EURES - The European Job Mobility Portal
Information initially from http://ec.europa.eu/eures/home.jsp
Introduction
EURES appears to be based around a fairly simple recruitment model, where individuals search for job vacancies by their ISCO classification (which is in fact an occupational rather than a skills classification), the country, keyword, and then contract duration, length of experience and qualifications. Competence itself is implied or inferred.
InLOC will be attempting to find a good contact within EURES to discuss possible future requirements. At present these are unclear.
General information
(see Example source guidance)
| information to be gathered | details |
|---|---|
| Name / title of source/model and version if applicable | EURES |
| Stakeholder | many stakeholders of different kinds |
| URL of source or stakeholder | |
| Orientation (work, education, etc.) | work |
| Explicit model or implicit model? | implicit |
| Can organisations have competence? | no |
| Number of people currently affected | millions |
| Sectors covered | all |
| Groups of actual users | employers; employment agencies and services; jobseekers |
| Significant use cases | |
| Significant business cases | |
| Sample materials | |
| Key features influencing their uptake of InLOC outputs | unknown |
Features
(see the Features page or the separate pages for each feature)
| N | Features | ? | notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 00 | More than one model | 0 | at present, no substantial model of competence |
| 01 | Identifiers | 0 | |
| 02 | Hierarchy (internal) | 0 | |
| 03 | Internal relationships | 0 | |
| 04 | External relationships | 0 | |
| 05 | Conditionality / optionality | 0 | |
| 06 | Text syntax | 0 | |
| 07 | Structured identifiers | 0 | |
| 08 | Classification | 1 | occupational classifications only |
| 09 | Level attribution | 1 | optional specification of 0 to 6 on qualification level (see below - not correlated with EQF) |
| 10 | Level definition | 0 | |
| 11 | Context | 0 | |
| 12 | Evidence and assessment | 0 | |
| 13 | Extensions | 0 | |
| 14 | Profiles | 0 | |
| 15 | Adaptation | 0 | |
| 16 | Definition by example | 0 | |
| 17 | Learning resources | 0 | |
| 18 | Learner records | 0 | |
| 19 | Multilinguality | 1 | category headings are provided multilingually in the web site, but job titles and descriptions are not routinely translated |
Further information
Experience levels for EURES
A - None required
B - Up to 1 year
C - Up to 2 years
D - Between 2 and 5 years
E - More than 5 years
Qualification levels for EURES
0 - None Specified
1 - Compulsory Education / Professional Initiation
2 - Vocational Training / Apprenticeships
3 - Higher Technical Training
4 - Advanced Technical Training
5 - Higher Training, Including Academic
It would be useful to know if there are plans to use ESCO classification in due course.