High-tech AI trial to fill vacancies

High-tech artificial intelligence (AI) is to be rolled out at a Kent Jobcentre as part of a six-month nationwide trial to marry jobseekers with local vacancies. The Government-backed match-making service will start in March at 20 selected sites across England and Scotland - with Maidstone the only place in Kent included. It forms part of the Government's Way to Work campaign which aims to get 500,000 people back into work. The technology will pose a series of questions to those seeking work to build up an online profile - this will then be fed into the software, described as'cutting-edge' by Government chiefs, to point jobseekers in the right direction to existing vacancies or towards a local skills'bootcamp'. It will not, however, be mandatory.