Skillex2 : professional skills and experience exchange

Professional skills, experience and knowledge exchange.

Finding, Connecting, and enhancing skills. 

Sub-Saharan Africa which is the home to 13% of the world’s working age population exhibits a high-skilled employment share of just 6%, a contrast to the global average of 24%. There is also a mismatch between the number of educated young people seeking jobs and availability of the formal high-quality jobs,plus the added constraint of young people being inadequately prepared to such roles. However, there is a fairly large STEM and ICT pool.

     Encouraging critical thinking, creativity and emotional intelligence as well as accelerating acquisition of digital and STEM skills will help match the way the people will work and collaborate in the fourth industrial Revolution.       (world economic forum 2017)

   Solely relying on education curriculum to acquire these skills can be time consuming and demanding. Many schools still don't provide much information about the STEM fields and follow the general curriculum, taking away the advantage of an early start.  As for college students, chances for internships and professional training are very limited. This lack of career guidance and information result in under-prepared work force with little confidence.   

   Our solution is a web based platform that assists and encourages professional exchange of on demand skills between different communities, ages and backgrounds. It started as an idea for accelerating language learning process through guided language exchange methods that strengths commitment, interaction and output from both parties. From experiences, challenges, and endeavors, the need for a platform where people can acquire skills, commit, connect, exchange, enjoy, mentor and achieve much more...  surfaced; and skillex2 was born.

-- In Skillex2 users can:

be Grouped based on the skills they want to learn and work on big projects guided by another experienced user.

Be matched based on skills they want to exchange, and guided through it efficiently. 

Get to know all what they need about a field, major or a career path and get ahead start and guidance along the way.

Help each other by teaching what they are good at to those who need it.

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Teaching, mentoring, learning from the experienced, enrolling in team projects, and early exposure to career guidance; the smart matching, grouping and continuous learning suggestions will take all the participants to the next level, through " tunnels" and "bridges" each provides a well-tailored experience. 

 Upon joining the platform, based on different criteria each user will be given a certain amount of points. These are the points they will use for different services.  After each service users must give from these points a certain amount that lies in a specific range. These will be used as an evaluation of the overall experience. They earn points from each other based on their commitment, feedback, level of skill they acquired... etc.  

Top users will be chosen periodically, and can gain money or other services in exchange of their points.

Our solution will give people the push they need to adapt. We want to encourage people to always seek self improvement on their own and from each other.

Our solution looks into the full picture;  experience and knowledge harnessed over years in one place can save time, reduce mistakes and help create new opportunities elsewhere. 

Not everyone can teach, but everyone has something to give, and we will guide and support those who want to try. We believe in the power of human interaction, consulting, and coaching that no technology can replace, but can only empower. We employ methods that can guarantee commitment and maximum output from all parties. 

We strongly believe that connectivity is one of the greatest outcomes of the current technology revolution, and we want to make the most of it.  We are aiming toward bridging the gaps between communities and ages to achieve the maximum growth possible.    

Skillex2 matches skillsets, connect them, provide smart guidance and suggestions and enhances the overall experience. It also has a unique reward system to encourage users in addition to other features.

• Attract more team members.
• Continue developing the platform and launch it by the third quarter of 2019, testing it on a diverse group of users, monitoring its impact and receive users feedback to farther improve and optimize it.
• Collect data from university students.

• Cooperate with researchers in the field of Education. 

• Partnership with local and international job matching platforms.
• Attract local and global firms employers and employee.
• Reach out to users from over +25 universities in Africa. 
• Work on the development of a mobile application for skillex2.
• Cooperate with existing local and global educational platforms.
• Cooperate with local educational organizations.  
• Establish a skillex2 internship simulation center. 

In its first phases we expect skillex2 to serve hundreds of university students, employees and young adults across the region. They will amplify their existing skills, learn new ones, and gain communication skills. They will also  raise their confidence in their skills and knowledge, gain work related experience,and get a head start. They will gain the skills they need to be qualified.

Those skills that some can't easily obtain or develop due to the various challenges they face in their regions. In its next phases we expect to reach thousands of active users (+10,000). 

Electrical engineering majors, passionate about improving learning processes and opportunities. open to the world cultures and diversity and possessing  good communication skills.  Currently aiming to recruit more skillful diverse members from other regions in Africa.

Users will be charged with registration fee.  They will receive a certain amount of points based on their selected category. These points will be exchanged between the users and circulating the website. This will help in monitoring users activities and the quality of services they are receiving from each other. 

we are considering the development of a suitable payment methods for users in different regions due to their different circumstances.

We believe  that being a part of solve 's community will help us achieve in one year what would have taken more. There is so much we can learn from the passionate solvers with whom we share the same vision. We believe that solve knows the right ways that can help this solution impact as many lives as possible.

The support and exposure Solve provides will prove to be a huge asset to this project and its ever growing team.  We believe our solution has the potential to make an impact capable of changing the future of many lives.     

• Attracting capable team members who share the same vision and ambition.
• Gaining professional support and guidance.
• The lack of experience and consult.

 Solve seeing the potential in this solution will give us the exposure we need to break through. The support and experience we will gain from other solvers and members of solve community will save valuable time and effort needed to deliver a solution we are in a need for.