Zurich-based Work-ID has closed a profitable €4.2 million financing spherical to launch ‘Abilities-Supervisor’, a device that reveals corporations which individuals match each professionally and personally.
Strategic traders embody the Swiss Business Affiliation (Kaufmännischer Verband Schweiz) and the Zurich Business Affiliation (Kaufmännischer Verband Zürich), two key gamers in Switzerland’s schooling and labor market. Additionally among the many traders is Way forward for Work Group AG, which incorporates established market gamers x28 AG and jobchannel ag, plus a dozen Swiss HR professionals who consider within the concept.
“The abilities scarcity isn’t the principle drawback. Folks and firms merely can’t discover one another. The basis trigger is an absence of transparency,” explains Founder and lead investor Cornel Müller. “The main target isn’t on what issues: folks’s skills.”
Based in 2025, Work-ID is a digital expertise passport that grows all through a working life, making their skills and priorities seen, whereas Abilities-Supervisor is a device that reveals who suits – internally and externally. So, “no appropriate candidate is ever missed“.
New additions have additionally lately joined the crew with Renato Profico becoming a member of as CEO. The previous CEO of JobCloud and Doodle has 20 years of expertise in digital recruiting and the SaaS world. “I’m very excited to remodel the labor market with Work-ID AG. The time is now,” says Profico.
With Abilities-Supervisor, Work-ID says corporations achieve a device to determine and leverage folks’s expertise. They’ll see each talent presently current of their organisation, anticipate shortages, and know the place to seek out lacking expertise.
Alongside Abilities-Supervisor, Work-ID AG is growing its providing for people: Work-ID, Switzerland’s digital expertise passport. Will probably be out there from September 15, 2025 to customers with additional particulars introduced in September.
Early adopters are already utilizing Abilities-Supervisor, provided in a freemium mannequin with no system integration wanted. “With the ability to keep in contact with individuals who present curiosity in us as an employer affords us huge alternatives. And the truth that it’s really easy is all of the extra invaluable,” says Remo Noser of Noser Engineering.
Work-ID AG can also be integrating insights from the Innosuisse flagship undertaking “Swiss Round Economic system for Abilities and Competences”. Companions embody the College of St. Gallen, College of Zurich, EPFL, ZHAW and the Swiss Federal College for Vocational Training and Coaching.
“For many years we’ve championed truthful, progressive working situations, equal alternatives, and employability in Switzerland,” says Sascha M. Burkhalter, CEO of Kaufmännischer Verband Schweiz.
“Not solely will we need to actively counter the talents scarcity, however we additionally purpose to revolutionise and strengthen the Swiss labor marketplace for the long run. Abilities are the foreign money of tomorrow’s labor market,” provides Amalia Zurkirchen, Managing Director of Kaufmännischer Verband Zürich.
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