Aworker – A new decentralized platform for recruitment

Is that Aworker?

Aworker is a blockchain platform for recruitment. Aworker is intended to disrupt the recruitment market, where the volume in 2016 was 429 billion dollars. With the help of WORK tokens and Ethereum blockchain technology, Aworker will help people find better jobs, and companies to choose the most competent employees.

Aworker is made to help:

1. People get jobs faster and with preferred conditions

2. Companies employ the best candidates and reduce costs per hire.

Aworker uses Blockchain technology to make:

1. P2P platform for personnel recruitment. With the power of smart contracts, it is possible to change recruitment rules , when others recommend candidates and all participants from the critical stage receive wages.

2. Reputation system , which will prove specialist qualifications.

WORKING worker coin tokens.

WORK TOKEN related to hiring employees in the company. Companies will have to spend WORK tokens to find and employ an employee. The number of tokens is limited.

The company will accept applications to hire and communicate with candidates. HR managers will be able to create vacancies, use smart contract opportunities, and to examine core information about candidates in the blockchain: what is / is verified skills, competencies, projects completed, etc. Blockchain will provide more reliable information about applicants, who are now lacking in the company .

Problem

There are several main difficulties — at FFI in the recruitment process and looking for work:

1. It is difficult to hire good employees

2. On FFI difficulties in assessing candidates

3. High costs for recruitment

4. Workers have difficulty finding a good job

5. The company uses data about people’s professional skills free of charge

This aworker solution

We create decentralized and reliable solutions for employees and companies based on the Ethereum blockchain with smart contracts. Our solution consists of job market, skill verification and independent reputation rating. Employees get the opportunity to find work and make money on their networks, skills and professional achievements. The company has access to decentralized ratings and verified skills through smart contracts.

Aworker’s goal

1. To create a decentralized global ecosystem for companies and workers, which will help to find the best employees and recommend friends for the right open positions.

2. To create a universal decentralized system of employee valuation and reputation for the whole world.

3. To make a simple and reliable tool to verify reputation for a few clicks.

4. To allow people to make money on their skills to have additional motivation for development («improve professional skills»).

5. To create a decentralized ecosystem that will provide additional employees and motivation for development.

6. To enable an employee to be the best in the professional field.

7. To introduce the benefits of Ethereum smart contracts for the real world.

This Aworker user

There are four types of users on Aworker:

1. Employees – people who work for a company or find work. An employee can respond to vacancies and enter information about skills, competencies or work experience. Every month, an employee can be involved in decentralizing the Aworker Ranking.

2. A worker – the most proactive and qualified user from the application. He has more proven skills and high reputation recommendations from employees. Aworkers can recommend their acquaintances to open vacancies, check employee skills and evaluate prospective rating. Aworker reputation will depend on results.

3. HR Manager – a company representative who can inform you about open vacancies, rating views and employee ratings. The HR Manager will be able to track the Aworker job seekers in the application, communicate with them, have access to rating and verified skills.

4. Employer – front employee supervisor. Someone can get the «manager» status after being confirmed by three employees from the company. The manager will be able to choose for company employees (or other employees), but his / her voice will be the same as any aworker voice. Managers will also have the ability to write reviews about employees.

How it works

The aworker will be able to receive wages for recommendations every time he / she gets acquainted with a company job. The whole process will be open to employees, and he / she will always be able to see the recruitment stage.

In this case, the candidate’s search process becomes P2P, when other network users look for candidates who are eligible for the company and recommend them.

appreciation

The reward between participants from the recruitment process at Aworker is distributed:

50% get the best recommended candidate

20% got the best candidate the company chose

10% received those recommended by people who came for the interview

10% get people who come for interviews

10% gets an Aworker platform

As such, all participants who are the most eligible receive remuneration and aworkers who recommend them.

Special Features

High reputable contractors (more than 30 points) will have access to the individual conditions of employment with the company. In fact, an aworker with a high reputation can help companies find employees remotely.

This company is interested in users like, because they are sure of the quality of their work:

They understand people;

They recommended candidates who had been recruited;

They can analyze and make conclusions about specialists.

The company will be able to work in two directions with known aworkers:

1. To make exclusive vacancies with the best rewards only for aworkers with a high reputation. This is relevant for people who are looking for a more qualified position.

2. To make vacancies with payments for recommendations. When reward is paid not for closed work, but for the recommendation itself. The following compensation fees for recommendations will be less than for closed positions, but prizes will be guaranteed.

Decentralization Skills Verification System

Using Verification Skills, employees will be able to:

· Receive gifts for their proven skills.

· Improve their competence in the eyes of HR managers.

· To use a decentralized Building System Reputation that will confirm one’s real skills on a global scale.

Aworker will make a transparent verification system have credibility among companies. This will be decentralized, universal, transparent, and will list employee skills suitable for work.

What can be verified

An employee can confirm two types of data:

1. a skill that proves the value of an employee and may ultimately be of interest to the company. For example, knowledge of foreign languages, advanced training courses, knowledge of professional tools and programming languages, etc. Skills testing is done using supporting documents (certificates, videos, etc.) and community voices.

2. Work experience and education. An employee’s company is used for work, and projects he / she is used to being involved in are mentioned. This is another chance to receive a prize.

Case: Verification Skills

John added information that he had «English: Upper-Intermediate» skills. He attached a certificate from a British school confirming this. He sends skills to verify and spend WORK tokens. The aworkers community confirmed John’s skills in 14 days. John and aworkers confirmed the skill to get WORK tokens again.

Controversial situation

If there are 2 or more candidates for the same vacancies having the same total FFI coefficient efficiently calculated with assessment results and verified skills, an employee with a strong reputation is preferred. If there are 2 or more candidates for the same vacancy having the same total efficient FFI coefficient and the same level of reputation, employees with better assessment results are preferred. If the total coe FFI coefficient, reputation level, and assessment results are the same, the decision must be made by the sign holder.

Anti-fraud system

We consider the possibility of fraud cases and develop an antifraud system. For security reasons, we cannot disclose all the details of the system, but there are several options to help minimize fraud problems, such as:

1. An employee must show his / her account on social networks and workplaces;

2. Personality of a manager who is authorized to confirm data that will be examined carefully. This person must have three verification from company employees;

3. Integration with decentralized Civic identity verification tools to reduce the risk of dishonest user registration;

4. Users with suspicious social networks and job site pages will be blocked until data is confirmed;

5. Suspicious behavior of each participant (employee or manager) will be monitored by our system.

Technology

Motivation to use Blockchain technology

In determining the non-functional requirements for the Aworker platform, we have concluded, that to achieve the best results the platform must be decentralized, must provide transparency in decision making, it must be stable and secure, extended, measurable and must promote open settings for user motivation.

Blockchain technology can help to implement these basic rules, it is chosen as the default platform for Aworker realization.

This platform must be decentralized.

The network does not have a managing center, all Aworker platform nodes are the same.

Transparency in decision making.

At all times, information about ratings and votes is acceptable, it will help to ensure honesty of decisions taken.

Stable and safe.

This platform must provide stable operation in each time period, it must be resistant to hacker attacks and to ensure safe storage of user data.

Can be extended.

Platform Aworker must provide a set of interfaces for service execution, which uses this platform.

Scalable.

Network productivity does not have to fall, if there is an increase in the number of users and additional resources.

Useful for enthusiasts.

This application’s internal economy allows users to benefit from real and motivating potential new members to join the platform.

Distribution of remuneration to market participants

This smart contract allows people to get prizes for users who actively recommend their friends to open positions, provided that acquaintances accept certain posts or come to interviews.

HR-manager companies create vacancies, send messages to network participants.

2. For each user who wants to recommend a friend (who responds to a message), a unique link is formed upon request.

3. This system identifies users who have been authorized by references who respond to vacancies and subscribe to notifications from changes in user status.

4. When the user’s status changes to “Accepted”, the reward between key participants (receiving the site – with work and people coming to the interview) is automatically distributed, using smart contracts after their request.

Confirm employee skills

This smart contract provides transparent procedures to demonstrate their ability for each employee. Employee skills that are considered confirmed only after a minimum number of people are collected.

The minimum number of people must comply with the following three conditions:

1. Minimum 100 voters;

2. The difference between the majority and minority of people exceeds 20%;

3. The total prizepool given to the winner is a minimum of + 10% for the shares of each majority member.

4. Employees, who want to get public confirmation of skills, begin launching contacts by sending messages about adding new skills by referring to supporting documents (or documents).

5. Service users, who express a desire to check Employee skills (for example, because they have skills like themselves)

Compilation of employees

This smart contract makes it possible to form employee rankings, taking into account the views of aworkers.

· Employees begin launching smart contracts by sending a form indicating that they want to participate in the rating.

· Aworkers, in response to workers who place employee ratings on a 10-point scale. At this stage, all information received is stored in the Mongo DB database.

Stack technology and top-level architecture

This application is built on the basis of the Ethereum platform and the protocol for distributed storage of IPFS files. Data about transactions, made on the platform, are stored on the blockchain.

Based on the registered technology, the implementation of the business-logic layer (domain logic layer) is built: intelligent contract interaction, frontend, file storage management system, etc.

The Aworker platform provides an opportunity for interaction between APIs and resources such as Indeed, Monster, etc. This is necessary to uniquely identify platform users through accounts on professional social networks, in addition to combining existing site capabilities with the Aworker platform.

To realize the above-node platform, it is planned to use the following services and technologies:

· Ethereum – a platform for making decentralized applications, based on blockchain technology. This platform is the possibility of implementing smart contracts on Turing-complete languages. Solidity is typed static. For the Aworker platform, the Ethereum blockchain community will be used.

· IPFS is a protocol for distributed file storage. This system makes it possible to store user documents, which confirm their skills and achievements, not on central services, but in distributed storage.

· The Civic is a platform for verifying the decentralization of users’ personalities on the Internet. This will avoid duplication of invalid accounts in the Aworker platform and accounts created to implement fraud schemes.

· Solidity is a high-level language for writing smart contracts and executing them on Ethereum virtual machines. All contracts from the Aworker platform will be carried out with assistance from the Solidity language.

· FFL e Tru is a framework for developing and testing smart contracts.

· NodeJS is an event-oriented programming language intended to write backend.

· Web3js – is an API for working with blockchain-Ethereum networks.

Roadmap

Stage 1: Aworker Alpha. Release of private cabinet users

Stage 2: Develop a personal account for the company and Job Marketplace

Stage 3: Integration into blockchain and audit security, Verification Skills

Stage 4: Development of blockchain-based Ethereum Ranking

Stage 5: Development of the company’s advertising cabinet

Stage 6: Enterprise application development

Stage 7: Development of the Aworker API and mobile application

Stage 8: Development of a recommendation system

Market Analysis and Business Model Awareness

In 2016 the number of people working in the world was 3.26 billion according to a report from the International Labor Organization (ILO).

In 2017 LinkedIn is claimed to have around 467 million registered users. LinkedIn users are potential Aworker users. The market volume of the FFI market according to Industry Analyst Analysts is $ 429 billion. The average cost of replacing one specialist in the United States is around $ 8,000.