POLE EMPLOI (FORMERLY ANPE)

CV-THEQUE

The Project consisted in developing an application allowing the dematerialized management of jobseekers’ CVs. The main axes of the application are easy access to information and communication with existing information systems (Alice, SCAM, GIDE, etc.).

Total project duration: 6 months
The total cost of the project was 150 man-days..

Details of the project :

Problematic

In January 2006, the ANPE of the Lyon Basin reorganized itself into sectoral professional teams for certain fields (e.g. health, hotels, catering, etc.) and into tertiary teams that intervene in sectors not covered by the sectoral teams.

One of the objectives of this reorganization is to place jobseekers in this “tertiary” sector in order to recover market share and reposition the agency as a major player in this buoyant segment, to the point where it is exploited mainly by other intermediaries in the job market.

One of the actions of this new strategy of the ANPE is to develop a reliable, shareable, searchable IT tool that allows users to quickly search for profiles:

Either in order to satisfy job offers as quickly as possible
Either as part of actions to promote skills and present applications (visits to companies, job week, job forums, newsletter, etc.)

The main objectives of the project were :

Enable the registration of athletes and the publication of their analyses
Manage doping control campaigns and results recording

Mission statement

Development of a web application including :

An interface for managing job seekers’ files
Interfaces for import/export of jobseekers’ CVs from/to other existing systems
Multi-criteria search engines

Organization

For the realization of the project, 4 persons have been allocated :

1 project manager and functional manager
1 Architect and technical manager
2 development engineers

This contract was executed entirely with Tana Corp resources dedicated to the project.

Main characteristics of the client

Pôle Emploi (formerly ANPE) is a public establishment whose objective is to centralise job offers and applications and to manage resource centres to help jobseekers in their search for employment.

Conduct of the project

Advice and support role provided throughout the project

A real force of accompaniment: The organization of the project gives a primordial importance to the quality of the accompaniment, to make the customer benefit from the expertise and the know-how capitalized by Tana Corp on its projects of the same type.
Consulting strength : Working in close collaboration with the customer’s interlocutors during the design phase of the solution, as well as our experience in specific development projects have enabled us to propose the best technical and functional solutions to the customer’s various problems. Moreover, Tana Corp is a force of proposal in the highlighting of functional options likely to bring a strong added value.
Expertise in web applications: The management and exploitation interfaces of the results have been realized in the form of web applications to facilitate collaboration and access to information. We used our expertise in this field to create ergonomic and easy-to-use screens to maximize the productivity of technicians using these applications.

Proposed methodology to validate the project steps from a client’s point of view

RProposed project reporting
A monthly steering committee enabled us to steer this long-term project in close collaboration with the client.

Tools chosen for the project management
Project Management: MS Project

Incident follow-up : BugX (based on Mantis, http://www.mantisbt.org/)
Version and configuration tracking: SubVersion (http://subversion.tigris.org/)

Solution features

Business processes covered by the solution

Creation / update of jobseekers’ CVs
Import / Export of the files in several formats
Multi-criteria advanced search with saved searches
Configuration and customization of the fields to be filled in at the level of each CV

What were the most difficult features to implement?

The ANPE wanted to be able to easily update the forms for creating / modifying jobseekers’ files by a non-IT user. Given the impact of this constraint, particularly on advanced search, we developed a forms engine capable of interpreting form definition files (list of fields with their data types, length, groupings, possible values, etc.) and generating the input and consultation interfaces.

Technical platform elements

Software package, software or development languages used

After analysis of all the constraints, Tana Corp proposed the realization of a custom application, based entirely on a Microsoft :

Microsoft .Net Framework, C# language
ASP.NET with AJAX
SQL Server Express 2005
IIS 6 Web Server

Reasons for the choice

Microsoft .Net Framework with C#: development platform allowing an excellent cost/delivery time/quality implementation ratio.
ASP.NET and AJAX: scripting languages allowing the development of WEB interfaces with a high level of ergonomics.
SQLServer 2005 Express: free, high-performance database server, perfectly adapted to the target data volume.
IIS 6 Web Server : Microsoft’s Web server for ASP application hosting

Share of pre-existing developments used on which the Supplier has capitalised to complete the project

Libraries of AJAX interface elements already developed internally by Tana Corp.

Challenges and key success factors

Ergonomics: daily use of the application in a production context, speed of screens and interfaces, validation during input, automatic partial backups.
Scalability: the forms for creating jobseeker files can be modified at will directly in the application, without requiring any particular computer knowledge.

Business result

Today, the developed application is in production fully fulfilling its role and has had excellent feedback from users, who have appreciated it:

The degree of customization of the input interfaces and its ergonomics…
Ease of access to data
Scalability of the application
Ease of use and ergonomics of the user interfaces
Easy access to information