2021
Brussels
Government
Service design
Work-to-work transitions in uncertain times
VDAB is the employment service of Flanders and helps people find work and develop their careers.
- As a facilitator, we create the inspiring network for this.
- As a service provider we encourage citizens to develop their talents and competences to the maximum.
Our mission is to ensure, organize and promote job placement, guidance and training in the interests of employers, employees and job seekers with a focus on the lifelong and sustainable integration of job seekers and employees into the labor market.
Challenge
CareerFlow's ambition is to offer constructive solutions to employers in order to avoid having to dismiss employees or to make them redundant themselves. By allowing employees to temporarily or permanently start working for another employer, their competencies are used optimally and we avoid them ending up in unemployment. To make this possible, a number of 'real life' living labs are being set up in cooperation with various stakeholders, including SD Worx, Acerta, Federgon, ACV, ABVV, Accent, Voka, Unizo, KU Leuven and many others, in order to provide optimal guidance for these work-to-work transitions.
VDAB asked The Argonauts to develop customer journeys and service blueprints for these transitions in which the employee is put central, in order to optimize the user experience.
Approach & results
In the preliminary stage of CareerFlow, we developed generic customer journeys based on interviews with the project partners (see above) to map the 'as is' flow of different types of work-to-work transitions. In doing so, we distinguished between:
- permanent transitions
- temporary transitions
- 'pooling' whereby the employee works for different employers
These customer journeys were elaborated from the point of view of the 3 key stakeholders: the employee himself, the employers and the HR service provider.
In a next step, we are now setting up several living labs with giving and receiving employers who wish to enter into a transition process. In these living labs, the generic customer journeys will be further refined on the basis of interviews, focus groups and co-creation with the various parties involved. In doing so, we will of course put the employees involved centre stage! So far, 3 living labs have been started up for Fluvius, Inagro and Perpodium. Very soon also labs for Delhaize, Cleaning Masters and G4S will be launched.The ultimate aim is to arrive at optimised service blueprints with which the HR service providers, the VDAB and the trade unions can steer the transitions in the right direction.
The aim is to ultimately arrive at optimised service blueprints with which the HR service providers, the VDAB and the trade unions can optimize the transitions experience of the employees.
