Interview 1: Graduating Arts Undergrad

This student was in our target market, an arts undergrad student in her final year. She has been heavily involved in student leadership opportunities around campus and has been told by mentors and supervisors that her resume needs work.

In summary she proved Hypotheses 1 and 5 very well, 3 and 4 well and didn’t prove 2 at all.  Her process was creating job applications on word and is now starting to seek outside help but is not very knowledgeable of her options.

See our notes for the script with questions, answers and insights.

 

Student Hypotheses v1

The hypothesis we are testing with students through interviews in the upcoming week is that : Students find making resumes difficult and stressful.  We also realize, however, that this is a broad hypothesis and we want to find out what parts of making a resume are the source of this difficulty, and where we can make the most inroads in solving this pain.  So, we have identified Sub-hypotheses: Continue reading

Week 1: Employer Interview w/ Sh

This was one of our first employer interviews. The biggest takeaways were:

  1. The HR department pre-filters the resumes based on basic qualifications
  2. No interest in looking at work samples (not enough time)
  3. Small errors will not get your resume thrown out

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Our First “Interview”

Right after we left our first session on Friday, we ran into four Masters of Management students on their lunch that just had a session on career development. We were very lucky to get them at a time when they were available and in the mindset of creating job applications.

Three main points we took out of the encounter were: Continue reading

Business Model Canvas Updated Nov 1

 

These are the Value Props we are testing with these customer segments.