apidays Helsinki & North 2023 API Ecosystems - Connecting Physical and Digital June 5 & 6, 2023 JobEd Connect API: Open matching solution linking educations to occupations Carl Lernberg, Product Lead, Linked Data at Arbetsförmedlingen Jobtech ------ Check out our conferences at https://www.apidays.global/ Do you want to sponsor or talk at one of our conferences? https://apidays.typeform.com/to/ILJeAaV8 Learn more on APIscene, the global media made by the community for the community: https://www.apiscene.io Explore the API ecosystem with the A

1. Open Matching Solution
Linking Educations to Occupations
C A R L L E R N B E R G – P R O D U C T L E A D , L I N K E D D A T A

3. • Developer and IT architect who is
curious about the data scientist field
• Working at the Swedish Public
Employment Service since 2017
• Background from the banking and
national defence sectors
• Runner and running coach
A B O U T C A R L

4. Q & A
Please feel free to ask questions
after the presentation

5. A B O U T J O B T E C H
• Jobtech unit is a digital innovation and development unit within the Swedish
Public Employment Service
• The unit was inaugurated in 2016 by the then Director-General and today has
approx. 50 employees spread throughout Sweden
• The unit is leading the work with the Jobtech Development platform. On the
platform you will find open APIs, datasets, standards and open source code. All
components are available free of charge for anyone to use. The platform
currently brings together around 200 companies and organisations in a digital
ecosystem
• The unit, currently, is working with projects in both the labour and education
markets as part of the government assignment on lifelong learning and skills
supply

6. • Workshops within the government
assignment on lifelong learning and
skills supply
• How could we contribute?
• Which user groups exist in the area
and what are the problems they face?
• What data and APIs do we have access
to?
W H Y J O B E D C O N N E C T ?

7. • Manual process to see if an education
leads to an occupation with a good
future forecast
• Swedish educations are available as
open data via the SUSA hub (the
Swedish National Agency for
Education data hub)
(https://susanavet2.skolverket.se/swagger-ui)
• Manual insights from >200.000
educations in the SUSA hub is
unreasonable
C O N C L U S I O N S F R O M O U R W O R K S H O P S

8. • Jobtech provides historical job ads
from 2006 and forward as open data
(https://jobtechdev.se/en/components/historical-ads)
• Jobtech has an open API (JobAd
Enrichments) for extracting demanded
competences and job titles from
unstructured data in job ads
(https://jobtechdev.se/en/components/jobad-enrichments)
• Identified the following actors:
employers, training providers,
individuals
C O N C L U S I O N S F R O M O U R W O R K S H O P S

9. • Match between educations and
occupations using text analysis
• Match educations from the SUSA hub
or from describing text to support
different use cases
• Use standardized concepts in the
results (e.g. for occupation groups) to
be able to connect to other APIs and
support various use cases
• Implement as open source project
J O B E D C O N N E C T - P R O O F O F C O N C E P T

10. Extracting relevant competences and job titles from historical job ads in Sweden (2016-2022):
G E N E R A T E T H E O C C U P A T I O N S D A T A S E T
Occupation “bucket”:
System developer
Enriched competence values:
Java
Python
Javascript
C#
Angular
Enriched job title values:
System developer
Java developer
Frontend developer
Occupation “bucket”:
Nurse
Enriched competence values:
Health care
Surgery
Nursing care
Enriched job title values:
Nurse
District nurse
Java Python Javascript Java developer System developer Angular Nurse Health care Nursing care Surgery
Historical Job Ad:
Nurse
Historical Job Ad 2:
System developer
Historical Job Ad 1:
System developer
Enriched
occupations
Opensearch
document db

11. M A T C H O C C U P A T I O N S F R O M E D U C A T I O N
Example
education with
description
Extract
competencies
and job titles from
education text
Occupations sorted
on relevance
Bachelor Programme
in Systems Sciences
The systems science program is
designed for the labor market of
the future and leads to a
bachelor of philosophy degree
in systems science…
Java developer
Java
System developer
Databases
Enriched
occupations
dataset
Match
occupations from
education
System developer
Programmer
Frontend developer
DBA

12. L A N G U A G E S A N D T E C H N O L O G I E S
• Open Source (Apache licence 2.0)
• Python Scrapy for fetching education data from APIs and web
• Minio/S3 for temporary storing data
• Open Search (Open Source dist of Elastic search) document db
• Micro Services deployed as containers in Red Hat Openshift
• Python Flask API
• Demo App in Angular

13. https://demo-jobed-connect.jobtechdev.se
J O B E D C O N N E C T D E M O

14. J O B E D C O N N E C T A P I
https://jobed-connect-api.jobtechdev.se
• Search/fetch educations (i.e. from the SUSA-hub)
• Match occupations from the SUSA-hub education
• Match occupations from text, for example education descriptions and
education plans
• Match education from job titles

15. Q & A
Please feel free to ask questions!