Feasibility study for a tool to promote linguistic and cultural inclusivity in the career development sector.

CareerEar是职业支持小组用来帮助求职者找到工作的软件的开发者，该平台目前被一些就业能力小组和方案使用，包括Reed in Partnership、Lambeth Council和工作和养老金部门。这个应用程序是由人力资源和就业能力专家团队开发的，他们是数字企业家，专注于为求职者提供解决方案，为求职者提供高质量和高用户针对性的建议。CareerEar团队的动机源于事实证明的成功，为求职者提供合适的支持通常会对求职者及其获得有意义的长期工作的机会产生变革性的影响。CareerEar团队由个人组成，他们对不平等以及缺乏机会对我们社会中的许多人造成的危害都有直接和间接的经验。CareerEar专门开发了这款软件，使任何求职者都能了解自己的技能，并了解他们可以获得的各种工作机会。CareerEar为就业能力支持团队提供用户数据和见解，但直接意识到，为了让这些团队支持弱势求职者，需要更丰富的见解。英语作为第二语言的求职者和/或计算机技能较低的人需要纳入这样的解决方案，因为他们占这些就业能力支助小组寻求支持的求职者人口的很大比例。随附的应用程序侧重于CareerEar的目标，即在CareerEar平台内开发一种新工具EarlyBird，该工具能够用求职者的母语倾听求职者的声音，将他们的演讲翻译并转录成文本，然后为就业中心工作人员提供书面英语的关键见解。出于实际原因，所附项目的范围是对至少一种主要世界语言(预计是阿拉伯语)的“会外语”的EarlyBird版本进行可行性研究。一旦得到验证，该业务将能够将该系统扩展到覆盖其他世界语言。正在寻求投资，使该团队能够获得技术、语言和包容性界面设计专门知识，以补充现有的CareerEar团队。利用这笔资金，该小组将重点开展用户研究、技术可行性和用户测试/反馈方案，与现场求职者进行交流，以确保今后提供更具包容性的职业发展服务。

CareerEar are the developers of software that is used by career support teams to support job seekers find employment, the platform is currently used by a number of employability teams and programmes including Reed In Partnership, Lambeth Council and Department for Work and Pensions. This application has been developed by a team of human resources and employability specialists, digital entrepreneurs with a strong focus on providing solutions that can provide jobseekers with high quality, and high user specific advice. The motivation from the CareerEar team stems from proven success, providing a job seeker with the right support will typically have a transformational impact on the jobseeker and their chances of securing meaningful long-term employment. The CareerEar team is composed of individuals with both direct and indirect experience of inequality and how the lack of opportunity is a blight on many in our society. CareerEar has developed the software specifically to enable any job seeker to understand their skills and understand the full range of job opportunities they can access. CareerEar provides user data and insights to employability support teams but is directly aware that richer insights are required in order for these teams to support disadvantaged job seekers. English as second language jobseekers and/or those with low computer skills need to be included in such a solution as groups who make up a large proportion of the demographic of job seekers that these employability support teams seek to support. The enclosed application is focused on CareerEar's goal to develop a new tool, EarlyBird, within the CareerEar platform that is able to listen to the job seeker in their native language, translate and transcribe their speech into text and then provide careers centre staff with key insights in written English. For practical reasons, the scope of the enclosed project is to conduct a feasibility study on a "foreign language capable" version of EarlyBird in at least one major world language (expected to be Arabic). Once proven, the business will be able to extend the system to cover other world languages. Investment is being sought to enable the team to access technical, linguistic and inclusive interface design expertise to complement the existing CareerEar team. With this funding the team will focus on a programme of user research, technical feasibility and user testing/feedback with live Jobseekers to ensure the delivery of a more inclusive careers development service in the future.