How does open data in the labor market become more relevant with AI? There is potential to find entirely new solutions for matching, career guidance, and lifelong learning. Today, I moderated a discussion with Mattias Axell from MetaSolutions and Rasmus Häggkvist from Skoolie about AI and open data in the labor market at Goto 10 for Swedish JobTech.
Some of the insights that we touched upon during the discussion:
- Open data from the public sector is part of the principle of public access to information and should be available to us citizens.
- Using open data from the Swedish National Agency for Education, the Public Employment Service, and others in combination with AI, Skoolie has built a career guidance bot that can support with study and career counseling based on open data. A support tool for career counselors in several municipalities.
- Can we, with the help of open data and AI, better match the 300,000+ unemployed with the 70,000 roles that TechSverige says are missing in the tech industry?
- Open data that perhaps should be made available: number of applicants for different positions on the job bank, salary statistics by role, gender, location, etc., working hours for various positions, and more. Imagine the possibilities for reviewing salaries and setting expectations.
- Private actors can gain visibility by making open data accessible, which can benefit society.
- In the labor market, AI can help us with better matching, study advice based on actual needs in the labor market in real time, conduct initial interviews without bias (hopefully), write CVs for individuals, and more.
- When data becomes open, it opens up opportunities for entrepreneurs and innovators to create entirely new types of solutions for societal benefits, in the labor market and beyond.
- Can we trust an AI bot that interprets the data? What happens if the data is wrong or contains bias? How do we relate to what is true and false? Here, we need to learn to use AI as a tool but not lose ourselves in it completely.
- The government needs to appoint a CIO who prioritizes open data from the public sector.
A big thank you for a really exciting discussion! There are many possibilities, but there are questions about how we take development and prioritization forward in this area. Thanks to the audience and to Olle Lundin and Lars Sjöström, who are behind the association’s focus on AI and the labor market.
