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Águeda’s manufacturing industry is facing a shortage of talents: youths seem not interested in the industry, probably influenced by the stereotypical vision of manufacturing jobs as tiresome, uninspiring and low-paying. With 60% of sales coming from the manufacturing sector, Job mismatch can have dangerous consequences such as an increase of the unemployment rate, firm delocalization and slow-down of the long-term developments within Águeda.
Schools and career support institutions play a key role in helping students or job seekers to transition into the workforce, but lack of human or financial resources can undermine their mission and so the future of new generations.
JOBIRI is the first AI based digital career advisor that helps institutions, jobseekers and employers to accelerate job matching within local communities.
JOBIRI is available 24 hours and it is designed to provide a complete and personalized support to accompany job seekers’ journey from education to employment through proprietary algorithms of artificial intelligence.
On public institutions’ side, JOBIRI allows to overcome career support operational and physical limits. It improves the support for job seekers and tracks all the activities allowing career coaches to monitor the full process while providing remote assistance when needed. This help to keep job seekers engaged throughout their activities.
On the employers’ side, JOBIRI provides the best employer branding tools to attract candidates. It showcases companies’ workspaces, vision, benefits by creating a virtual tour of the company and allowing current employees to become company ambassadors.
Jobiri has a strong social impact accelerating job placement and improving labour market services. In particular, making JOBIRI available to local jobseekers, institutions and employers in Águeda we expect to reach 4 main goals: (i) to boost the local labour market participation of youth jobseekers strengthening their employability skills, (ii) to help local manufacturing enterprises to reach, attract and retain employees, (iii) to digitalise and to make more effective the career support services provided by the municipality and schools, (iv) to reduce public expenditure for unemployment subsides.
JOBIRI is the result of more than 9.800 hours of analyses and sharing of best practices among recruiters, career coaches and HR experts. Together with solution designers and software engineers, we developed a tailored and intuitive technology able to fit the specific needs of job seekers, institutions and employers, with an all-in-one value-added platform.
JOBIRI was released in September 2017 and it is successfully used by 6 Italian institutions and has got an initial investment by Area Science Park, one of the most important scientific and technologic park of the Italian Ministry of Research, Education and University.
Jobiri is ready to collaborate with Águeda to make this project a success at local and Portugal level.