High unemployment is creating pressure to link jobseekers to vacancies faster. Every government has needed to reassess the viability of their labor market solutions during and after the pandemic. Still, necessity is the mother of invention. There is some good news for the Public Employment Services tasked with restoring the economically active workforce. We identify 5 top trends in the world of Public Employment Services.

The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken the world of recruitment, resulting in unprecedented changes to the labor market. While we edge tentatively towards a ‘new normal’, smart Public Employment Services’ caseworkers are looking for “high-tech” solutions to create new employment opportunities.

Tourism and business travel can only recover from the COVID-19 pandemic crisis by mitigating the risk of importing COVID-19 across borders. Solutions under consideration include introducing health passports for passengers and automated health controls on arrival. Anticipating the demand for innovative health security solutions, WCC has extended its HERMES Border Security solution to include a COVID-19 Health Dashboard.

The events triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic during the last year have led most of us to evaluate our lives, and in some cases, our careers. Many have done so by choice; others have needed to do so in order to survive. Stringent and unprecedented measures were required to contain the pandemic and avoid the collapse of public health systems. Whilst these containment measures differed, and countries have been impacted to varying degrees, the resulting global unemployment crisis is a problem to be solved together. Find out more in our blog.

In this second blog of our series on Global Security, we take a look at European security. Just as on the global stage, the main challenge is how to close information gaps between security and information systems used by diverse law enforcement agencies. The EU needs to achieve interoperability between law enforcement agencies and police forces on the national level while closing security gaps on the EU regional level.

In our blog, we take a look at the issues raised in a World Bank article on the impact of COVID 19 on employment in Latin American and Caribbean countries. Estimated job losses in the region currently total 47 million. WCC’s knowledge-driven Employment Solutions can play a key role in economic recovery in countries hit hard by the crisis.

Increasing globalization has led to profound implications for security. Technological advances have led to the development of information systems that help governments share information, keeping their borders and citizens secure. Interoperability between these systems is essential to their success. In this series of three Global Security blogs, we examine different types of identity data, standards, and technology that can contribute to optimum interoperability.