Quareer

💡 Inspiration

Studies say that more than half of the workers of marginalized gender have experienced unfair treatment at work at some point in their lives. So we want to provide a platform for people of marginalized gender to help each other by not only sharing their experience at their workplace but also posting jobs at the companies they think are work-friendly. We also wanted to provide a full-fledged review of the company to help workers of marginalized gender to get a better understanding of their work place before they take up their jobs.

💻 What it does

• Post jobs from the company that workers of marginalized gender think are work-friendly
• Accept jobs from the company that workers of marginalized gender think are work-friendly
• Some people might feel insecure about their information being shared especially when it concerns a person of marginalized gender. A decentralized storage system for user data for security purposes was implemented using Blockchain
• Get personalized recommendations based on the user's top skills
• View similar jobs based on the job that is currently being viewed
• Post reviews about the company that you worked at or are currently working in
• Get a full-fledged analyzed review of the company before you apply
• Chatroom to chat with other people of marginalized gender

⚙️ How we built it

• Frontend: React JS
• Backend: Solidity
• Blockchain: Azure Blockchain Service
• Machine Learning: Python

☁️ Best Use of Microsoft Cloud for Your Community

To run blockchain networks, we use Azure Blockchain Service. Azure Blockchain solution is a fully managed solution for creating and managing blockchain networks. It offers a unified administration interface for both consortium and public blockchain networks. We are utilizing Azure Blockchain Service because it is based on the open-source Hyperledger Fabric and Ethereum protocols, both of which are extremely beneficial to our project.

🧠 Challenges we ran into

• Working on the blockchain was a bit tough.
• Using Azure Blockchain Service for the first time.
• Data collection and data cleaning for the recommendation systems that were built was very difficult.

🏅 Accomplishments that we're proud of

• Built a decentralized storage system for user data for security purposes since some people might feel insecure about their information being shared especially when it concerns a person of marginalized gender.
• Users can post jobs from the company that workers of marginalized gender think are work-friendly
• Users can accept jobs from the company that workers of marginalized gender think are work-friendly
• Built a personalized recommendation to suggest jobs based on the user's top skills
• Users can view similar jobs based on the job that is currently being viewed
• Users can post reviews about the company that they worked at or are currently working in
• We provide a full-fledged analyzed review of the company that users can refer to before they apply
• A Chatroom to chat with other people.

📖 What we learned

• Building a Dapp using Azure Blockchain Service.
• Difficulties faced by workers of marginalized genders at their workplaces.
• How Google calculates star ratings of reviews and also successfully implemented the same.

🚀 What's next for Quaree

• Add more features to the job filter page.
• Upgrade to a more accurate recommendation systems.

Built With

• azure
• blockchain
• cosine-similarity
• natural-language-processing
• pandas
• react.js