[toumhi]

I currently work in a French administration predicting which companies are likely to hire in the next 6 months (in France).

It's a long-term freelance gig in a joint venture between the french secretary of economy and the national unemployment agency.

My job title is officially Lead Developer for the project but since we're such a small team (the idea is to borrow the organisation and process of a startup in a big french administration, bypassing their hellish processes), I also help in copywriting, system administration, monitoring, and the most interesting : machine learning using a huge amount of economic/recruitment data to predict which companies will hire. We have pretty good results!

It's a great gig and hopefully of social value to France which needs it at the moment (unemployment is at an all-time high right now).

[gedrap]

What are the use cases for this kind of data?

[toumhi]

The main objective of the product is to help job seekers identify which companies are worth spending time for sending an open sollicitation.

75% of the job market is "hidden" (jobs that were filled without the company ever posting a job ad). We help the job seekers to identify this hidden job market.