Idea Evaluation
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The document presents three ideas for career development: 1) Creating online communities for business school students to connect and share career advice and insights, 2) Requiring high school students to choose career tracks to focus their education, and 3) Starting a one-year national school for recent college graduates to support their transition into the workforce through counseling, industry training, and networking.
Idea Evaluation
- 1. Most Practical Idea: Create a LinkedIn and Google+ community for Business School students Expansion of idea: Use these two social networks to organize groups of graduate students (beyond just b-school) to connect and share tips, insights and advice. The objective of the community would be to foster information and knowledge sharing, ultimately improving comprehension around what it takes to break into the industry, succeed within a certain company, and pursue a successful career in the given field.
- 2. Most Disruptive Idea: Create (and enforce) job tracks starting in high school to stimulate students to think about their careers from an earlier point. Expansion of idea: By age 14, students will need to start aligning their ambitions around three potential career tracks from a diversity of fields. For example, a student may express interest in becoming a lawyer, a doctor, or a scientist. As he/she progresses through high school, they are exposed to educational and internship-related material that will reinforce what each of those career tracks entails and requires. By the end of high school, the student would need to narrow his/her job tracks down to just 1or 2. By the time they enter college, they have a much tighter focus, and can spend the following 4 years around job training and preparing for the actual real world.
- 3. My Favorite Idea: Start a 1-year national school that focuses on supporting and helping recent college graduates that have just started their first job. Expansion of idea: The school would exist in major cities across the country. It would consist of leading and well-respected working professionals, both established, and relatively young to the industry, teaching the fundamentals about the industry, job type, career trajectory, etc. In addition, the school would include counselors that could provide both professional and emotional support to help ensure a smooth transition from college into the working world. In addition, the school would include a library that would be industry-focused â loaded with reading material and other resources to help you be more successful. School would only occur at night, to cater to a working professionalâs schedule. There would also be classes available to learn key skills such as business writing, negotiation, computer program fundamentals, etc. Students would also be able to network with other students that are in similar industries and situations.