Enabling job seekers’ self-representation in job application: Online CV platform for job seekers’ seamless job search journey and self-representation

The client of the project is Quincy Dalh, who works in organizations supporting job seekers with their job searching journey. He organized the project brief that aims to develop ideas for an online job-matching platform that brings healthy changes to the hiring process. He gave a working title for the platform called HelloCareer. Quincy’s focus...

Empowering Academic Graduate Job Search: The Design and Validation of a Task-Based Vacancy Platform

A significant portion of academic graduates have difficulty finding a first job after graduation. Research shows that the expectations of academic graduate job seekers and employers do not align and this graduation project confirms that job seekers and employers do not speak the same language. On the one hand, job seekers do not seem very able...

Working from Home and the Willingness to Accept a Longer Commute

It is generally found that workers are more inclined to accept a job that is located farther away from home if they have the ability to work from home one day a week or more (telecommuting). Such findings inform us about the effectiveness of telecommuting policies that try to alleviate congestion and transport related emissions, but they also...

Females’ Willingness to Work and the Discouragement Effect of a Poor Local Childcare Provision (discussion paper)

We analyze the effects of regional structures on females’ willingness to work as well as on the probability that non-employed women who are willing to work actually will engage in job search. Special permission was granted to link regional data to individual respondents in the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Results of a bivariate probit...