Skillsme
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| ISIN | 🆔 |
|---|---|
| Industry | Software Company |
| Founded 📆 | 2020 |
| Founders 👔 | Zifeng Liang Bernard Leong Terry Jiang |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | Auckland, New Zealand |
Area served 🗺️ | Worldwide |
| Products 📟 | Skillsme for Business Skillsme Ratings |
| Members | |
Number of employees | |
| 🌐 Website | www.myskillsme.com |
| 📇 Address | |
| 📞 telephone | |
Skillsme have created an online platform designed to help developers support their coding skills by completing practical projects and receiving endorsements from industry leaders from around the world. Skillsme also serves as a talent pool for recruiters and companies making an easy, more effective alternative to sifting through CVs.[1] Since its founding in February 2020, Skillsme has grown to over 10,000 users in over 50 countries [2]
History[edit]
Early years[edit]
Skillsme was founded in early 2020 when University of Auckland student Zifeng Liang, Terry Jiang, and AUT Business alumnus Bernard Leong learned the difficulties in hiring developers and that a staggering 94% of graduate developers struggled to get hired in the tech industry because they lacked practical experience that companies are looking for.[3]. To solve this problem, Skillsme has developed a way for developers to complete a Hackathon style project to support their skills and experience.
Products and services[edit]
Skillsme for developers[edit]
Coding projects[edit]
All new developers to Skillsme is given a project to complete within 48 hours. The project scenario is custom-made to suit the coding languages and skills you claim to know.[4]. Skillsme supports over 20 coding languages and framework for developers to select to complete their portfolio.[5].
Social proof and community[edit]
Social Proof is a concept developed by Skillsme with the idea of communities and experts giving developers validation based on looking and testing their projects. Once the project is completed, that developer will receive a Skillsme rating from the community and experts. This Skillsme rating is then made visible to employers on the platform. Beyond this, the users profile is completely anonymous[4]. Apart from this, normal users are also allow to rate and comment on projects thus creating a community.
Skillsme for business[edit]
Skillsme for business is a platform that allows companies to search for on-demand talents that has been verified by the industry. The platform also allows you to manage potential candidates and make contact with them[6].
Pre-validated talents[edit]
Skillsme on-boarding process will gather information and data about your business and once you are ready to hire, Skillsme will provide you with a few candidates using information you provided in the on-boarding process and based on your specific requirement (Intermediate developer, Full Stack). The candidates Skillsme will provide will be validated coders/ developers that has made the claim similar to your requirements. You can benchmark those coders/ Developers with other candidates that has made similar claims[7].
Talent pool[edit]
Skillsme has a talent pool of over 10,000 registered users from over 50 countries[8].
Seek talents[edit]
Skillsme open talent pool is a searchable database with thousands of candidate profiles and ratings. you can filter by skill, location, previous employment, experience and more to uncover qualified candidates[9].
Skillsme judges[edit]
Industry experts[edit]
Skillsme Judges are the top 5% of coders working in the industry. They must meet strict criteria’s and undertake an interview process before becoming a Skillsme Judge. Most of our judges have at least 5 years working experience for well known tech firms including Tesla, Facebook, Google and many more[10]. The core component of our platform is the “Judges” we have on Skillsme. Judges are scored by replacing our Contribution Points system with Reputation Points system. Skillsme have also created a leader board so our Judges can gauge how they are doing against other Judges[11].
Skillsme ratings[edit]
Potential candidates will complete a portfolio / project on our platform with an open question and case studies given by Skillsme. Case studies and question is unique to the coding languages and what the coders is claimed to be good at. For example, if a coder claim to be a Senior Full Stack developer in ReactJS, with C# backend knowledge, our judges would view the portfolios/ project and provide a rating base on the candidates claim[12].
Self-taught coders[edit]
Self Taught coders is a meetup event founded by Skillsme in December 2020. We host events and coding workshops for any self taught coders who want to network, improve their skills and learn new stuff. We have have a different theme and topic each month which will be hosted by subject matter expert of the given topic[13]
Awards and recognition[edit]
2020 ON: Pitch, a Gen Z start-up ventures competition, has provided student start-ups with the ultimate tools to take their businesses to the next level.[1]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 CIE, AU. "Coder recruitment revolutionaries win venture pitch competition". Retrieved 22 January 2021.
- ↑ Skillsme, Website. [www.myskillsme.com "Skillsme"] Check
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|title=(help) - ↑ 4.0 4.1 Kea. "Skillsme – revolutionising the recruitment process for developers". Retrieved 22 January 2021.
- ↑ Leong, Bernard. "November update: New possibilities, in all new ways. Only with Skillsme". Retrieved 22 January 2021.
- ↑ Skillsme, Website. "Skillsme for Business". Retrieved 22 January 2021.
- ↑ Skillsme. "FAQ". Retrieved 22 January 2021.
- ↑ Skillsme. "Skillme". Retrieved 22 January 2021.
- ↑ Skillsme, Website. "Search for the talent you need". Retrieved 22 January 2021.
- ↑ Skillsme. [www.myskillsme.com "Judges"] Check
|url=value (help). Retrieved 22 January 2021. - ↑ Skillsme, Website. "Skillsme". Retrieved 22 January 2021.
- ↑ [www.myskillsme.com "How do Ratings Work"] Check
|url=value (help). Retrieved 22 January 2021.|Authors list=missing|1=(help) - ↑ Meetup. "Self Taught coder meetup". Retrieved 22 January 2021.
External links[edit]
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