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With the Work Explorer, we can help you find work faster.

Last change on 16th of January 2025, at 12:07 (CET) | Publication Standard 1.0

• Publication category: Other algorithms
• Impact assessment: DPIA
• Status: In use

General information

Theme

• Social Security
• Work

Begin date

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Contact information

https://www.uwv.nl/nl/service-en-contact/contact-uwv

Link to source registration

https://www.uwv.nl/nl/over-uwv/organisatie/algoritmeregister-uwv/werkverkenner

Responsible use

Goal and impact

After you have applied for WW benefit, you will receive a questionnaire via your Work Folder: the Work Explorer. It contains questions about your employment history and your chances on the labour market. The Werkverkenner is also an algorithm. It allows us to see whether we need to give you additional support in finding work.

Considerations

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Human intervention

UWV employees monitor the use of the algorithm in the following ways:

• We regularly check whether the algorithm uses the correct data.
• We always discuss with you whether the results of the Work Explorer are correct. If you made a mistake when completing the questionnaire, you can discuss it with a staff member. You can also complete the questionnaire again at any time.
• The UWV employee decides together with you what you need to find work. So the algorithm does not make any decisions itself.

Risk management

We ensure that we remain compliant with information security and privacy requirements. We do this in the following ways:

• We continuously work on algorithm maintenance.
• We delete data that is not (or no longer) important.
• We have other organisations check our compliance with legal and ethical standards.
• An external and independent organisation carries out quality checks to test whether the algorithm is careful. This is in addition to the checks that our specialist UWV staff do as standard.

The Work Explorer is designed so that everyone looking for work is treated in the same way. This is done as follows:

• All jobseekers receive the same questionnaire.
• The Werkverkenner processes all answers and other data in the same way.

Legal basis

WW benefit

Elaboration on impact assessments

Instead of the national IAMA standard, a UWV Ethical Impact Assessment was conducted.

Impact assessment

Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA)

Operations

Data

The Work Explorer uses information from your Work Folder and the UWV system. All jobseekers are registered in this system. This includes the following information:

• Your answers to the questions in the online questionnaire in your Work Folder. Many questions are about your personal motivation and situation. For example, about what you are looking for in a job and whether you would prefer to work full-time or part-time.
• Your personal details known to UWV. Most are in the UWV system or on your CV on werk.nl. Think about your age, your last employer and how long you have been entitled to WW benefits.

The algorithm uses the following data:

• your age on the first day of your WW benefit
• how long you worked in your previous job
• how you envisage returning to work
• what kind of work you are looking for and which professions you think fit in with it
• how long you are entitled to unemployment benefit at most
• in which industry you worked before you became unemployed
• how you apply to employers
• whether you think not working has more, as many or fewer advantages than disadvantages
• whether you are partly, but less than 35% incapacitated for work, so that you cannot get WIA benefit
• Whether you would like to work full-time
• how many hours a week you can work
• Your level of education
• Whether you would like to work outside normal office hours
• whether you have income from work in addition to your WW benefit
• your citizen service number (BSN)

Technical design

The algorithm compares your data with those of jobseekers who found jobs quickly in the past. This produces the following 2 results:

• A personalised overview of your job opportunities. This also shows what you could improve to find work faster.
• A score indicating how likely you are to find work within a year. Only the UWV employee can see this score. If necessary, we share the score with you in a personal interview.

According to the algorithm, do you have less than a 50% chance of finding work again within 12 months? Then we will invite you for an interview earlier. A UWV employee will then look with you at how we can help you. The employee can use the personal overview of your talents and skills for this purpose.

Have you not heard anything from us, but would still like advice? Even then you can always request an interview.