The research behind Taaly Jobs

Jobs looks simple: a list of vacancies and a chat that helps you apply. Underneath sits a lot of homework. This is what we studied before we built it.

The job journey, occupation by occupation

For a newcomer, “becoming a security guard” or “driving for Wmo transport” is not one step but a route: orientation, screening and conditions, diplomas, a first contract. We mapped these routes per occupation into job journeys, so the app can tell you honestly what a job asks of you before you apply. The same honesty is in Jobs: every vacancy shows the hours and the place, and you can ask what a job needs first.

Official data, not guesses

For skills and occupations we build on CompetentNL, the skills language of UWV and TNO, and on the official sectoral development paths that describe how people grow within a sector. When the recruiter concludes from your answers what you can do, that conclusion follows a public standard, not a private guess. And when the rules for a job matter, we point to the official organisations, because rules change and they decide.

What newcomers told us

From hundreds of conversations with learners and with municipalities, three barriers came back again and again: vacancy language is too hard, application forms assume a Dutch CV, and nobody knows which employers are genuinely open to newcomers. Jobs answers all three: vacancies from employers open to newcomers, an application that is a conversation in simple language instead of a form, and a CV that is optional.

And we keep measuring

Inside the app, every learner can rate the feature and tell us when a vacancy is not right. A person at Taaly reads every application. That feedback is the research that never stops.

Read how Taaly Jobs works.