can I reuse my current job profiles for job evaluation

Existing job profiles as a starting point, not an endpoint

Yes, existing job profiles can serve as a basis, but they usually do not meet requirements without adjustment. Most job profiles are written to describe a job — tasks, purpose of the job, place in the organization — and not to compare jobs with each other on the basis of skills, effort, responsibility and working conditions. The latter is what Directive 2023/970 requires: a classification based on objective, gender-neutral criteria with which you can determine which jobs represent work of equal value, even if they involve very different job titles or departments.

The practical question is therefore not "do we already have job profiles", but "are the criteria behind them suitable for comparing and weighing jobs". A profile that mainly describes in free text what someone does does not yet provide a score or weight per criterion, and that is precisely what is needed to determine how you determine which jobs are equivalent. Moreover, the weighting itself must be gender-neutral: criteria that unintentionally favour one side — for example, counting physical effort but not emotional burden — do not produce a usable classification, even if the underlying job profiles are in themselves fine. What exactly must be documented is described in the question what requirements the law sets for job evaluation, and the way in which criteria are applied in a gender-neutral manner is explained in the overview of gender-neutral criteria in practice.

Where this follows from: Article 4 of Directive 2023/970

Article 4 of Directive (EU) 2023/970 calls for objective, gender-neutral criteria — skills, efforts, responsibility and working conditions — as the basis for determining work of equal value. Article 9 of the same directive links reporting by category of worker to this, which means that the classification must not only be correct internally, but must also be suitable for defining categories about which reporting is done. For the precise implementation and transposition into Dutch law, the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment is the designated source.