video1.0<iframe src="https://www.loom.com/embed/c1a6d6a060b6465eb4204a89ca6cb73b" frameborder="0" width="1280" height="960" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen></iframe>9601280Loomhttps://www.loom.com9601280https://cdn.loom.com/sessions/thumbnails/c1a6d6a060b6465eb4204a89ca6cb73b-00001.gif126[Project Description] We all have known someone who deserved a chance, needed a way to show why they were capable of more than the qualifications they held or how their resume would be read. Students, early school leavers, new migrants, disadvantaged job seekers, life long workers from industries in transition - all people that employers and community out there, know to have potential and ability, but struggle to show what they can really contribute when the soft skills and life experiences they have, cannot be measured or demonstrated to be as relevant to a job or career as a paper certificate. Our solution changes this. We are providing a social software platform that: 1) allows individuals to identify, demonstrate, and evidence progress and development against key soft skills (e.g. teamwork, communication, resourcefulness, creativity) and see how others are working on developing themselves; 2) provides the ability for employers to communicate what soft skills are important for which roles, and identify valuable individuals that they can invest in growing and nurturing, that would otherwise be overlooked or pushed down the resume pile with current recruitment information; 3) creates up-to-date data-backed insights from publicly available sources (e.g. Census, ACT Gov and Data Victoria), published research from council and industry groups (e.g. the RDA Barossa, Gawler, Light and Adelaide Plains), and voluntarily collected information from individuals on the platform, to inform what specific gaps there are in employment support services or career development programs in target communities or schools, and create insights about which skills, based on employer provided information, should be prioritised for development in areas affected by industry transition; and 4) provide a social and modern means of recognising and motivating more of the day to day behaviours we value in individuals, colleagues and the community, and where deployed in a educative or organisational context, sets goals and aspirations for how people can work together and value each other's place in a team. The data we are using, which meet the eligibility criteria of each of the challenges we are addressing, is a part of the functionality of the solution we are providing itself, but importantly, is also what informs where and how this solution should be implemented. The core issues in the challenges we are trying to solve are difficult and have been around for a long time. No solution is perfect by itself but we think what we are providing can help make a big step towards empowering Government, education providers, support groups, employers and individuals with the information and ability to recognise the potential in a person and not just a piece of paper.