Inspiration
As students who find it difficult to find opportunities and jobs with little experience, we thought of Jobscope to alleviate the stresses behind the career and professional world. 60% of jobs are found through networking — not online. 75% of resumes are rejected before they reach the hiring manager. These statistics are why we wish that everyone can be educated and informed on the current job industry and think with entrepreneurial minds to promote themselves, and potentially promote or recruit for their company/business (if they have one).
What it does
Jobscope helps students find recruiters and explore their interests, while recruiters can find students to hire through this platform. As opposed to existing job search platforms, the large scope of jobs makes it difficult to find and apply for, especially without prior experience or a networking mindset.
Resources on our site can include relevant mentors that can provide resume reviews, career advice, networking and interview tips, and insight into the industry of interest as well. There are also updated guides and tips from professionals that can provide modern insight on how to craft a resume, prepare for an interview, cold email, etc. Community channels allow people to meet professionals, receive feedback, or simply chat about a topic of interest. Creating a simple and customizable profile also allows recruiters to easily view skills, passions, motivations, and experience while alleviating the negative comparisons of public sharing. Our platform is efficient and effective in helping people find their jobs, distraction (other people stalking your profile) and barrier-free (accessibility to real jobs).
How we built it
We used Figma for the website prototype and coded the first page and login page on Qoom!
Challenges we ran into
The biggest challenge for us was time. It was difficult to create a distinctive and complete prototype to be all coded onto Qoom, as we have several pages and ideas in mind. Also creating a prototype that had all the features we had in mind while considering how each feature fulfilled the needs of our intended users, which were youth along with recruiters, and what would make them interested in joining our platform over other alternatives.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We are proud to complete a solidified prototype, learn how to use Qoom, and work together as an inclusive team! It was a great experience going from the ideation to prototyping to coding stages, and we just wish we had more time to create a complete product.
What we learned
We learned how to turn a prototype into a functioning website on Qoom. For two out of three of our members, it was one of their first hackathons, and it was great to hear various perspectives, sharing ideas, and organizing tasks during this short period of time. We learned a great deal of time management, product management, branding, collaboration, and design skills.
What's next for Jobscope
We hope to make a fully functioning product on our Qoom-based website and coding the features in, not only the visual aspects of the site but also search functions, mentor pairings, personal and community recommendations, previews of descriptions of jobs to make it easier to browse (and also for recruiters to fill in a template so that both sides are informed), and the scope progress bar.
As for adding new features, we hope to make job-searching exciting and motivational, through personality quizzes, customizable avatars, achievements that users can receive based on their activity, updates on upcoming webinars, frequent positive affirmations to promote mental health, and more.
Our platform incorporates the best of Indeed/Glassdoor, LinkedIn, Discord, ADP List, and even Eventbrite in the future to provide access to education and experience with a growth mindset to everyone.
For login on QOOM, use the following details: username: [email protected] password: job-scope
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