Design Thinking Action Lab

Ideatefor

school to work transition

bySanjay Sinha

HOW MIGHT WE

help people find

rewarding job of

their choice

Train people to like their

job

Let people do what they

want to do

Separate jobs from compensation.

Salary should be based on needs not

performance

Train people not to worry about salary

Make attitude and aptitude maim

criteria of hiring

Make it mandatory for government to offer people job of their

choice

Increase the pool of jobs. Hence better chance of finding

right job.

Reverse the process of job search. Let

companies search people based on their

preference

Better skill mapping people’s skill and

preference and job requirements

Creating flexible job environment. Let

people do 2-3 jobs simultaneously

Let people do two jobs. One to earn a living and one for self actualization

Employee to employee (E2E) job

swap. Let people swap their jobs

HOW MIGHT WE

help people find

rewarding job of

their choice

De -specialize jobs to make it diverse and

interesting

Train people to identify their needs

scientifically

Train people to identify job attributes

scientifically

Make it mandatory to post job at a

central database for people to search

Allow people to be on probation for limited

period to better understand fitment

Jobs should essentially be ‘Work from Home’ so that

people can join distant jobs of their choice

Create a global online market place

of jobs.

Create entrepreneur culture so that anybody starts work of his choice

Create a virtual world where anybody is

allowed to take any job and any salary

Let employers allow people to do

honorary work with them

Let people identify jobs of their choice first and then get trained to acquire

that

Create a professional social network of employed and job

seekers to exchange information

HOW MIGHT WE

help people find

rewarding job of

their choice

People can create as

many clones for different

jobs

Create more jobs than job-seekers

Phase off money as a currency of

exchange

Let finding the job of choice be made as fundamental right

Limit job tenure as maximum 1 year, that

will allow many people same job in rotation

Let all jobs be made rotational. Everybody should do everything.

Finish-off hierarchical system.

Everybody in organization is

equal

Government should pay start-up fund to all college pass outs

Let people buy jobs of their choice from

job market

No employer can refuse work to job

seeker

Let people pay companies for

allowing them to work

Why work?

The Most Practical Idea

Create a professional social network of employed and job seekers to exchange information

The social network of Employed and Job seekers would be

a good idea because today’s employed were yesterdays

job-seeker and today’s job seekers will be tomorrow’s

employed.

The exchange of information will be a great way for

job-seekers to identify and find the job of their choice.

The Most Disruptive Idea

Separate jobs from compensation. Salary should be based on needs not performance

The core of the problem is mismatch between job content

and remuneration. The separation of these two element will

disrupt the job eco-system. In that circumstance people will

start to do the job of their choice without worrying about the

compensation system. The world will be different place, if

not better.

My Favorite Idea

Let people do two jobs. One to earn a living and one for self actualization

Such a situation will allow people to earn their living as well

as realize their inner self. Many people want to pursue a

hobby, profession, career that is not financially rewarding.

Such people should be allowed to pursue additional

career, besides job for compensation, to follow their

dreams.