Our project Job#1 was accepted to the AI for Accessibility Hackathon
May you feel better than when you realize your solution can help many people with disabilities?
A simple key to a successful project is an inspiration. That means not to think about how much money and how quickly you get but to know to whom you would like to help and what you would like to change in this world. Our project Job#1 has its own idea: to make the world of recruitment faster, easier and more enjoyable and now we can say that our solution can get 15x more CVs from the company carrier page. We could say that our mission is completed BUT…
Because our solution is based on Artificial Intelligence it was accepted to Hackathon called AI for Accessibility. The goal of this hackathon is to help people with disabilities in the retail industry by solution based on one of these topics: Employment, Daily life, or Communication. This hackathon is supported by Microsoft, Sdružení VIA, and The Vodafone foundation Czech Republic. The possibility to participate at this hackathon sparked further and we expanded Job#1 with new functionality which will help millions of people with disabilities.
How specifically will our solution help to employ people with disabilities?
Based on our knowledge in data science, we developed a machine learning model that automatically detects people with disabilities based on knowledge of positions where people with disabilities work. Job#1 will detect these people in two different steps:
1. Recruiter post a new position and Job#1 automatically detects suitability of this position for disabled people according to the type of disability. For many positions it can be new information for recruiters.
2. Candidate put his/her CV on the career page and Job#1 automatically detects suitable positions for his/her type of disability. Thus, it pushes the candidate to apply for a position even there is no information about suitability for disabled people.
We trust the AI hackathon, which is due to the Covid situation held in online form running during the following two months, can sprinkle our solution. For now, Hackathon brings us a partnership with the NFOZP (Endowment fund to support the employment of people with disabilities, www.nfozp.cz). It does not matter if we will win the Hackathon or not, the opportunity to be part of this great event help to move our solution to the next level and help people who really need it.
