour for

vacancies, currently employed/ unemployed...

New applications for a

VUCA-proof PES

Labour market explorerA tool that enables the job seeker to explore the

labour market based on his competences. It allows

the JS to be well-informed about the opportunities

on the labour market. Main features:

• Based on real-life data

• Offered in an interactive and

intuitive way using big data (Google

a like)

• Developed in co-creation with end users

PES as trusted advisor on LMI

Forecasting by using PES data and sectoral information

Value for citizens, companies and

policy makers

• Knowledge on future skills-needs

• Supports innovation

• Pro-active policy

A labour force with the right skills is of

great importance for future proof

economical development

Way forward: PES taking up a

conductor role in the VUCA

world

V U C AVision Understanding Cooperation Agility

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