5 Q’s with Claudio Sponchioni, CEO of Jobiri – Center for Data Innovation
The Center for Data Innovation recently spoke with Claudio Sponchioni, CEO of Jobiri, a company based in Italy that offers AI-powered tools to help job seekers navigate the job market. Sponchioni explained how the platform personalizes job matching, improves career coaching, and supports users with smart features like resume builders and interview simulators.
David Kertai: What inspired the creation of Jobiri?
Claudio Sponchioni: While leading career development programs, I repeatedly saw talented individuals struggling to access quality career support that was effective, affordable, and scalable. Traditional services were often fragmented, outdated, or simply out-of-reach to those who needed them most. My brother Roberto and I saw an opportunity to change that. We built Jobiri to make high-quality career support accessible to more people by offering job seekers a personalized, AI-powered digital career coach. Our goal wasn’t just to improve the job search, but to rethink how people build their careers in a digital-first world.
Kertai: What does your AI-powered digital career advisor offer?
Sponchioni: Our AI-powered digital advisor provides personalized, around-the-clock support to reduce job search time and improve career outcomes. Acting as a smart digital coach, it guides users through every stage of the process, from crafting effective resumes and cover letters to preparing for interviews and optimizing LinkedIn profiles.
What sets our platform apart is its ability to deliver expert-level guidance at scale. Developed in collaboration with career professionals, our tools replicate real coaching experiences through CV builders, interactive mock interviews, and job matching engines aligned with user goals. We’ve also integrated over 150 expert video lessons and interactive planning tools to build both strategy and skills. Whether someone is entering the workforce, changing industries, or returning to the job market, Jobiri offers personalized, actionable pathways forward.
Even after users land a job, Jobiri continues to support their career growth. The platform’s digital advisory analyzes anonymized and aggregated workforce data to help individuals identify their skills gaps, monitor learning progress, and uncover opportunities for advancement. These insights power personalized learning paths and tailored career development resources, enabling users to grow in their field, pursue internal mobility, or prepare for their next steps. By making this support available at a large scale, Jobiri not only helps users stay competitive and confident in a changing job market, but also reduces the administrative burden on HR teams, allowing them to focus on long-term talent development.
Kertai: How does Jobiri’s AI system track and collect user data to create best practice recommendations?
Sponchioni: We take a responsible, transparent, and privacy-first approach to data, gathering only what users consent to share, and using it exclusively to support their career development. What sets Jobiri apart is that our AI system doesn’t remain static. It evolves with every interaction, constantly learning from user input and refining its guidance. This evolution is driven by continuous data feedback loops, where anonymized user outcomes, such as interview rates, job offers, or skill improvements, inform model updates. Indeed, our AI-driven system collects and analyzes up to 180,000 job opportunities daily from across hundreds of sources, detecting emerging trends in skills, industries, and job roles. This dynamic job market data is continuously fed into our models to ensure users receive real-time, evidence-based recommendations tailored to current hiring demands. Our team also regularly fine-tunes algorithms based on market shifts and user feedback, ensuring that our platform’s AI system remains both relevant and responsive.
Kertai: What was the biggest challenge in building Jobiri?
Sponchioni: Balancing human empathy with technological precision was a significant challenge. Career coaching is deeply personal, and people are often vulnerable when seeking jobs. While AI can bring scale, speed, and intelligence, we were determined not to create a cold, robotic tool. The challenge was to build a platform that feels like it listens, understands, and supports, rather than replaces, human career experts. Achieving this balance required years of refinement, user testing, and expert input. We focused on designing an AI system where interactions feel intuitive and responsive, ensuring users receive guidance that is not only smart but also empathetic and human-centered.
Kertai: Can you share any tangible achievements that Jobiri has made in its field?
Sponchioni: Absolutely. Today, Jobiri is trusted by over 150,000 job seekers, more than 1,200 career coaches, and numerous institutions across Italy and Europe. We’ve reduced job search time by up to 50 percent for these users, helped them increase salary expectations, and modernized career services in universities, job centers, and municipalities.We’ve received over 10 national and international awards, including recognition from Italy’s leading conference on public sector innovation in 2019, the Forum PA Challenge, and being a European finalist in the MIT Inclusive Innovation Challenge. But beyond awards, our most significant achievement is the impact, helping thousands of people find meaningful jobs faster and providing institutions with tools to reach and support more users effectively. That’s what drives us.
