Case Study:

The TechHire Platform for
Opportunity@Work

Skills-validation platform and job marketplace for employers and job seekers

Formed to support the initiative launched by the former President Barack Obama in 2015, Opportunity@Work is a nonprofit social enterprise that is rewiring the labor market. Under the "TechHire" initiative, the organization is helping address the shortage of workers in the Technology sector by helping people that have the skills, but not the necessary credentials (college degrees and/or relevant work experience) to get hired.

Automation

The staff at Opportunity@Work was manually validating job seekers' skills and sourcing candidates to their employer network. Source Labs was engaged to build a platform that automated and scaled these manual efforts. Upon successfully testing the platform's viability in the labor market we enhanced it to include numerous technical assessments-- automated coding assessments. The final product was a four-sided marketplace of job seekers, employers, volunteers and educators interacting together.

The Integrated Team:

Senior Fullstack
Software Engineer

Software Engineering Lead

List of job seekers available to employers to sort, search, filter and connect with

Outcome

The four-sided marketplace, that we've built, successfully served thousands of job seekers, employers, volunteers and educators. Hundreds of job seekers have signed up and successfully validated their technical skills. Some of the employers that have signed up for the platform include LinkedIn, Amazon, Capital One, and CVS Health.

Building the Agile team

As the product was scaled, we assisted Opportunity@Work to initiate, hire and set up a self-sustainable internal full-time Product team. Source Labs has advised the organization and helped integrate Agile & Lean Software Development processes and methodologies within the organization equipping the team with all of the tools necessary for a full project hand-off.

The Source Labs team worked alongside Opportunity@Work for two years, bringing critical technology expertise to our organization to build out our first technology platform. SourceLabs helped build and integrate modern software development processes and methodologies. As our main Technology Partner they worked with us on identifying the business problems and inefficiencies and created high-quality technology solutions to address those problems. The technology automated and augmented the work of several internal teams like Customer Success. They brought new ideas and fresh perspectives to the table and truly cared about the success of our product and the organization. They helped us hire, train, and mentor our internal engineering team to take on the ownership and maintenance of the product moving forward. This high-touch, high-quality approach made for an excellent partnership that we would highly recommend to others.

Byron Auguste, CEO and Co-Founder, Opportunity@Work