Nordic Job Portal
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| Coordinator | THREADSAFE STUDIO AB |
| Funding from Vinnova | SEK 100 000 |
| Project duration | May 2015 - October 2015 |
| Status | Completed |
Purpose and goal
Our idea was to create a website that would make the Nordic single job market a practical reality, by allowing users to search for jobs throughout the Nordic region from a single website in a single language. This was to be an improvement over the current situation where different websites and languages make the Nordic region a single job market only in theory. We have managed to launch a proof-of-concept website at http://nordicjobportal.com, where users can search for jobs in Sweden and Denmark, all in the language of their choice.
Results and expected effects
We created our own API: the Nordic Job Portal backend, which standardises and translates data from the Swedish and Danish Public Employment Services (PES), and the first consumer of this API: the Nordic Job Portal frontend, which is the website online at http://nordicjobportal.com. These two components are working proofs-of-concept that provide both a demonstration of how PES data can be integrated and rendered, and also a foundation for further work in the area.
Approach and implementation
The two components of the Nordic Job Portal - the website frontend and the PES-integrating backend - are built on the design principles of Sweden´s new national medical journal system (Nya Nationella Patientöversikten), albeit in a vastly simplified form. This has meant that the resulting products are extremely stable, their code is very easy to follow, and their structure can support later growth to a level of complexity similar to Nya Nationella Patientöversikten.