Helping jobseekers signal their skills: A cost-effective strategy benefitting workers and firms
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What is it?
Signalling interventions bridge the information gap between firms and workers, helping jobseekers target their search, improve their applications and boost earnings while offering large potential aggregate gains.
How can jobseekers more effectively signal their skills and what advantages does this bring to both workers and employers? In this episode of VoxDevTalks, Tim Phillips speaks to Marianne Bertrand and Stefano Caria about what the latest evidence reveals about the effectiveness of interventions designed to enhance how jobseekers communicate their abilities.