JobFair platform on Cardano

[IMPACT]

We will create a platform that connects employers and talented freelancers from all over the world, regardless of country or race, you can imagine likely to upwork.com platform. To make it easier to visualize, I have drawn the model below.

The website frontend will be served via decentralized file storage using IPFS (for more information about IPFS, click here)

We use languages Marlowe, Plutus to build backend logic functions (Create, Edit, Search, Invoice, Apply...) of the website to create smart-contracts, all backend logics function are running entirely on Cardano blockchain. Thanks to those great technologies, the platform can run with 0% service fees sustainably. And will never take a cut from transactions between freelancers and employers.

The website will connect to the Freelancer wallet and the employer's wallet through the Yoroi Wallet Extension to create profile information and add personal skills. Through profile and search commands, the system will find related jobs posted from employers and connect them through chatbox/email.

After the two sides shake hands with each other. Freelancer will send an invoice to the employer and wait to receive the ADA from the employer and send it to his wallet and the two parties will send feedback to each other.

Before talking about the solution, let's talk about the problem first, in the explosive information technology era from the beginning of the 21st century until now. Jobs in the information technology industry are never out of hot, job search websites sprang up a lot to try to exploit the full potential of people in all fields, all levels. Most of the traditional job search sites today are based on the following mechanism: Hirer - Broker - Employee. The broker in the middle receives a commission (possibly from both sides). That generally increases operating costs and discourages stakeholders.

To solve this problem, we will create a platform to connect employers and talent with 0% service fees sustainably. Built entirely on Cardano blockchain and using only cryptocurrency for payments.

Besides that, this proposed solution is a potential solution using the power of smart contracts of Cardano, bringing Cardano blockchain closer and more valuable to everybody.

A project always comes with potential challenges and risks

• There are many competitors in the market, many popular platforms have been built for a long time and have many user sets. So, we will focus on blockchain communities first

• Occurrence of personal conflicts of interest (for example, not paying or intentionally sabotaging by sending false feedback to cause controversy)

[FEASIBILITY]

To complete the project we set out the following Milestones:

• Milestone 1: 3 months after proposal is funded (release demo)
• Building test net, development environment
• Building infrastructure, CI/CD.
• Build website, issue, status tracker
• Building demo
• Milestone 2: 5 months after proposal is funded (closed beta)
• Run beta production
• Run marketing on (Facebook, Google, TikTok, ...) to advertise the platform, entice users, get more adoption.
• Get feedback from the community (users, recruiters, developers, ...)
• Improve UI/UX
• Improve CI/CD
• Build mechanisms for monitoring, alerts, etc., and resolve
• Benchmark system
• Optimize infrastructure configuration
• Enhance infrastructure more Reliability and Resiliency.
• Milestone 3: 7 months after proposal is funded (public beta2)
• Continue to run marketing campaigns on (Facebook, Google, TikTok, ...) to advertise the platform, entice users, get more and more adoption.
• Issue warnings and advice from the system to employers or freelancers who behave badly, against community standards.
• Upgrade the rating mechanism (like other brokerage platforms (Uber, Grab, Airbnb, …), whoever has a high rating will be prioritized by the system to display and win more attention).
• Milestone 4: 8 month after proposal is funded(Release)
• Official release widely spread the platform adoption on social networks

Cost all during 8-month the project, but actually, all of the engineers will work with hour-rate per day, so the cost had been deducted one-third (deduct 2,6months) (compare in monthly)

• Human resources (budget during the project)
• 2 Sr. Fullstack backend engineers: 2,5k x 5,4months x 2 = 27k USD
• 1 Sr. Frontend engineer: 2k x 5,4months x 1 = 10,8k USD
• 1 DevOps/SRE engineer: 2,5k x 5,4months x 1 = 13,5k USD
• 1 Product manager & Project manager: 2k USD during projects
• 2 Marketing specialists: 3k USD during projects
• Personnel re-employment costs, personnel risk prevention: 2k USD
• Marketing/Research campaign: 6k USD
• Blockchain Dev Engineer salary: 6K USD
• Servers:
• Product development environment (dev, tools, server, build,…): 6k USD
• Domain/maintain fee: 2k USD
• Total = 78,3k USD

• To Nguyen Duy Tan is a technical lead engineer in this project, with extensive experience in DevOps/SRE and recruiting for engineer positions, responsible for the entire technical and system design part of the project.
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/tantnd/
• Nguyen Tuan Anh is a Sr. Fullstack Software Engineer, he has worked in many corporations and is involved in developing many products to serve hundreds of thousands of users. He also has a lot of experience in blockchain with his own freelance work and small projects
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/anh-nguyen-082a94129/
• Nguyen Vu Nhan is also a Sr. Fullstack Software Engineer, has many years of experience working at companies related to the financial sector (such as NAB), and is on the core product development team.
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/nhan-nguyen-67435a129/
• Dao Thu Nga has a wide range of competencies in marketing and management positions. Participate in the development of the company's core products and bring a lot of value at the companies she works for
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/dao-thu-nga-a106b9163/
• Nguyen Anh Tien and Nguyen Van Hieu: Tien will take on the role of the project manager of the project and Hieu will take on the role of product manager of the project and the two key contributors will also take on the role of advisor to plan and implement the project.
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/tienna/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/nguyen-van-hieu-b4410121b/

[AUDITABILITY]

• Milestone 1- 3 months after proposal is funded:
• Release demo, work with the 0% service fee strategy
• Milestone 2- 5 months after proposal is funded:
• Release production v1 version
• Rekease Automating development flows (CI/CD, Monitoring, IaaS, ...)
• Milestone 3- 7 months after proposal is funded:
• Release production v2 version
• System stress benchmark results report
• Release dashboard of Number of weekly/monthly users, number of transactions
• Milestone 4- 8 months after proposal is funded:
• Release the No-Cut-Fee-Work-Platform sustainably run entirely on Cardano blockchain for freelancers all over the world.

Thousand people use the platform to find jobs, many employers use the platform to search for talents. Bringing to the community a platform running on Cardano that brings sustainable value.

No previously funded project that this one tail. This is a new project