Even with only 1 week finished, we have already learned a lot! We completed a total of 7 student interviews and 2 employer interviews. So far we’ve learned that:
Students:
Hypotheses 1 – CORRECT- Students have difficulty taking value from jobs (skills) and putting it into bullet points – Our 9 skills and Accomplishment statement tutorial will be useful tools here.
Hypotheses 2 – HALF CORRECT – Students need a faster way to tailor resumes (they want to do it for every application) – Students want to customize resumes but don’t really care about the speed though. Customization is a feature we need but not a unique selling point or value proposition.
Hypotheses 3 – INCORRECT?? (Not 100% solved yet) – Students want a resume review process / tool to prevent being “tossed aside” – From the interviews students tend to think that their review process is good enough. We will see what employers think, however, which could change the result of this hypotheses.
Hypotheses 4 – HALF CORRECT – Students struggle to identify the important qualifications they need to highlight for the job – Unlike hypotheses 1 where everyone said it was a pain, only half identified it as a pain. The other half identified ass something they do already but weren’t 100% sure if they get it right.
Hypotheses 5 – CORRECT?? – Students want more guidance creating a resume than the generic resources available today – We are still not 100% on this one, and will look to confirm it this week. But students do find it difficult to start resumes and to write out a new experience from scratch.
Employers:
Not enough info to make insights yet – only 2 employers interviewed – hoping to have 5+ by Friday and more meetings booked for week 3.
In General:
We have learned that Cover Letters go hand in hand with resumes.We received a lot of feedback about how we should be asking about that process as well.
We also got some questions about how to create a LinkedIn account. We would like to pursue that as well as a possible pain point in the market that we can solve.