Skill Swipe

Hiring is so time consuming because all resumes look identical, you can find the right skills but a horrible personality. But what if it was as easy as swiping reels on your phone?

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Inspiration

Traditional online hiring ecosystems currently have a significant efficiency crisis, as evidenced by individual application success rates that consistently range between 0.1 and 2%. This is primarily due to the high-volume, low-intent application cycles enabled by the “easy apply” features. Consequently, around 75% of resumes are filtered out by Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) before even reaching a human recruiter. While dominant platforms serve as the industry standard, they often prioritize the keyword density over genuine skill or competence. This results in employer response rates as low as 3-13%. As the efficacy of these cold applications continues to decline, more targeted, human-centric strategies such as employee referrals and direct outreach have become more prominent, offering a 35% higher offer rate by bypassing the automated barriers that modern recruitment is facing. Our project Skill Swipe aims to fill this gap.

What it does

SkillSwipe accounts for an individual’s personal preferences, skills, projects, and achievements in order to make finding work easier. The app contains tests that can verify an individual’s skills, and has the ability for past employers to verify an individual’s skills.

How we built it

We built our project by coding it with CSS, JavaScript, and HTML, allowing us to create an interactive and responsive interface. It is hosted on a GitHub Pages where we are able to view the HTML code formatted, but also see and quickly edit the code (it's also free). During the development of this, it was coded by humans, with the help of tools to augment their abilities.

Challenges we ran into

One of the major challenges we faced was intergrating the back end (calculations, rankings, and storing data) with the front end of the website to provide a cohesive (but also functional) look. We overcame this challenge by testing differnet display styles & techniques to see which one ranked the candinates properly. Eventually, we were able to links the front and the back ends of the website together, to provide a cohesive flow.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

During this project, we were able to develop a website and build a working demo. Additionally, we are proud of the other skills gained during the initial stages of the project including outreach in the form of social media, communication in the form of focus group planning and organizing, and research development into areas of interest. Overall, the team is proud of our idea, and the impact it may have on the world. Not only will this help us during the competition, but also continue to develop skills helping us in the future.

What we learned

We learned from this project that recruiting and finding a job is actually many times harder than we had expected; we knew it was difficult, as some of us had firsthand experience with the matter, but we did not expect it to be this difficult. We also learned a lot about how to turn a simple idea into a real platform, such as web design, securing funding, and many more aspects.

What's next for Skill Swipe

Further down the road, we plan to make SkillSwipe more open to the public as it undergoes further stages of development. We are very intrigued by the idea of it, and are definitely interested in continuing with this project.

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