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The format of profiles of jobseekers from third countries and job vacancies should be established using the European Skills, Competences, Qualifications and Occupations (ESCO) classification as developed by the Commission in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/589 of the European Parliament and of the Council, which provides for a standardised terminology for skills, competences, qualifications and occupations and facilitates their transparency. The ESCO classification should support jobseekers from third countries, participating employers and other participating entities, and the EU Talent Pool National Contact Points (the National Contact Points) in providing comparable information on work experience, occupations covered by a vacancy, as well as the skills offered by the jobseekers from third countries and required by the participating employers and other participating entities, thereby enabling a high-quality matching process. Commission Recommendation (EU) 2023/2611 states that national procedures for recognition of skills and qualifications should emphasise a person’s full talent and potential. All types of qualifications and skills, such as vocational education and training, degrees, specific certificates (micro-credentials) as well as skills and competences gained in non-formal and informal settings, could be taken into account. Where applicable, the National Contact Points should use the ESCO classification format for the transmission of job vacancies to the IT Platform. Member States not adopting the ESCO classification for national job vacancies should produce correspondence tables establishing the interoperability between the classification used in the national systems and the ESCO classification. Those tables should be made available to the Commission and should be used for automatic transcoding of information on job vacancies or profiles of registered jobseekers from third countries for the purpose of automated matching through the IT Platform.