Employment: job candidates, ask your former boss to recommend you

What could be better than seeing one’s merits praised by a former boss whom one parted with on good terms? Based on this very simple idea, Pôle emploi went into start-up mode to develop a new digital device called “Validated Competence”. Objective: to make reliable and strengthen the applications of the unemployed. “It started from the observation of an adviser. He needed more complete and reliable profiles to better support recruiting companies thanks to a better knowledge of the job seeker,” explains Dominique Aubert, one of the creators of the application.