How your distance to the job market is assessed
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The Swedish Public Employment Service uses statistical assessment support to make a so-called profiling. It refers to the automatic processing of personal data used to assess certain personal characteristics of a natural person, in particular to analyse or predict factors such as your financial situation, personal preferences, interests, behaviour or whereabouts. The Swedish Public Employment Service will use profiling to assess your distance from the job market.
Based on your enrolment information
The profiling is based on your enrolment information and any information that is available about you in our systems. The Swedish Public Employment Service can also retrieve information from other authorities, such as the Swedish Migration Board. The data processed include enrolment time, education, age and conditions in your area of residence.
Your distance to the job market
The Swedish Public Employment Service has assessed that this data is relevant to assess your distance from the job market. For example, a long enrolment period will indicate that you are further from the job market. As a jobseeker, this will place you in one of the following categories, which shows which measure is better for you.
Three different categories
- You are assessed as having a small need for support and can handle yourself with, for example, the Swedish Public Swedish Public Employment Service's digital services.
- You are considered to need extra support to find employment or start studying.
- You are considered to be in need of in-depth support that the Swedish Public Employment Service will investigate further.
The best support for you
No matter what category you are placed in, you will always meet an employment officer. The employment officer makes an assessment based on all the information we have about you and then makes a decision on support. Profiling together with categorisation will only serve as a basis for decisions regarding support.
Your information is protected
The information you provide to the Swedish Public Employment Service is covered by confidentiality and is processed according to, among other things, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Your data will be deleted no later than three years after the end of the year during which the processing of the data has been completed in a case with the Swedish Public Employment Service. Personal data that has been separated for statistical purposes will be deleted ten years after the separation. The data may only be handled by authorised personnel and stored with us for a maximum of three years.