- Roxanne is a young, educated student who is passionate about her studies but feels she needs more real-world, hands-on experience.
- She reached out to all of her contacts in search of a job that would provide experience relevant to her fields of interest in engineering, science, or design.
- While many promised help, few leads materialized. Roxanne realized many people make promises they don't keep.
- As a result, Roxanne decided to take an entrepreneurship course to start her own self-sufficient business and fund her education and passions.
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Prototype test-feedback experiment
1. Say:
Not happy with current job perspective
Studying business, feels there is no future
in business with the advancement of
robotics, AI and Moores Law
Wants to change field of study to
engineering, design , architecture , science
to become helpful to society
Competent, competitive, hard working
Likes travelling, reading, philosophy
Little field experience, needs more
experience to build a strong background
Prefers to work in teams
Not a morning person
Single, non-smoker
Think:
She would probably fit in this job requirements
It is worth trying this job, to build experience
and not for the money
Can accommodate both studying and working
If there is a prospect for a career advancement
she might stay longer in the job
Could easily find a job with her resume
Do:
Very confident on herself, body language matches her
speech
Knows what she wants
Very active, fast speaking , rapid eye movements
Organized thoughts
Pleasant and well dressed
Feel:
She feels she needs
experience more than money
at this moment in her life
The money that she will earn
would cover the expenses for
her plans to travel abroad
Strong desire to achieve
something in life, a higher
purpose in life
Would sacrifice personal life
for a career
2. Stakeholder
Young and determinate to
succeed in life, educated ,
passionate and with high
aspirations.
Problem/need:
Roxanne needs more work
experience, and hands on
experiments as she loves
experiments.
Roxanne needs a job that will benefit her fields of study or
interests, while she is still in school. She needs to combine
her learning experiences with real life, hands on experiences.
Insight:
3. Generate 50 ideas: because she needs to expand her
view first to see what options are available and then
decide
Reach out to all your phone book contacts : as
perhaps friends can help or direct you in the right
direction
Create Art with message: I personally like Art and
expressing a with through art and displaying on busy
pedestrian locations will have a positive impact on all
and might bring unexpected returns
Favorite ideas:
4. Roxanne has reached out to all her phone book
contacts(67% family and 33% friends)
She has gotten lots of promises yet no job offer
High response rate >70% from all contacted, the 30%
either could not be reached or did not return the
phone calls
Received lots of encouragements which makes her
feel better and more optimistic about her future
Those who she counted most on, her friends working
in information and technology fields did not helped
much
Prototype 1
5. Roxanne reached out to all her social media contacts(95%
friends and acquaintances and 5% family)
She has got a very low response rate 41%<
From those who responded many promised they will seek
to help her
Those who said in the past that whenever she will need a
job to come to them, 90% did not respond while 10% said
that the are sorry but could not help for various reasons
Again she received lots of encouragements
She received some offers to work in Food&Beverage, for a
low wage and extended hours, an offer that cannot
benefit her work experience and she turn it down
Prototype 2
6. Roxanne considered the approach is appropriate for the
purpose of getting more hands on experience, however
not enough
It was a very revealing experiment, also made her get in
touch with people who she did not speak for a long time
It was a very time consuming experiment
Roxanne realized during the Prototype experiment that
many people promise and do not keep their promises
Roxanne decided to take an entrepreneur course and start
a self sufficient business rather than work for someone
else and with the money to fund her passions for learning ,
career and social contribution
Roxanne will apply the
prototype>test>feedback>redesign loop in her future
start-up business
Conclusions/Reflections