Verifiable talent resume solution on UCTalent, Cardano talent platform

[GENERAL] Name and surname of main applicant

Duong (Django) Nguyen Ngoc

[GENERAL] Email address of main applicant

duong@uctalent.io

Additional applicants

Hieu Tran

[GENERAL] Please specify how many months you expect your project to last (from 2-12 months)

5

[GENERAL] Please indicate if your proposal has been auto-translated into English from another language.

No

[GENERAL] Does your project have any dependencies on other organizations, technical or otherwise?

No

[GENERAL] If YES, please describe what the dependency is and why you believe it is essential for your project’s delivery. If NO, please write “No dependencies.” .

No dependencies.

[GENERAL] Will your project’s output/s be fully open source?

Yes

[GENERAL] If NO, please describe which outputs are not going to be open source. If YES, please write “Project will be fully open source.”

Project will be fully open source

[METADATA] Category of proposal

Identity Solutions

[METADATA] SDG rating

SDG goals:

Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all

SDG subgoals:

Achieve higher levels of economic productivity through diversification, technological upgrading and innovation, including through a focus on high-value added and labour-intensive sectors

Key Performance Indicator (KPI):

Annual growth rate of real GDP per employed person

[IMPACT] Please describe your proposed solution.

Problem:

• In the most popular professional network - Linkedin, users allow to input anything about their profile. It uses connection and network to do self-verification it.
• Some users will make create fake profile for cheating or scamming.
• Most users will make up their profile more impressive in term of job title, scope or contribution.

Solution:

• This proposal will build upon the UCTalent, Cardano web3 talent platform where users can create profile, refer friend a job to earn referral reward, or find a job which pay through smart contract.
• We will build a tool to allow users to build verifiable talent resumes with Atala PRISM solution. Hiring companies can issue employment credential to talent when they offered a job successfully through UCTalent smart contract. Then users will store those certificates on their wallet. When users connect a wallet with UCTalent, they also are requested to share employment credential if they want to do so. Any matched employment certificates with talent profile, there is verified tick to indicate the signal. When talents use their profile to apply a job or refer a job to their friends, they also have chance to share detail employment credential along with all associated information to related parties (recruiters)
• Develop a governance framework to allow any companies can issue employment credential to any talents they had in the past and they are hiring now, any education organization can issue learning credential through UCTalent platform before using UCTalent's hiring /referral reward smart contract
• Utilize some partners of Atala PRISM to develop KYC functions for UCTalent user and it is a requirement for converting UCTalent loyalty points into UCTalent token in the future.

[IMPACT] How does your proposed solution address the challenge and what benefits will this bring to the Cardano ecosystem?

The benefit of Cardano ecosystem with our proposal is that:

1. Bring more software talents to Cardano ecosystem by introducing referral rewards by smart contract on Cardano which is paid by native assets on Cardano. It also means will bring more users to the Cardano ecosystem
2. Helping Cardano startup connect and hire right talents to build their product/solutions with less cost and shorter time. There are more than thousand developers who has joined the Plutus Pioneer Program. If UCTalent is successful introduced hiring smart contract, so they can contribute more projects to help startup in Cardano succeed and in turn Cardano ecosystem succeed too.
3. Increased Adoption: To build a successful web3, a startup need to build a website firstly, not just blockchain or smart contract part in web3. UCTalent can make startup to adopt Cardano more to take advantage of Security, Decentralization, Transparency and Community because they are less worry about to blockchain/smart contract talent resource which they can easy to find on UCTalent as long as their project and idea are good enough.
4. Community Growth: Our project will engage a mostly with startup founders, recruiters and developers. So that we can strengthen and grow this kind of community, which is very important for Cardano ecosystem to grow.
5. Real-World Use Case: Our project will provide a real-world use case about recruitment to Cardano. This section is very big and have a lot problems to solve. UCTalent also aim to become the first decentralized talent social network on Cardano, on blockchain in gerneral.

[IMPACT] How do you intend to measure the success of your project?

Number of verifiable resumes on UCTalent.io

Number of KYC accounts on UCTalent.io

Number of issuers who have issued at least one employment credential

Number of education organization who have issued at least one training credential

[IMPACT] Please describe your plans to share the outputs and results of your project?

Our plan to share the outputs and results of our project as below:

1. Token Distribution: Only 15% of the newly minted tokens is allocated to the dev funds, the majority of UCTalent token will reserve to grow the platform and incentive users/communities (talent, hiring companies, founders and developers communities).
2. Community Updates: We plan to regularly update the Cardano community on our progress towards milestones, insights from our work, and opportunities for community members to get involved through blog, social media, etc.
3. Webinars and Workshops: We will host webinars and workshops to share our knowledge and experiences with the broader community so that communities can learn from our experience to build web3 platform on Cardano in real time.
4. Partnerships: We will actively seek partnerships with other Cardano startups, and recruitment solutions to onboarding them into UCTalent and help them succeed with us.
5. Open Source Contributions: We plan to make our code and technical documentation available as open-source resources. This will allow other developers to learn from our work, contribute to our project, and potentially build upon our solution.

[CAPABILITY/ FEASIBILITY] What is your capability to deliver your project with high levels of trust and accountability?

Commitment: Our project team has almost completed to develop and release step 1 in our go to market strategy: Bootstrap talent supply by providing a web2 job board for web3 jobs with a loyalty program to attract blockchain/crypto/web3 or software talents. Platform will pre-define metadata for job and talent profile and capture as much correct as possible to have high-quality data of talent profile and job description to use as input data for later functions.

Check our https://app.uctalent.io/jobs and https://www.uctalent.io/

The team: We are an enthusiastic team about web3 with different roles and backgrounds:

Design UIUX, Marketing, Product and Software development. We has experienced to build few startups in platform business: classified C2C marketplace, ride-hailing platform.

• Key members:
• Duong Nguyen(Django): 10+ years in data analytics, product management and tech startup experience (top 1st classified site, 2nd ride-hailing app, 3rd ecommerce delivery app in Vietnam ), will take these roles in the team: Product, Strategy, HR, Finance & Overall. (Profile)
• Hieu Tran: 11+ years in Software development and tech team building, will take these roles in the team: Technology, Delivery, Agile Development. (Profile)

Enthusiastic with Cardano technology and mission: We have interested in Cardano in long time, in which our key member, Duong (Django) is taking Cardano Solutions Architect - EMURGO Academy batch 81, and is a tala PRISM Pioneer to learn to build the real application on Cardano. We believe it is time to start building some complicated and real application Cardano.

Whole team (11 people) works and commits together as the founding team members, where no one receives any salary yet. The team will contribute and share the 15% newly minted token based on each member's effort and responsibility. Check the introduction deck

[CAPABILITY/ FEASIBILITY] What are the main goals for the project and how will you validate if your approach is feasible?

UCTalent mission: Unchain and remove any constraint and limit for global talents to reach the best opportunity to grow, build and own a better world.

The project (proposal) goal: build the verifiable resume tool for UCTalent, and make the platform more trust and more reliable talent ecosystem

[CAPABILITY/ FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed breakdown of your project’s milestones and each of the main tasks or activities to reach the milestone plus the expected timeline for the delivery.

Milestone 1: release a tool to allow users to build verifiable talent resumes with Atala PRISM solution.

Milestone 2: release a governance framework to allow any companies can issue employment credential to any talents they had in the past and they are hiring now, any education organization can issue learning credential through UCTalent platform before using UCTalent's hiring /referral reward smart contract

Milestone 3: release KYC functions for UCTalent user with some partners of Atala PRISM

[CAPABILITY/ FEASIBILITY] Please describe the deliverables, outputs and intended outcomes of each milestone.

Milestone 1: open source and the verifiable talent resumes tool on production

Milestone 2: A document of governance framework, functions to allow any companies to issue employment credential to any talents on UCTalent

Milestone 3: Open source and KYC functions for UCTalent user with some partners of Atala PRISM on production

[RESOURCES & VALUE FOR MONEY] Please provide a detailed budget breakdown of the proposed work and resources.

Milestone 1: Design and Development of the Platform (30k ADA)

• User requirements definition
• User interface and experience design
• Platform development
• Integration with Atala PRISM and the Cardano blockchain

Milestone 2: Governance Framework Development (40k ADA)

• Develop a governance framework for the platform
• Define roles and responsibilities of stakeholders
• Establish decision-making processes and protocols
• Implement mechanisms for transparency and accountability

Milestone 3: KYC with Atala PRISM (30k ADA)

• User interface and experience design
• Integration development
• Marketing and promotional activities
• Gathering of user feedback

[RESOURCES & VALUE FOR MONEY] How does the cost of the project represent value for money for the Cardano ecosystem?

It has the potential to dramatically increase the recognition and adoption of Cardano to many software engineers and startups in South East Asia. In addition, the creation of a new business model is expected to bring its benefits on a global scale and become the first and competitive social network on Cardano.

[IMPORTANT NOTE] The Applicant agreed to Fund10 rules and also that data in the Submission Form and other data provided by the project team during the course of the project will be publicly available.

I Accept