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Veterans' Employment Challenge | Challenge.gov
Vets Medallion, or display information to help form a profle indicating whether the employer is
who it claims to be (e.g., Google/Glassdoor/Yelp/Better Business Bureau/etc.).

This competition is divided into phases that will enable Solvers to further engage users in their

design process and gather feedback on working prototypes. The mos important requirement of this
competition is that the platform solves challenges faced by the actual users, undersanding what’s
mos useful and helpful to them, rather than being tool-led.

Here is some of what we heard about the gap that exiss:

Job-Seeker Needs

Ability to flter opportunities that match skillsets based on personally important components
such as benefts ofered, location, and culture.

Recommendations of opportunities outside occupational analysis, if necessary, to describe the
skills and role in a familiar manner that Service members better undersand.
Confdence in individual privacy and data protections at the highes sandard.

Ability to “Turn on / Turn of” when you’re looking for opportunities.
Ability to control what information is shared with employers of potentially “matched”

opportunities (e.g., if you match with an opportunity, what level of information is shown to an
employer to either contact you or learn more about you).
Ability to take an action directly (such as API to apply for a job or contact an employer)—
minimizing the need to update multiple platforms or re-enter data multiple times.

Ability to connect with other veterans at a specifc company.
Ability to easily remove a particular profle and all related data from the platform.

Employer Needs

Present themselves—in particular, small business with limited HR capacities—through a profle
that contains sandardized information, as well as information about the organization.

Pos specifc available opportunities in a manner that is designed to address service member
and veteran-specifc priorities, including: position descriptions, required skillsets, benefts, and
work environment (e.g., support for Veterans, training, onboarding, mentorship opportunities).

This could include options to connect a job-seeker directly to veterans currently employed at
the company.
Generate “match liss” of qualifed candidates.

Provide technology-enabled solutions to allow for direct outreach to candidates through
mechanisms they regularly check (exising email accounts, text messages) rather than a

separate message management sysem that requires additional login (only if candidates have
set their profles to allow for direct contact).

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