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Turns out I'm at high risk of long term unemployment if I were to move to Denmark...

smcl 4y ago
Me too, not sure if I should be worried or if the algorithm is a bit wonky. I am in my mid-30s, graduated with university degree in a STEM field, and have been continuously employed since I left university but filled it out as if I had just quit. The summary after I entered everything showed the following decision tree: How quickly do you believe you will get a job: "Don't know" (I've enough savings to carry me a couple of years, no rush) Origin: "Western immigrant" Verdict: high risk of long-term unemployment. If the little summary is to be believed, there are no other important factors. Changing my "Don't know" to 3 months reduced me to "low risk of long-term unemployment". So if I’m not mistaken, the main factor for their estimate for how long you will be unemployed … is your estimate on how long you’ll be unemployed?
- tokai 4y ago
  A bit wonky is a very mild way of putting it. Absolutely garbage seems more precise.
- timvdalen 4y ago
  I think we entered the exact same data!
- mrweasel 4y ago
  It might be a case of the algorithm not being designed for your case. If you work in IT, you most likely only have to deal with the unemployment office is you've been hit by stress and is trying to recover. The unemployment office almost exclusively deal with people who are very reluctant to seek employment or have other issues that might prevent them from functioning in the job market (lack of education, mental issues, health issues, language barriers and so on). That does leave them with some funny interactions when someone outside those categories show up. A friend of my took a spent month, after getting hit masters degree in CS, finding the right job. That meant that he need to show up at the unemployment office. They where only able to offer him a forklift certification, which he didn't need or want. In the end they just left him alone for a month and he found the job he wanted. Overall the Danish unemployment office is remarkably bad at finding jobs for people or even help them get better qualifications. There's an entire book written about it (based on one journalists experiences). In the book the only person, that particular office found a job for is one they hired themself.

smcl 4y ago

Me too, not sure if I should be worried or if the algorithm is a bit wonky. I am in my mid-30s, graduated with university degree in a STEM field, and have been continuously employed since I left university but filled it out as if I had just quit. The summary after I entered everything showed the following decision tree: How quickly do you believe you will get a job: "Don't know" (I've enough savings to carry me a couple of years, no rush) Origin: "Western immigrant" Verdict: high risk of long-term unemployment. If the little summary is to be believed, there are no other important factors. Changing my "Don't know" to 3 months reduced me to "low risk of long-term unemployment". So if I’m not mistaken, the main factor for their estimate for how long you will be unemployed … is your estimate on how long you’ll be unemployed?

tokai 4y ago
A bit wonky is a very mild way of putting it. Absolutely garbage seems more precise.
timvdalen 4y ago
I think we entered the exact same data!
mrweasel 4y ago
It might be a case of the algorithm not being designed for your case. If you work in IT, you most likely only have to deal with the unemployment office is you've been hit by stress and is trying to recover. The unemployment office almost exclusively deal with people who are very reluctant to seek employment or have other issues that might prevent them from functioning in the job market (lack of education, mental issues, health issues, language barriers and so on). That does leave them with some funny interactions when someone outside those categories show up. A friend of my took a spent month, after getting hit masters degree in CS, finding the right job. That meant that he need to show up at the unemployment office. They where only able to offer him a forklift certification, which he didn't need or want. In the end they just left him alone for a month and he found the job he wanted. Overall the Danish unemployment office is remarkably bad at finding jobs for people or even help them get better qualifications. There's an entire book written about it (based on one journalists experiences). In the book the only person, that particular office found a job for is one they hired themself.