This study provides a new lens for understanding labor market information systems (LMIS) and offers guidance for the focus and sequencing of investments in their development. 

This report presents an evaluation of web-based labor exchange platforms with advanced matching technology to connect candidates with opportunities, with the intent of selecting a finalist platform to be piloted in Minnesota with RealTime Talent partners. This report summarizes the traits and functionality of 11 platforms for posting jobs online, focusing on their matching capabilities, innovative approaches, and respective costs. Eight companies agreed to participate in a full interview and rubric-based evaluation, which included a function test of each live site and a guided demo from job-seeker and employer perspectives.

This short video explains the important role employment services play in job matching, enhancing employability, addressing skill mismatches, and linking support directly to employers and workers through operating various active labor market programs.

This study focuses on online outsourcing’s potential as a new and innovative channel for socioeconomic development for developing country governments and development practitioners, particularly in terms of youth employment, services exports, and participation in the digital economy. 

This brief summarizes the impact of a job search planning intervention on job search efficiency and employment among unemployed youth in South Africa. The planning intervention improved participants’ job search intensity and efficiency, leading to higher rates of employment.

This toolkit offers a series of guidelines and tools for institutions that want to offer career guidance services to disadvantaged youth and has been developed from learnings of the New Employment Opportunities (NEO) program in Latin America and the Caribbean.

This note describes best practices around career guidance for young people as part of a holistic youth employment effort and is designed to serve the needs of a variety of youth-serving institutions.

This toolkit is designed to support initiatives aimed at raising young people's awareness of their rights at work. It provides hands-on examples of recruitment practices and workplace situations.

This case study presents findings from a youth entrepreneurship initiative in Palestine supported to enable more than 5,380 students at 54 secondary schools in the West Bank to make informed career decisions and plan their professional and academic futures.

This case study presents findings an initiative with Palestinian university students with access to comprehensive career guidance services.The study focuses on the role of private sector partnerships and work with the public sector to institutionalize a continuum of career guidance services benefiting young people.

What are search frictions? What role do they play in the analysis of markets? Why are they important? This paper answers these questions, providing context for issues related to job hunting and matching platforms.