Storiply

In a dynamic world, where digital media gives life to written word, online recruitment must change. Stories matter, Storiply takes the data of one’s life to weave a powerful story, creating a platform that allows one’s experiences to shed light on their skills and talent, through an individualized recruitment space.

1.1  Initiation & Background

As our digital landscape continues to grow, so does the need for companies to employ an effective, engaging online recruitment strategy. Storiply seeks to employ this strategy through the creation of an Online Jobs portal that goes beyond a two-page CV, it allows for an individuals experience to speak volumes, their passion to radiate, and allows job seekers to show employers that they are the right person for the job, in a way befitting the technological advances and millennial culture of our time.

Going beyond recruitment, Storiply seeks to connect likeminded individuals and organizations, and allows organizations to choose from a pool of candidates, whose vision and values align with it’s own. Furthermore, to address the skills shortage and youth unemployment crisis, Storiply will provide under skilled users  access cheap online skills development courses, CV development tools and volunteer for skills programs with partner organisations.

2  Objectives and Scope
2.1  Objectives
2.1.1  Project Objectives:

• Create a 21st century online jobs portal that meets the needs of both job seekers and companies/organisations
• Provide a platform for young people to cheaply and easily access skills development resources
• Provide a programme for young people to increase their skills and in turn employability through a Volunteer for Skills Programme

2.2  Outcomes

The broad outcome for Storiply is:

To provide an easily accessible 21st century online jobs portal that provides personal and professional development. Revolutionizing the recruitment space with an wholistic approach, allowing for the alignment of vision and values of the job seeker and organisation.

With South Africa's Youth Unemployment rate at 54%, and worse in other LDC's, innovation is essential. Storiply addresses this by providing a unique e platform that allows young people to access and apply for job opportunities in a way befitting millennial ease and creativity, not only becoming a hub for the 21st century jobs, but through partnership will provide discounted rates to develop their skills online, network and grow with like minded individuals, volunteer to gain skills, be mentored by professionals. Young people will solve youth unemployment, sharing their stories with purpose is the first step.

Solving the youth unemployment crisis  requires action across the public and private sectors to do two key things: create more jobs and give young people the skills and confidence to fill them. Storiply does exactly this, by aligning young people to organisations,connecting organisations with dynamic young people, and providing a platform for skills development growth.The challenge now is to provide young people with the support and the environment they need to turn their ambitions into reality, and storiply rises to this challenge, by creating a youthful platform for young people to search for jobs the way they want.

Provide CV development workshops and resources to youth from previously and currently disadvantaged communities.

Provide an easily accessible and cheap platform to access online skills development courses, providing young people with the opportunity to learn tangible skills, thereby increasing employability.

Creating volunteer for skills program that affords those who have and have not accessed higher education to gain tangible skills and workplace experience so as to increase employability.

Create a wholistic recruitment platform that connects job seekers and  organizations beyond a job, in an effort to increase loyalty, productivity and longevity.

Track amount of workshops held through monthly team reporting - Provide CV development workshops and resources to youth from previously and currently disadvantaged communities.

Upload app on app store and track downoads - Provide an easily accessible and cheap platform to access online skills development courses, providing young people with the opportunity to learn tangible skills, thereby increasing employability.

track amount of organisations signed up as volunteer for skills partners through monthly team reporting - Creating volunteer for skills program that affords those who have and have not accessed higher education to gain tangible skills and workplace experience so as to increase employability.

Storiply  is an easily accessible 21st century online jobs portal that provides personal and professional development. Revolutionizing the recruitment space with an wholistic approach, allowing for the alignment of vision and values of the job seeker and organisation

Storiply is all about the real person being an active participant in solving the real problems that challenge them and their communities. The power of their story is key to the formation, success and sustainability of the organisation, in fact it is founded upon these stories.

The solution will be both web and mobile app based, utilizing minimal data (a possible partnership with African network providers). A huge focus will be on the app development, as the amount of mobile phone users in Africa and LDC's are rapidly growing.

Utilizing existing human and technological resources will help sustain the solution until the product is presentable enough to secure funding.

• Finance and budget
• A saturated market

I have served as a Youth Adviser to the United Nations Environment Program, and in doing been inspired by the innovation and creativity of young African's across the continent, whose passion pierces through the socio-economic barriers that seek to hold them back. I also worked as an international cultural representative at the Walt Disney Company  where I learnt about the power of stories, to inspire, to engage, to persuade, and to change the world. Becoming a solver will challenge, inspire and facilitate growth.

TBC

Indeed, Careers24 (online job recruitment portals)