Excelship

A product focused on connecting new workers with employers. With a target demographic of graduating students and recent grads.

Time to Design Concept

1 Month

My role

Research and Product Design

The Problem

  • New graduates have a hard time securing employment.
  • Employers need workers with previous experience.
  • Many students don’t know where to start.
  • Finding new talent is difficult.

The Solution

  • Focus to assist companies AND graduating/recent grads.
  • Match students to mentor / internships at companies.
  • Direct companies to students.
  • Help build network and networking skills.
  • Help users discover required skills to be ready to enter workforce.

Design Thinking Process

Roles

Research and Lightning Talks

Assumptions

Personas

Benchmark and Brainstorm

Golden Path / Onboard

User Path

Data Model Diagram

Wireframes

Sample Screens

Results

  • Tracking mentee and mentor chat frequency can demonstrate qualitative success.
  • Hired mentees would be a quantitative metric and college success.
  • Reduced training time and readily available talent pool would be a client success.
  • Colleges introducing product to students would be a company success.