Foot in the Door

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Inspiration

Many refugees come to Australia with high level skills in professions such as medicine and engineering. At the same time, many businesses and organisations in Australia are unable to find staff with appropriate skills to meet the needs of their operations. We want to bridge the gap between the two by setting refugees up with mentors from their communities so that they can become job-ready in Australia and so that they can use their skills to have a fulfilling career in fields where they already have expertise.

What it does

Foot In The Door is a platform that links unestablished skilled migrants with established skilled migrants for mentorship and referall purposes and to businesses for internships and employment opportunities.

Unlike existing job platforms and internship programs or platforms, Foot In The Door leverages community support from professionals and nurtures development of migrants and refugees in an accessible manner with a human focus.

How we built it

We built it using a Haskell web framework called Yesod.

Challenges we ran into

Working out the demographic we were catering for was challenging due to the lack of available data on the detailed skill level of migrants.

Limiting scope, and figuring out a commercially viable solution was an interesting process.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Our prototype, user flow and the solution we have designed to address the problem!

It's amazing how 7 strangers came together on a Friday evening and had an amazing idea ready to go by Sunday arvo. We've run our idea by a few members of the target demographic and they have been very supportive.

What we learned

We learned about the challenges facing refugees in being able to use their existing skills to find appropriate work in Australia.

What's next for Foot in the Door

We will create processes to enable mentors and businesses to establish their profiles on the site.

We have factored phase 2, 3 and 4 into a product feature and development pipeline.

Built With

haskell

Submitted to

Techfugees Melbourne

Created by

Programming and jokes

Noon van der Silk
I hosted three collaborative workshops to provide UX Design solutions.

The first was defining the problem statement and solution, the user experience we wanted to create and the feature roadmap defining different phases beyond the Hackathon.

The second workshop was designed to map out one user journey from end-to-end and ensure the user flow was coherent and streamlined to achieve the goal of our platform for the end user.

The third workshop was an iterative design sketching session where we sketched out the different web pages for features and layout collaboratively, voting on the best designs to implement.

I conducted research online and in person with humanitarians, refugees and online resources at the Techfugees Hackathon looking into the needs of our end users and the data that supported the opportunities our platform needed to create - the doors it needed to open for refugees and how they would be facilitated.

The web pages we sketched were based on the user flows created in the previous workshop.

I conducted paper prototyping user testing with test subjects in the hackathon who happened to be our exact target audience - Unestablished or recently established skilled migrants/refugees.

I then researched UI designs and worked closely with front end devs to produce the web pages and user flows.

Finally, I created a video documenting the clickable website and user journey.

Richard Lipp
My contribution is Based on humanitarian.Settlement process for the new migrants

Elyse Niyonkuru Daniel
Saarah Ozeer
Community Leader, Co Founder and Director of Bounce - Refugee Youth Mentoring Program, Australia Post AFL Multicultural Community Ambassador
Sam Lin
emma simons
Tara Junaid