WESpace | Work and Education Space for All

WESpace, a dynamic platform for career exploration and development with a combination of AI analytic and human touch.

“Lost your dream, stuck at your unproductive work routine, and regret your life,” millions of world population share this experience once in their lifetime.

To stop these, WESpace: a dynamic web-application with the combination of AI analytic and human touch will provide support regarding career exploration and development so that everyone can realize their dreams, having a decent job and leading a meaningful life.

Our team was prompted to initiate this project as we see long-standing problems and discrepancies in Thailand’s education-and-employment ecosystem. Many Thai people suffer from depression due to the feeling of self-unworthiness and insecurity caused by academic pressure from all dimensions: society, family, peer, or themselves. In addition, one-third of Thai graduates are still unemployed because they lack specific skill set for job requirement, information to support their career decision, and most importantly their passion and clear life goal.

One of the most challenging fundamental problem is the attitude instilled by society not only in Thailand, but also in other countries such as Singapore, India, Brazil, New Zealand and China. People all over the world have been pushed to study according to social norms without realizing their own individual interest and capability.

So, how can we not only help them determine their career path, but also conciliate all parts of the communities to support a competency-based personalized education?

In a nutshell, WESpace offers four major functions called ‘4Es’: Evaluation, Exploration, Experience, and Employment.

For ‘Evaluation(E1)’, our technology assesses user’s current proficiency level of competencies and their personal interest by applying a research-based methodology in psychometric assessment. This will enable both users and academic institutions to design a more personalized learning pathway corresponding to the result of student’s assessments for a more demand-driven educational system.

Then, users can ‘Explore(E2)’ our emerging career database, containing specific job descriptions, knowledge and skill requirements, characteristics, reward, social impact, tools, and working context. The system can even suggest top-three most promising career paths for each user using AI technology based on user’s cumulative performance, lifestyles, and competency result.

Once users are able to decide their desired career path, WESpace will suggest suitable the right ‘Experience(E3)’ covering both academic and non-academic activities from our partners, so that they can improve their skill sets and track their development progress relative to their goals.

Finally, it will lead to the last step ‘Employ(E4)’, in which users can create their own profile based on the earlier ‘E’ steps. Equipped with company informations such as culture and review, users can connect with potential employers.

Combining all 4Es together, all can shift their focus from traditional knowledge-based to more personalized competency-based learning that emphasizes on performance, resonating with the pace of change in global and technological revolution.

Ultimately, we determine to scale-up our social impact to the public globally, promoting the lifelong learning for all ages and ethics and expand our partnership to more organizations and companies of wide-ranged industries to establish a sustainable education-and-employment ecosystem.

Unlike other traditional academic and career advisory platforms which mainly provide job-matching service, WESpace creates a personalized ecosystem to guide users in knowing their career goal, developing their competencies, and engaging all stakeholders to ensure a continuous development progress and career opportunities.

Once the user has registered, WESpace will issue a virtual passport with block-chain verification to keep track of learning progress no matter where and when the users gain experiences.

Applying psychometric with AI capacity also enable WESpace to assess users' competencies and suggest the right career and experiences for each users based on our dynamic algorithm.

Technology plays an important role in WESpace as we adopt blockchain and machine learning (AI) to analyze and verify information. With our customized data collection and analytic, all data are well-organized and connected.

AI saves us time and cost in processing huge data from users for best results of suitable careers. It also verifies and classifies information from our partners e.g. newly added job recruitment or workshops can be processed promptly.

WESpace will be also implemented with our AI model to leverage the Speech-to-text function so the analysis of our daily life conversation can be conducted.

We plan to have grand debut in Thailand Hands-up Network and MOU signing ceremony and target to set up  partnerships with 200 schools where 200,000 students will be our active users, accessible to our exclusive 100 activities.

Having WESpace integrated deeply in our partners’ systems, we hope to see the platform operating at its fullest functions with greater impact on the national level by expanding the market coverage to users, events, and employee. We would establish connections with more organizations and Thailand’s international corporations as the first step to expand our platform regionally and globally.

We trust WESpace is a disruptive tool that would help massive people and make immense impact on Thailand’s education and entire workforce system: attitude toward education,academic curriculum, and company recruitment system. WESpace aims to transform education from knowledge-based to a competency-based personalized.

Within the next three years, we aim to be Thailand’s number one career platform, well recognized with strong strategic partnerships. We would move up to an international portal  in Asian countries with high potential. With supports from all dimensions of the society benefited from the platform, WESpace would be undoubtedly continuing to grow and strengthen.

We categorize our customers into two groups: academic partner and business partner. For academic partner, we provide student tracking and report, curriculum analysis, skill and competency matching between courses and requirements for each career. While we subdivide business partner into smaller groups:

• Organization related to training, education or student development: WESpace will be a connecting point between users and available verified activities to boost certain skills or competencies required for individual need. 
• Other organizations seeking employee: WESpace renders recruitment service with detailed relevant data of a candidate. It will shorten resume screening process and support early company’s engagement with students.

As we are prototyping our MVP, WESpace has reached to 3,000 students and got 78% feedback as highly satisfied. In addition, our school partners in Thailand Education Partnership has been introducing WESpace to more than 200 schools, reaching over 100,000 students nation-wide.

In this August, we are invited to showcase our MVP in the Social Enterprise Scale-up Impact Expo by Thammasat University; and in September, we will debut our platform in Thai Good Society Expo to get user feedback and seek more partnership with both academic and private sectors.

We also work closely with government to scale-up impact to everyone.

By the year’s end, we expect the total 100,000 students in our partnered university and the expansion further to other institutions. In the first phase, approximately 200,000 students in higher education across the nation are expected to use our platform for self-assessment and database to support their decision .

The next phase which should be within the next three years includes the broadening of our platform to reach students in all academic levels, parents, and workers to help them prepare and plan their further education and career. We trust users will find our platform helpful and convenient.

With hands-on HR consulting experiences in developing career management system and competency model, the team leader is able to guide the team efficiently using practical skills from direct  experience.

Furthermore, the team is composed of specialists in various fields: finance, humanity, education, psychology, engineering, etc. The mix-and-match skills of the members functions well as a whole.

Particularly, we have members with strong academic background specialized in programming, education and psychology which are key areas in developing the platform.

Importantly, everyone is energized and motivated by high ambition to be part of a change in education and hiring system.

We’re inspired to promote social equality by means of  improving education system and circulating informations about jobs and self-development, reachable to all students. Even though, users are granted with free access anywhere and anytime, we also take sustainable profitability to account.

Our revenue model is to partner with all types of organizations i.e. universities or companies and to collect annual fee or charge them for service packages. With the system intriguing and beneficial to the partners, we are certain to stand in the market and contribute to a steady income growth. We will also have advertisement spaces for other organizations with academic courses or training on our platform where we would share mutual benefit as they get to advertise while we have more data and options to enhance user’s skills.

We also has a plan to publicize by publishing research article and arranging PR projects  in Thailand’s top university network and other schools. To keep the users active and maintain their usage frequency, the system itself is not one-time questionnaire since WESpace is more like a companion that will continue to support and accompany users along the journey by recommending development activities or giving advice.

We see excellent chance to be part of inspiring community with full academic and business potential.

Being a member would help us grow and learn from sharing ideas and knowledge with other Solve members. Through Solve, we would be able to establish strong connections with others and together we can make a bigger impact to the world.

Solve also offers us rich resources like funding, mentoring, training, and many mores business opportunities. With help from Solve, we could be accelerated toward the goal of building right education and job opportunities for all.

Key barriers

• Requirement for large amount of data in our database

• Buy-in from parents

With Solve, we will have the opportunity to connect with a wider and distinctive group of people whom we can establish partnership with. By having strong partnership and connection, we will gain more advantage in succeeding negotiation. And, we would also be able to strengthen our specialty by receiving advice and comments from expertise or other Solve members. Having sufficient resources, WESpace could become more competitive in the market and expand to its fullest potential to enhance the education and hiring system.