Marginalized demographic groups face discrimination in the labor market, limiting job opportunities and further isolating them from society. Intrare, a social startup based in Mexico City, Mexico strives to empower vulnerable groups by connecting them with equitable employment opportunities. The goal of this Major Qualifying Project was to enhance Intrare’s job matching algorithm with a soft skills assessment and accompanying interface. Following the engineering design process, our project defined requirements, selected relevant soft skills, developed an online questionnaire, and conducted user testing to refine the interface and assessment. The soft skills assessment is anticipated to provide a well-rounded view of candidates. This will strengthen Intrare’s existing job matching algorithm to provide more accurate and sustainable job matches, allowing the users to feel confident in their abilities. The team recommends administering focus groups and monitoring trends in user responses to the questionnaire then adapting accordingly.

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Creator

• Willoughby, Nolan
• Erwin, Ben
• Daraskevich, Sasha
• Milch, Mikaela

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 118894
• E-project-031824-150113

Mot-clé

• Marginalized Groups
• Soft Skills
• Questionnaire
• Job Matching

Advisor

• Reichman, Daniel
• Vasconcellos, Marcela
• Trapp, Andrew C

Year

• 2024

Sponsor

• Intrare

Date created

• 2024-03-18

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Industrial Engineering
• Computer Science
• Data Science

Source

• E-project-031824-150113

Rights statement

• In Copyright