If you are looking for a job in France, you can quickly and easily find a new position with Bob. But Bob can do even more: for example, he tells job seekers how y can continue to train in order to have good – or better – opportunities in job market in future. Bob, this is name of open source ProjektBob emploi, in which Google is also involved. For several months it has been fed with data and statistics Derfranzösischen employment offices. And Bob does what he knows: his placement rate is 42 percent, a very high value in European comparison. The artificial intelligence is only being tested in beta phase. In long run, Bob should be a smart, self-learning system that can even create predictions about job market.
"Such a thing would be possible for Germany," says economist Ayad al-Ani. He explores internet-based innovations at Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG); At same time he is managing director of consulting agency Tebble. No or institution in Germany has as much data as Federal Employment Agency (BA), says Al-Ani. It is a treasure with gigantic potential. If authority were to use it with artificial intelligence on model of Bob, employment offices could compete with all personnel consultations, Economist believes. If data were linked toger, researchers from labour agency could, for example, anticipate future problems of labour market and prevent ir emergence by means of data analyses. And y could design effective labour market policy instruments on basis of analyses.
The necessary money would be available because BA has high reserves in times of a booming economy. With 5.5 billion euros, its surplus in year 2017 was even around 700 million euros higher than expected. Overall, BA for adversity has returned slightly more than 17 billion euros. At end of year 2018 it should be 19.7 billion euros. The financial cushion is so large that even in a long and severe economic crisis re is still a lot of money left, labour market researcher Holger Schäfer believes in employer-oriented Institute of German Economy (IW).
Prefer to reduce contribution to unemployment insuranceHowever, a fundamental conversion of BA to exploit possibilities of digitisation is currently not an issue in Germany. The Union and SPD have only agreed in ir exploratory paper that contribution to unemployment insurance should be reduced by 0.3 percent. "This would benefit both employees and companies," says Schäfer. In addition, two parties are planning to provide more money for furr training in future and to give all workers a right to a furr education consultation.
Suggestions as to what could be started with BA's reserves in addition, re are mainly left-wing parties and trade unions, for example, y want to reverse part of Hartz reforms, for instance by extending subscription period of unemployment benefit. Or y want to abolish sanctions. More money for furr training, as planned by Union and SPD, are all good. But no one wants to change anything about BA structure.
That would be necessary. The agency has developed into a huge apparatus, which, although statistically, market events in labour market, but also manages those who have little chance of doing so. Currently, placement rate is 13 percent; In case of academics, it is even lower with 6.4 percent. No wonder: Those who are well trained will find a new job in many cases not by intermediary at employment office, but in ir own professional network, through social media, headhunters, jobs and speculative applications. Companies, in turn, are mostly looking for specialists – and y find m more through specialized personnel consultations than with BA.
In this way, those who are eir low-skilled and precarious, and refore also in boom of unemployment, often remain dependent on mediation by Labour Office. Or those who have been without a job for a long time – number of long-term unemployed has stagnated for years with nearly one million people. These two groups are in urgent need of targeted and individually appropriate furr training, says DGB board member Annelie Buntenbach, who is also a member of board of Directors of BA. Many of m would be "passed directly into Hartz IV. For every fourth who loses job, that is case today, "says Buntenbach.
Date Of Update: 20 January 2018, 12:02
