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The document discusses challenges faced by new graduates transitioning into employment from university. It notes that while professional development courses teach job hunting, they do not address adjusting to workplace culture and processes. Fifty ideas are generated to address this problem, such as creating a training manual, expanding university courses, or using internships to provide experience. Three selected ideas include building an employer-supported networking group for undergraduates, graduates setting company culture, and creating a reality TV show about new graduates to build empathy.

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Chosen Problem Statement Stakeholder Overwhelmed, intimidated new grad Need learn basic office skills and culture before employment Insight professional development courses at Uni teach you how to get a job, not how to transition into it. needstofindawayto because
Fifty Ideas (i) What are the most obvious solutions for this problem? * 1. Build a training manual about it 2. Create a new course at uni that deals with these things 3. Use internships to give undergrads experience 4. Tell the grads to grow up - everyone has this problem, you just need to deal with it. 5. Get the grads to see it as a challenge - show how well they can handle being out of their comfort zone and how quickly they learn. 6. Get the companies to be up-front with undergrads - this will be a challenge for you and we're being deliberately "survival of the fittest" about it - do you have what it takes? What can you add, remove or modify from an existing solution? * 7. Expand the existing professional development course to cover this. 8. Encourage companies to give more of a focus on their culture when holding recruitment drives 9. Companies can prepare a manual of their culture and processes as part of the advertising for grad positions. 10.Build a grad-friendly ratings agency and report for companies that covers these issues. * Ideas may not always match the heading. I occasionally got on a roll with ideas inspired by previous ones and didnt stop to categorise them properly.
Fifty Ideas (ii) How would a five year old child solve the problem? * 11. Ask Mum or Dad 12. Ask Elmo 13. Learn it at kindy 14. Ask your friend 15. Cry and wait for someone to help me 16. Put my hand up and wait 17. Try it my way and see if it works 18. Tell everyone that they have to do things my way 19. Run away and hide from it 20. Read a book written for children about it. 21. Go to work with Mum or Dad How would you solve the problem if you had an unlimited budget? * 22. Hire PAs for every grad to do the office work 23. Remodel the systems and organisational culture to make it easy for grads 24. Let the grads set the culture 25. Let the grads change the office processes 26. Commission an undergrad committee to research these things 27. Make a Survivor-style TV show about new grads in the workforce, to show how hard it is. 28. Make a TV show about an office, which appeals to undergrads, but show realistically what the culture is like and how to do normal office things. 29. Have Microsoft sponsor training on how to use their products in a real-world setting 30. Let grads work remotely and build sophisticated integration software that converts each individual's way of connecting into a way that's consistent with the corporate culture. * Ideas may not always match the heading. I occasionally got on a roll with ideas inspired by previous ones and didnt stop to categorise them properly.
Fifty Ideas (iii). How would you solve the problem without spending any money?* 31. Use grad word of mouth and networks at uni to spread the word 32. Appoint mentors to undergrads from previous grads 33. Encourage companies to appoint mentors at the undergrad level 34. Get grads into companies to try it for themselves 35. Cut the grads some slack 36. Let the grads know before they join that it's ok to make mistakes 37. Develop networks with companies to learn these things and communicate to undergrads 38. Role plays with undergrads 39. Set up dummy offices in campuses to practice 40. Turn uni into an office for a day - do uni "the office way". 41. Get companies to host a "work for us" day - any interested undergrads will work for the company for the day, learning their culture and protocols. 42. Get a company to model a room on campus after their office. Grads can work in it to see how it works. 43. Make a game of it with grads. 44. Build a strong undergrad/postgrad/employer support group which focuses on the things they don't teach you at uni. How would you solve this problem if you had control over the laws of nature? * 45. Use telepathy to read the minds of those who know how 46. Build a mind-link between the grad network to share 47. Use mind-control to make everyone think you know what you're doing 48. Try something your way and use a time machine to keep trying until it works 49. Force all companies to use the same processes 50. Campaign in an industry to have all companies adopt an industry-wide culture. * Ideas may not always match the heading. I occasionally got on a roll with ideas inspired by previous ones and didnt stop to categorise them properly.
Three selected ideas Most Practical Build a strong undergrad/postgrad/employer support group which focuses on the things they don't teach you at uni. I actually had a few ideas which link closely with this one probably a good sign that this idea has legs. The success would depend on the passion of the organisers, but I see it being driven by a steering group from all three stakeholder groups, who have a vision of supporting undergrads to develop the skills and behaviours which will make them into effective employees not just promising grads. Most Disruptive Let the grads set the culture This sounds disruptive to the point of being a recipe for disaster. But there are definite aspects of a companys culture which would benefit from handing a lot more control to fresh grads. For example, the Innovation culture can get very stagnant, very quickly. Also, new grads have just been drilled with the importance of Personal Brand and usually come with a full tank of energy, so can actually make very good culture role models. My Favourite Make a Survivor-style TV show about new grads in the workforce, to show how hard it is. I love this idea because it harnesses the power of story-telling to build empathy for the grads. Its not a 100% serious idea, but it has elements which could be used. I can see it building up the grads own sense of belonging to a tribe of people facing the same issues. It could be used to show how they learn and pass a message on to companies about how they could make things easier.

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  • 1. Chosen Problem Statement Stakeholder Overwhelmed, intimidated new grad Need learn basic office skills and culture before employment Insight professional development courses at Uni teach you how to get a job, not how to transition into it. needstofindawayto because
  • 2. Fifty Ideas (i) What are the most obvious solutions for this problem? * 1. Build a training manual about it 2. Create a new course at uni that deals with these things 3. Use internships to give undergrads experience 4. Tell the grads to grow up - everyone has this problem, you just need to deal with it. 5. Get the grads to see it as a challenge - show how well they can handle being out of their comfort zone and how quickly they learn. 6. Get the companies to be up-front with undergrads - this will be a challenge for you and we're being deliberately "survival of the fittest" about it - do you have what it takes? What can you add, remove or modify from an existing solution? * 7. Expand the existing professional development course to cover this. 8. Encourage companies to give more of a focus on their culture when holding recruitment drives 9. Companies can prepare a manual of their culture and processes as part of the advertising for grad positions. 10.Build a grad-friendly ratings agency and report for companies that covers these issues. * Ideas may not always match the heading. I occasionally got on a roll with ideas inspired by previous ones and didnt stop to categorise them properly.
  • 3. Fifty Ideas (ii) How would a five year old child solve the problem? * 11. Ask Mum or Dad 12. Ask Elmo 13. Learn it at kindy 14. Ask your friend 15. Cry and wait for someone to help me 16. Put my hand up and wait 17. Try it my way and see if it works 18. Tell everyone that they have to do things my way 19. Run away and hide from it 20. Read a book written for children about it. 21. Go to work with Mum or Dad How would you solve the problem if you had an unlimited budget? * 22. Hire PAs for every grad to do the office work 23. Remodel the systems and organisational culture to make it easy for grads 24. Let the grads set the culture 25. Let the grads change the office processes 26. Commission an undergrad committee to research these things 27. Make a Survivor-style TV show about new grads in the workforce, to show how hard it is. 28. Make a TV show about an office, which appeals to undergrads, but show realistically what the culture is like and how to do normal office things. 29. Have Microsoft sponsor training on how to use their products in a real-world setting 30. Let grads work remotely and build sophisticated integration software that converts each individual's way of connecting into a way that's consistent with the corporate culture. * Ideas may not always match the heading. I occasionally got on a roll with ideas inspired by previous ones and didnt stop to categorise them properly.
  • 4. Fifty Ideas (iii). How would you solve the problem without spending any money?* 31. Use grad word of mouth and networks at uni to spread the word 32. Appoint mentors to undergrads from previous grads 33. Encourage companies to appoint mentors at the undergrad level 34. Get grads into companies to try it for themselves 35. Cut the grads some slack 36. Let the grads know before they join that it's ok to make mistakes 37. Develop networks with companies to learn these things and communicate to undergrads 38. Role plays with undergrads 39. Set up dummy offices in campuses to practice 40. Turn uni into an office for a day - do uni "the office way". 41. Get companies to host a "work for us" day - any interested undergrads will work for the company for the day, learning their culture and protocols. 42. Get a company to model a room on campus after their office. Grads can work in it to see how it works. 43. Make a game of it with grads. 44. Build a strong undergrad/postgrad/employer support group which focuses on the things they don't teach you at uni. How would you solve this problem if you had control over the laws of nature? * 45. Use telepathy to read the minds of those who know how 46. Build a mind-link between the grad network to share 47. Use mind-control to make everyone think you know what you're doing 48. Try something your way and use a time machine to keep trying until it works 49. Force all companies to use the same processes 50. Campaign in an industry to have all companies adopt an industry-wide culture. * Ideas may not always match the heading. I occasionally got on a roll with ideas inspired by previous ones and didnt stop to categorise them properly.
  • 5. Three selected ideas Most Practical Build a strong undergrad/postgrad/employer support group which focuses on the things they don't teach you at uni. I actually had a few ideas which link closely with this one probably a good sign that this idea has legs. The success would depend on the passion of the organisers, but I see it being driven by a steering group from all three stakeholder groups, who have a vision of supporting undergrads to develop the skills and behaviours which will make them into effective employees not just promising grads. Most Disruptive Let the grads set the culture This sounds disruptive to the point of being a recipe for disaster. But there are definite aspects of a companys culture which would benefit from handing a lot more control to fresh grads. For example, the Innovation culture can get very stagnant, very quickly. Also, new grads have just been drilled with the importance of Personal Brand and usually come with a full tank of energy, so can actually make very good culture role models. My Favourite Make a Survivor-style TV show about new grads in the workforce, to show how hard it is. I love this idea because it harnesses the power of story-telling to build empathy for the grads. Its not a 100% serious idea, but it has elements which could be used. I can see it building up the grads own sense of belonging to a tribe of people facing the same issues. It could be used to show how they learn and pass a message on to companies about how they could make things easier.