Matching Talent to the Jobs of Tomorrow A Guidebook for Public Employment Services 2025

This report is interactive Look out for this icon for pages that can be interacted with To ensure interactive capability, please download and open this PDF with Adobe Acrobat.Contents © 2025 World Economic Forum. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system.Disclaimer This document is published by the World Economic Forum as a contribution to a project, insight area or interaction. The findings, interpretations and conclusions expressed herein are a result of a collaborative process facilitated and endorsed by the World Economic Forum but whose results do not necessarily represent the views of the World Economic Forum, nor the entirety of its Members, Partners or other stakeholders. Images: Getty Images, Midjourney Foreword 4 Executive summary 5 Introduction 6 1 Framework for successful job matching 7 1.1 Job matching: definition and scope 8 1.2 Framework for successful 9 job matching 2 Innovative solutions and use cases 10 3 Case studies 22 Case study 1: France 23 Case study 2: Guatemala 24 Case study 3: Nigeria 25 Case study 4: Philippines 26 Case study 5: Singapore 27 Case study 6: Sweden 28 Conclusion 29 Appendix: Glossary 30 Contributors 35 Endnotes 36 Matching Talent to the Jobs of Tomorrow: A Guidebook for Public Employment Services 2