The Cornell Job Search Lab aims at leading experimental research targeting online job search.
The coming years are likely to coincide with substantial changes in the nature of work and in how people find jobs. Over the last two decades, much of the job search and recruitment activity has moved online. New technologies do not only affect the nature of jobs, but also how people form matches in the first place.
The Cornell Job Search Lab aims at leading experimental research targeting job search. Our goal is to pioneer the next generation of work aimed at better understanding how to form better matches and navigate structural changes.
- The Lab is hosting a job search platform that replicates common features of popular on-line job search platforms. The platform that can be used for research purposes, and explore how new technologies (such as AI-based recommendation systems or other features) can be used to help job seekers find jobs.
- The Lab hosts as research database centralizing research findings from different studies across the world that are relevant to policy makers and other stakeholders.
- We conduct research: we are interested in developing and testing tools that help job seekers to better target their search. We have conducted several studies aimed at evaluating low-cost tools that aim at providing advice to job seekers about what occupations they could consider. We found that these tools can be very effective in helping job seekers to find jobs, and transit of unemployment more quickly.