design thinking assignment 3
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Design thinking course
Ideate:The development between school, University and beyond graduation
Before Univeristy begins• Provide better financial management and business education to children• Truly help younger students understand, define and plan what they want to do with their
lives• Provide collaborative exercises in schools for children to solve real world problems as part
of a team• Enable kids to experience more of the work environment through planned days and
experiences• Encourage kids to get a paper route and consider alternative ideas and thinking outside the
box, such as sourcing papers from the wholesaler rather than working for the shop• Get younger students to interview their parents and review their jobs and how they got to
that point in their lives• Encourage them to create a plan moving forward of what they want to achieve• Build students confidence, by engaging them and asking how they want to learn or even
teach others• Run lessons where kids start and manage their own businesses• Change the traditional next step school question from “what do you want to study” to
“where do you want to be in 10 years time and how will you get there”
Before finishing university• Career sessions/ days with prospective employers to expose students to the type of role that they
may want• Interview sessions with previous graduates who are matched to students based on criteria such as
what the student wishes to do• At the beginning of University outlining to people the potential career their course is leading them
to, different levels of study and career searching are too separated in silos• Entrepreneurial and financial classes included earlier on in the school system so people can see and
understand the potential of starting out on your own• A wider range of internships for students through out their university career rather than a single
placement• Students should be expected to find work in the summer around a subject that interests them to
demonstrate their determination• Student should be able to study a different course for 1 week every year to give them a taste of
other opportunities and ideally reaffirm the reasons they choose their course• More innovation and inspiration based aspects within the curriculum, forcing the students to
consider different alternatives and perspectives• Draw on the experience of previous graduates and industry experts to create a database of
information for students to draw upon• Create incubators within university to develop the ideas of those wishing to be entrepreneurial and
take their own path
Upon graduation• The government should provide students with guidance and short formal training on how
best to write CV’s and interview• More internship schemes for young and determined individuals should be available in
companies, experience is essential• Access to jobs should be a more social exercise, utilising the digital tools available• Bright graduates with great ideas should be made aware of the many different types of
support and development for startups by incorporating small lectures into the leaving package
• Inform more graduates of the potential opportunities on a global level• Create a communication channel for graduates to communicate directly with the relevant
people for international opportunities• Help students create a plan to work towards, whether it is a 2 or 5 year plan, and then make
them consider how to work back from that point to realise their path• Connect graduates with similar and complimenting interests to help them work as a team
to find the right roles or start something for themselves, stop them competing in vain• Provide opportunities for students to undertake extra curricular activities outside of their
studies to expand their portfolio of experience
During transition• Organise extra learning and group hang outs, similar to hack days or online lessons around business
and marketing techniques• Help graduates learn how to market themselves properly to the right individuals• Revolutionise the recruitment industry to be run by the people with the skills they are looking for• Improve the support structure provided by universities for new graduates• Provide a ‘big brothers/sister’ type figure who is currently working in a similar role to that person
dream position• Encourage people looking for work by providing volunteering roles in exciting and stimulating
environments exposing them to new opportunities while keeping them fresh• Incase awareness around the large variety of apprenticeships available beyond the modern day to
day ‘become a builder’ model• Create employer and potential employee speed dating events for a range of different industry sectors• Encourage employers to create more internships to create a more solid wealth of experience among
the next generation• Enable new starters to learn from the positive experience of those around them but also understand
their mistakes and the important learnings from those as well• Enable and encourage migration between cities, to expand horizons and drive graduates to locations
where the work they seek may be available
First year• Provide reviews of both the individuals life goals and 5 year plan to confirm the direction they are
headed• Provide reviews of their finances to help them better manage themselves maintain a suitable level of
living• Provide more guidance around how to manage finances and breaking commercialised and debt
focused habits• Express the danger of debt and the impact it has on a persons financial future and therefore career
management/expectations• Collect that persons experiences to feed into a database for up coming fellow graduates• Create digital content such as videos on a YouTube channel of interviews with employers, employees
and there experiences• Build a webpage similar to property finder sites that shows the current states of the job market,
broken down by sector and jobs within your local area• Create a social media platform specifically for graduates looking for work, for peer reviews, guidance
and awareness of jobs in the market, working on the idea of collaboration rather than competition• Build a platform that enables them to help their friends and new graduates find work• Curate the best attention grabbing methods undertaken by the truly inspirational graduates to get
their dream job, for example wearing billboard outlining your skills by the businesses you want to work for to inspire the next group
Big ideas
Give students the opportunity to study another course for a week:The choices of course and the limited time to make the choice can be overwhelming. I think expanding a students horizon and enabling them to see what else is out there can reaffirm there choices or even open a new doorway that may not have considered.
Big ideas
Build a video recruiting platform:Enabling students to create impact, express their strengths and personalities through a medium richer than pen and paper. First impressions are important and a picture is worth a thousand words.
Big ideas
Job interview speed dating:Create employer and potential employee speed dating events for a range of different industry sectors, to get people exposure talking to the right people and making the right connections.