The Brief
"Put forward suggestions for how technology and the web can be used to help young people find the employment, education or training opportunities that are right for them."
Introduction to my solution
YourPosition enables young people to locate places that have current job positions available, these are sent as a notification alert on their mobile device. As soon as the user enters into a certain location, the app searches for vacancies over a certain mileage of radius from their current position. As well as sending vacancy alerts it also rates them in urgency or importance, for example it would be of a bigger brighter alert if the application date was near or after setting up the app with your dream job specification it will also search for aspects of your spec that will relate to sending urgent attention alerts that are related exactly to the users needs.
The Problem
Personally I think that trying to find a job as a young person is one of the hardest things to do. Job vacancy website are okay, but communication is limited and job positions are not updated on a quick enough basis, meaning that you can be applying for a job thats position has already been filled. Also for people who want to work in a certain area it is hard to know where a job is available without trawling through job websites, YourPosition stops this and automatically sends you a notification when you enter a location, searching a personaliseable mileage radius for available vacancies.
The Idea
YourPosition enables young people to locate places that have current job positions available, these are sent as a notification alert on their mobile device. As soon as the user enters into a certain location, the app searches for vacancies over a certain mileage of radius from their current position, these are then located using the mobile devices GPS. As well as sending vacancy alerts it also rates them in urgency or importance, for example it would be of a bigger brighter alert if the application date was near or after setting up the app with your job specification it will also search for aspects of your spec, that will relate to sending urgent attention alerts that are related exactly to the users needs.
YourPosition would work by being attached to the web, searching through vacancies that display their address, any that are seen as being within your personalised mileage radiuse would be automatically sent to your mobile device.
What I would need to make It work
All you would need to make YourPoint a success would be to create an app which is available for people to download, with a short survey for the user to fill in giving aspects of their job specification. This would then connect to the internet and by using the mobile devices GPS nearby jobs will be sent through as an alert.
You can see my application within the competition on the Simpl website.
Monday 16 January 2012
Monday 9 January 2012
big brother, i am now a fan....
I have never really got into watching Big Brother but after watching ten minutes last night with my housemates, one element attracted me to this years series. Not the task the celebrities were doing or the comments made in the diary room, I was more interested in what the contestants where sitting on, the diary room chair.
This beautiful piece extrudes the natural feel with the form of the chair taking on the natural properties of the piece of material it is made from, a wooden abstract piece with a brown leather cushion strip that also follows the form of the wood. I love how the designers (of which I would love to know who they are, as after researching I cant find anything) have left the sides of the chair extended showing the gorgeous dark wood and not covering it with the cushion. Also how the cushion creates a visual insight of the chair being spacious via the changing of the width of the pleats as they run down the the base of the seat and then flaring out as it extends up to the backrest and down to the placement of the users legs. The quirky little legs are also something that should be noted, they are of a form that you wouldnt expect to see on a chair like this, giving the chair character.
Eventhough it might not be as comfy as a padded arm chair, I love it, well done to the designer of Big Brother's Diary Room Chair!
This beautiful piece extrudes the natural feel with the form of the chair taking on the natural properties of the piece of material it is made from, a wooden abstract piece with a brown leather cushion strip that also follows the form of the wood. I love how the designers (of which I would love to know who they are, as after researching I cant find anything) have left the sides of the chair extended showing the gorgeous dark wood and not covering it with the cushion. Also how the cushion creates a visual insight of the chair being spacious via the changing of the width of the pleats as they run down the the base of the seat and then flaring out as it extends up to the backrest and down to the placement of the users legs. The quirky little legs are also something that should be noted, they are of a form that you wouldnt expect to see on a chair like this, giving the chair character.
Eventhough it might not be as comfy as a padded arm chair, I love it, well done to the designer of Big Brother's Diary Room Chair!
Monday 2 January 2012
caught my eye...
While browsing the January sales in the furniture section of BHS these contemporary looking lights really caught my eye. The clean cut, brightly coloured, curved pieces of plastic gain your attention as to how each seperate piece is joined together. That is when you see the mesh like structure around the plastic, creating another modern yet playful dimension to the light. Maybe by using a different material for the mesh structure, something that would create an effect when the light is turned on, maybe a reflection by using a metal, this would make the piece even more of a focal point.
After finding these I then went on to look at other designers who have also used mesh structures within their lighting pieces, that is when I found the work of rick tegelaar on designboom. Within his work he uses mesh structures to create different shapes, the materials are simple but the shape that is created is enough of a focal point, flashy eye catching materials aren't needed.
After finding these I then went on to look at other designers who have also used mesh structures within their lighting pieces, that is when I found the work of rick tegelaar on designboom. Within his work he uses mesh structures to create different shapes, the materials are simple but the shape that is created is enough of a focal point, flashy eye catching materials aren't needed.
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