2019 ADP
Hackathon Winner
Part I
Overview
About
In 2019, I participated in a hackathon hosted by ADP, focusing on solving various business challenges. My impromptu team of 5 chose to address the issue of salary negotiation. Through innovative thinking and effective teamwork, we developed a solution that earned us first place in Georgia and third place worldwide. This achievement exemplifies my ability to collaborate on complex problems and deliver successful solutions.
My Contributions
Feature ideation and UX Design
Problem
In the American workforce, the inability to effectively negotiate or understand job offers leads to pay disparities among employees with similar qualifications, based on their negotiation prowess. The challenge extends to employers and employees alike in determining fair market salaries, fostering situations of under-offering and rejection of competitive offers.
Solution
As the world’s largest payroll provider, ADP has data that could be leveraged in an accessible tool to facilitates fair and informed negotiation and evaluation of compensation packages. Due to time constraints, we built only the worker’s solution.
Part II
Goals & Objectives
- Full understanding and breakdown of the value a compensation package has.
- A relative awareness of their own market value quantified as a range.
- A better position to more confidently and fairly negotiate their compensation.
- Recognition for being a fair and equal opportunity employer.
- The ability to better strategize for budgets.
- The power to make more informed job offers.
Part III
Research
Academic Sources
SME Interviews
Uncovered User Needs
- To review the employer’s reputation as user is more likely to accept a position that has a record of paying people fairly even after promotions and changes.
- Ability to consider the monetary value of benefits/perks.
- Guidance in ways to increase one’s market value. (Opportunity for 3rd party advertising?)
- Ability to see the average pay of people in similar career stages and ability to enable/disable adjustment for different costs of living.
- Various additional insights into job market health and the company’s habits.
Part IV
Design
Part V
Conclusion
Retrospection
We assumed we had to stop working at end of business time, and later found out we could have worked longer. We would have loved to presented a working prototype.