A smartphone screen showing a photo of a young woman with long hair, labeled as Alison, with an 86% match score, and various tags including 'Has Experience', 'USC Graduate Student', 'Creative', and 'Hardworking', against a peach background with text that reads, "StepUp: One-stop AI-powered resume and interview screening platform."

Step Up

Date

Spotify Wrapped is a well-known and successful marketing campaign that significantly impacts the brand. This analysis examines the campaign from three perspectives: 1) Brand: its influence on Spotify's identity; 2) Buzz: the social media engagement it generated; and 3) Behavior: the user behaviors it inspired. This exploration provides a deeper understanding of the campaign's effectiveness and its powerful impact.

Summary

Category

Oct 2024

Entrepreneur Idea

Group Member

Elfie Chang, Lucy Lu, Allison Tu, Aiyah Obeid

Multiple smartphone screens displaying a video interview app with profiles of young women, interview questions, and ratings, surrounded by partial images of young women in various poses.

Students find hard to secure an internship/ junior job with insufficient exprience and lack of opportunity of self-expressing.

Hiring manager have limited time to go over resumes manually, and it’s too time-consuming to do all the interviews one by one.

The Problem

Research:Job Seekers

Pie chart showing 65% of job seekers find limited self expression during hiring as a major challenge.
Pie chart showing 50% of new graduates take over 6 months to find a job.
A donut chart showing that 70% of job seekers find the interview process challenging.

Research:Hiring Managers

A black background with white icons and text. There is a person icon with a magnifying glass, and text showing "60%" below. The text "HR thinks screening candidates takes up the most time" is visible.
Icon of two people sitting at a table with the percentage '42%' and the text 'HR thinks conducting interviews takes up the most time' beneath.
Black and white graphic with a hand holding a clock with a check mark, and text indicating that 42% of the hiring process takes up to 2-4 weeks.

Our Solution

Close-up of the phrase 'Step Up' in bold, white letters on a black background.

Like Tinder,
Only it hooks you up with jobs

or the perfect candidate, if you’re HR

Logo with an orange speech bubble with a sad face and a thought bubble, next to the text 'AI driven interview' in orange.
Icon of a person with an arrow pointing from their head to a gear, indicating AI analysis; text reads 'AI analysis and screening process' in peach color.
Graphic showing two person icons with communication arrows between them and the text 'Dual platform for both HR and job seekers'.
Graphic with a peach-colored icon resembling a mobile phone and a speech bubble, alongside text that reads 'Dating-app-like user interface' in peach color.
A woman with glasses and long dark hair with green tips, smiling, wearing a red and black checkered shirt, standing in front of a white wall with writing.

Persona

Job Seeker

Daisy is an international student who just graduated from USC. She has a bachelor degree in communication however struggles to find a job providing U.S. Visa. She is fun, smart and collaborative but lack of internship experience in U.S.

Dasiy Hua

  • She is in desperate need of a job

  • Get Interview opportunities

  • See progress in her job hunting process

Needs

Frustration

  • Hard to showcase her personality through resume

  • After she apply to a job, rarely did she gets an interview invitation

  • If she is not able to land a job in U.S, she will have to go back to her home cuntry

HR

Catherine is a junior human resource operator in a mid-size tech company. She is a very compassionate person that went into HR because of her eager to get to know people and put them in the right place. She finds it hard to do so as she begin her career.

Catherine White

Needs

  • Find a more humane way of recruiting

  • Quickly know if a person is a fit

  • Get to know more people

Frustration

  • The current HR system eliminated too many possibilities.

  • Vibe fit is very essential while the current procedure takes too long to do so.

User Interface - Job Seeker Side

How does StepUp Address Market Needs

Job Seeker Side

Limited Self Expression

Highlight Video


Lengthy Interview Process

Interview in one click


Limited Feedback

Immediate Data-based Feedback


User Interface -
Human Resource Side

How does StepUp Address Market Needs

HR Side

Time Consuming Screening Process

AI automated screening


Hard to Assess Cultural Fit

AI Analysis and Detection


Lengthy Initial Interview

Auto-Edited Interview Video


Subscription Based Business Model