Ideate

Young Graduate Students’ Problem

By

Mirza Ali Imran Baig

What was done previouslyInterview Population• Fresh Business Graduates of Pakistani Universities in first step• Interview of done in unstructured format• HR experts, on-job guys and employers were interviewed to dig inside the issue in second

phaseMajor Issue Faced by Students• “Only candidates with reference get a call for job”• “We know very little where to apply because many of the job are not advertised and are

filled without it”• “If you don’t know someone inside industry its hard to get a job”• “You must know a very high post person in order to get inside a multi national organization”Concerns of Employers• “We prefer that we hire from some reference as it gives us a better candidate”• “Our experience of CV tells that most of them doesn’t have any differentiating factor”• “We get so many irrelevant applications that its difficult to filter out”Gap Analysis• There is a lack of communication for needs of market and graduate understanding.• Role of educational institutions and HR to be enhanced to bridge the gap.

What was missed previouslyA Clear Problem Statement

So it is defined below

“Young Business graduates in Pakistan find it difficult to get a good job without reference in industry while HR has concerns on graduate applying and attempting a job making a justification for this. There is stressful desperation among the young graduates which we are going to address”

Solutions1. Make student placement center in university2. University contact companies to hire their students3. University hire a company to get their students job4. Companies refine their recruitment process5. Students have better networking chances through

communities6. Student protest publically on the issue7. Companies make universities and only admit students

they can give job8. Students leave job search and do entrepreneurship9. Students use their references to get job10.Students bribe to get job

Solutions11.University give job to all students within campus

12.Government pay all the students a stipends till job

13.Government enforce job placement procedures

14.Government limit the number of students to available jobs to balance supply and demand of market

15.Government have contracts with other countries to send unemployed graduates to foreign

16.Government support new ventures to get more job in market

Solutions17.Students make a change union to bring reforms

18.Student and HR together sort out the best solution

19.DO nothing. Let it be this way

20.Hire industry professionals in universities to bridge the gap

21.Make training programs to educate students for career counseling

22.Create pressure groups to change hiring procedures

23.Make a facebook page for all affected and say out their stress

24.Use Social Media to raise the voice on issue

Solutions26.Make a recruitment company and change the things

to better

27.Research on the gap and write scholarly papers

28.Interview large number of HR people and executives and publish it

29.Discuss the issue with group heads and ask for solution

30.Make quota for each university professor to recommend students

31.Select the students based on their grades only

32.Pool all the CVs, draw a few to give job by luck

Solutions34.Hire psychiatrists in universities to kill out stress

35.Develop job sites to help students get jobs

36.Companies hire everyone applying

37.Make everybody rich so that no one need a job (unlimited budget solution from instructions)

38.Make job criteria tougher than current ones to more shorten the jobs

39.Allow open begging so job is not required

40.Do not study cause it has problems

Solutions41. Take DTAL course and think out a solution yourself

42. Company hold competitions for job placements

43. Ask the economists to help

44. Graduates start doing crimes

45. Student ask bill gates for donation so they don’t need a job

46. Graduates not getting job commit suicide

47. Graduated ask their parents to get them jobs

48. University create entrepreneurial cells to promote entrepreneurship

49. Contact venture lab to conduct a MOOC on issue

50. Go to some other country. You can get a job there

51. Develop skills that best suit the requirement of job

Best SolutionsFor this Part, I Refer to previous learning from “Crash Course on Creativity” and use the method “Connect and Combine”

For most practical solution I combine two points and recommend that companies must develop scrutiny process and train students during their studies to company required level. This gives a fair chance to all students and a better candidate pool to companies.

Best SolutionsFor most disruptive idea, I combine researching the gap, identification of root causes, development of processes to address those ideas

For personal favorite I go for entrepreneurship ideas and strongly urge institutes, companies, government and other stake holders to encourage it

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