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Change Implementation 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
IMPLEMENTATION UPDATE 
Project Name: 
Universal Jobmatch 
Go-Live Date: 
19 November 2012 
Project Number: 
J2414 
Update Number: 
 IU 045            Issue Date: 25.01.2013  Version 
Number:  1 
Senior Responsible Owner (SRO): 
Myrtle Lloyd 
Business: DWP 
Contracted 
Work 
Contact 
Customer 
Pensions Benefits  Services 
Centre 
FIS OED 
NINO 
Services 
Directorate 
Services 
Directorate
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Audience: Work Services Directorate 
  All Jobcentre staff who use the UJ service 
 NEST 
 
 
   
 
 
 Update 
For 
action/information 
Timing 

Universal Jobmatch MI –  
Information & Action 
Immediate 
Number of Live Jobs 

Universal Jobmatch - Dual 
Information Immediate 
Access Jobroles 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Personal details redacted as Section 40 (2) of the Freedom of Information 
Act applies – Personal Information 
 
 
 
Update

 
1.  UJ MI Number of Live Jobs - Issues have been raised about the number of live/active 
jobs shown in the standard Universal Jobmatch MI Report 
 
“Number of Live Jobs” Ref 02-MI-07. 
 
This report is held in the Jobs and Jobseeker Searches folder. 
 
Users have advised there are discrepancies when deriving the number of live/active jobs 
from the standard report when compared to results produced by using the ad hoc 
reporting tool 
 
The standard report requirement is as follows
The MI solution must provide the total number of Jobs that are active/open, of those 
posted yesterday, in the last week, 1 fortnight ago, 1 month ago and more than one month 
ago, or add in a period as specified by the user to give more flexibility. A Job which is 
active/open is still being advertised (i.e. has not passed its closure date) that a jobseeker 
can select on UJ.                                                                  
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The report has been developed following the literal meaning of the requirement and needs 
to be interpreted and understood in the correct way. 
 
 

 
Where a date range is selected in the report, the system will look at the new jobs posted 
during that period and will report the number of those new jobs that are still active.  
 
Example - if you select the period 27th January 2013 to 2nd February and there have been 
100 new jobs posted during that time, the system will look to see which of those 100 are 
still active and that will be the figure returned in your report. So, if 50 are still active that is 
the figure you will see in the report. The same principle applies if you request a figure for 
a day, a month or any other period. 
 
The report does not provide a snapshot of the total number of live jobs regardless of the 
posting date. As this information is required by several areas of DWP, MIART will be 
commissioning a new report from Monster.  
 
Until the new report can be delivered by Monster, reliable figures on live/active jobs can 
be obtained by using the Ad Hoc MI Reporting Tool.  
 
If you do not have direct access to this tool please try and identify a colleague who does 
who will be able to assist you. 
 
When more details are known about the delivery of the new report a further update will be 
provided. 
 
If you have any queries about this communication, please contact the MI and Audit 
Requirements Team inbox at the following e mail address: 
 
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2.  Dual Access for Operational Staff - The change we are proposing is the creation of a 
new user group which will give access to both employer and jobseeker functionality.   
 
It is proposed that this new user group must be limited and will only be used in the small 
number of instances where it is deemed necessary for a member of staff to have access 
to both sets of functionality. 
 
The ‘dual access’ requirement is being impacted and is included on a list of changes for a 
future release. A further memo will be issued once the implementation date is known 
 
 
 
If you have any queries about this communication, please contact your Local Change 
Team as follows: 
 

Contact Us 
OPD Change Team 
Team Project Lead 
 
 
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Telephone  
 
 
 
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