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.
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