The Nordic Job Portal has been developed by a Swedish company with
the help of a 100,000 kronor (€10,800) grant from the Swedish
innovation agency Vinnova.
Pascal Chatterjee, project leader at Threadsafe Studio in Stockholm,
developed a pilot concept during the Hack for Sweden hackathon, a
cooperative effort by Swedish authorities to drive innovation using
open data. That website is
already up and running.
“With the Vinnova funding we are now planning to develop the website
and integrate information about job opportunities in all of the Nordic
countries. We use computer translation which makes it possible to
search for and find results in the appropriate language.“
The employment services’ data are open and the company is now
visiting each country to discuss how to best make the service
accessible to more job seekers. The aim is to increase the number of
cross-border job applications. The portal aims to open in 2015, first
with a basic version for Sweden which will be expanded towards the end
of the year with new tools and countries.
There are already several websites which advertise Nordic jobs, the
largest being the European Commission’s EURES portal,
which also uses open data from employment services.
“We hope to be able to provide a better user experience and also
better computer translation,” says Chatterjee.
