LinKidney
LinKidney is an employment platform that offers great convenience for employers to hire kidney patients and provides employers access to detailed information about kidney patients.
Description
Background
The problem statement that we choose is “How can we get employers to empathize, understand, and hire kidney patients who have limited education levels and mobility due to their health conditions and treatment schedule?”
To tackle this problem, our group decided to create LinKidney, an employment platform that aims to increase the employment rate among kidney patients.
LinKidney allows kidney patients to seek jobs and recognize in-demand skills that raise their competitiveness. Consequently, employers can gain more understanding in kidney patients, while kidney patients have higher chances to be employed.
The target users of LinKidney are employers from small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) and kidney patients. We insist on targeting mainly SME employers because we believe creating such a relationship between SME employers and kidney patients is a win-win strategy.
Win-win Strategy
We can get employers to empathize, understand and hire kidney patients only if we understand their demands.
What are the needs, or problems that current SMEs are facing?
Through research, we concluded that limited workforce and resources are the predicaments that haunt current SMEs. According to a news article published on The Straits Time in August 2022, 58% of SMEs in Singapore stated their existing cash flow can only sustain them for less than six months. Concurrently, Singapore Business Federation’s latest National Business Survey (2022/2023) asserted that almost all businesses reported facing manpower issues.
Therefore, we believe that the unemployed kidney patients could become one of the manpower sources for the SMEs.
According to an article from MyCareersFuture, employers can receive an Senior Employment Credit (SEC) to offset up to 16% of the wages of employees who have disabilities, indicating a reduction on company expenses.
Besides, employers can apply training grants when they enroll their employees in Workfare Training Schemes, which returns them with improved employees.
Moreover, employers should not be worried about the performance of kidney patients as employers can apply for grants and employment services to train and integrate the patients under the Open Door Programme (ODP).
Hence, employers, particularly employers from SMEs who do not possess much funds for hiring proficient employees and do not require high-level-educated employees can be benefited by hiring kidney patients who have limited education level. Simultaneously, kidney patients can grab the opportunity to contribute to the enterprises and earn some money.
Between both stakeholders, stands our platform, LinKidney which can convey and accomplish the win-win strategy.
What we learned
We've gained more knowledge about the kidney patients and the problems that they are facing. Besides, we also learned how to make web development and try coding it out using React.
How we build our project
First and foremost, we come up with several ideas to tackle the problem statement. We search for information about kidney patients and the problems faced by SMEs and finally decided to make an employment platform. We then try designing the webpage using Wix. Then, we use React to code out the website.
We used React router to manage the routes and Bootstrap for basic styling.
Challenges we face
Due to insufficient experience and time, we face challenges when creating the website using React. As full-time students, we had to work on our assignments first before working on this project.
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