Storytelling 

 Challenge 

 My project is based on a circumstance many people can relate to at this moment , which is being 

 unemployed . Due to the COVID-19 virus , many businesses have taken the decision to close 

 operations or to fire many employees , this happens not only in the United States , but also in my 

 country , which is Honduras . So the project is based on getting these people a project to work 

 with small businesses that have fired employees , but still need help for some marketing or 

 financial projects . These businesses hire these people for a short amount of time , to complete 

 the projects , the people get paid , but are not on the business payrolls so the businesses get the 

 important projects done with less salary . 

 Selection 

 I had been working on the project , but had struggled finding ways to get my message across to 

 business owners . After enrolling in this course I decided to use the tool of Storytelling . 

 Storytelling is a lot more than just telling a story to an audience , it ’s actually more of making the 

 audience experience and relate to what we are saying . The reason I selected the tool of 

 Storytelling is because I wanted business owners to feel empathy towards unemployed people , 

 and even though it ’s not completely up to them , and it ’s not easy to just hire them or to stop 

 firing them , maybe they could help in a way that can at least have people get a way of living . 

 Application 

 I decided to continue my project , so I talked to some family business owners , and about the 

 current problems of today ’s work situation and how their businesses had struggled . Instead of 

 just presenting them the project as it is I shared a story about how a friend of mine had been 

 struggling to get a job even though he has the knowledge and the passion needed to be a good 

 employee . I told the story in a way that it felt like it was a problem that could happen to anyone 

 and not just my friend . My friend had been working on this job for around a year and even got 

 renewed shortly after the crisis began , but then quarantine got extended , and the business had 

 to reduce the expenses so he got fired . He needed a job to help his family during this tough 

 time , so that ’s when I told them about how my project could help several different people get a 

 job , maybe not their dream job , but in this crisis every single penny counts . 

 The business owners started thinking that sometimes their staff really could use a hand to be 

 effective , and that something like what I presented as a project could help these people get a 

 job for a short period of time and although they may only work in the same place for a week or 

 two , and in some rare cases maybe a month , they may get referred to another job to work for 

 another week and maybe this could help their situation , while many businesses get their feet 

 back on . They also shared their own stories about people that they had to let go and about how 

 they see things from their perspective as business owners . 

 Insights 

 The way I told the story really influenced how people responded , because they felt the 

 unemployed people ’s problem as their own . They felt engaged with the project as their own and 

 thus gave me feedback about how to improve . These couple of interviews really helped me , not 

 only because I received some positive feedback , but I also received some negative feedback . 

 They helped me understand that some businesses may really like the idea , but instead of 

 contacting my business , they could just rehire people they had fired , so to make the project 

 work I have to change a few things and improve some ideas , like providing the unemployed 

 people that I help get jobs some initiative so they do n’t work on their own next time . 

 Approach 

 Maybe next time I ’ll be more confident when using storytelling , since in some parts I got nervous 

 explaining my project through the story . This tool really helps getting people invested in a 

 project , idea or business , so next time I hope I can use it on a larger scale , and have an even 

 better use of storytelling . I learned through this course that it ’s very important to receive 

 feedback and that storytelling is not only used on a massive scale like a business commercial or 

 on TV , but can also be used when talking face to face with somebody . Maybe next time I can 

 use some of the other tools I learned through this course and use them as many times as I 

 need . 


EMAIL: 
ID_NUM: 
NAME_STUDENT: 
PHONE_NUM: 
STREET_ADDRESS: 
URL_PERSONAL: 
USERNAME: 

### Task: You are a PII (Personal Identity Information) Detection. Given a essays written by students, you have to identify ONLY the following:
NAME_STUDENT - The full or partial name of a student that is not necessarily the author of the essay. This excludes instructors, authors, and other person names.
EMAIL - A student’s email address.
USERNAME - A student's username on any platform.
ID_NUM - A number or sequence of characters that could be used to identify a student, such as a student ID or a social security number.
PHONE_NUM - A phone number associated with a student.
URL_PERSONAL - A URL that might be used to identify a student.
STREET_ADDRESS - A full or partial street address that is associated with the student, such as their home address.
### Input: Storytelling 

 Challenge 

 My project is based on a circumstance many people can relate to at this moment , which is being 

 unemployed . Due to the COVID-19 virus , many businesses have taken the decision to close 

 operations or to fire many employees , this happens not only in the United States , but also in my 

 country , which is Honduras . So the project is based on getting these people a project to work 

 with small businesses that have fired employees , but still need help for some marketing or 

 financial projects . These businesses hire these people for a short amount of time , to complete 

 the projects , the people get paid , but are not on the business payrolls so the businesses get the 

 important projects done with less salary . 

 Selection 

 I had been working on the project , but had struggled finding ways to get my message across to 

 business owners . After enrolling in this course I decided to use the tool of Storytelling . 

 Storytelling is a lot more than just telling a story to an audience , it ’s actually more of making the 

 audience experience and relate to what we are saying . The reason I selected the tool of 

 Storytelling is because I wanted business owners to feel empathy towards unemployed people , 

 and even though it ’s not completely up to them , and it ’s not easy to just hire them or to stop 

 firing them , maybe they could help in a way that can at least have people get a way of living . 

 Application 

 I decided to continue my project , so I talked to some family business owners , and about the 

 current problems of today ’s work situation and how their businesses had struggled . Instead of 

 just presenting them the project as it is I shared a story about how a friend of mine had been 

 struggling to get a job even though he has the knowledge and the passion needed to be a good 

 employee . I told the story in a way that it felt like it was a problem that could happen to anyone 

 and not just my friend . My friend had been working on this job for around a year and even got 

 renewed shortly after the crisis began , but then quarantine got extended , and the business had 

 to reduce the expenses so he got fired . He needed a job to help his family during this tough 

 time , so that ’s when I told them about how my project could help several different people get a 

 job , maybe not their dream job , but in this crisis every single penny counts . 

 The business owners started thinking that sometimes their staff really could use a hand to be 

 effective , and that something like what I presented as a project could help these people get a 

 job for a short period of time and although they may only work in the same place for a week or 

 two , and in some rare cases maybe a month , they may get referred to another job to work for 

 another week and maybe this could help their situation , while many businesses get their feet 

 back on . They also shared their own stories about people that they had to let go and about how 

 they see things from their perspective as business owners . 

 Insights 

 The way I told the story really influenced how people responded , because they felt the 

 unemployed people ’s problem as their own . They felt engaged with the project as their own and 

 thus gave me feedback about how to improve . These couple of interviews really helped me , not 

 only because I received some positive feedback , but I also received some negative feedback . 

 They helped me understand that some businesses may really like the idea , but instead of 

 contacting my business , they could just rehire people they had fired , so to make the project 

 work I have to change a few things and improve some ideas , like providing the unemployed 

 people that I help get jobs some initiative so they do n’t work on their own next time . 

 Approach 

 Maybe next time I ’ll be more confident when using storytelling , since in some parts I got nervous 

 explaining my project through the story . This tool really helps getting people invested in a 

 project , idea or business , so next time I hope I can use it on a larger scale , and have an even 

 better use of storytelling . I learned through this course that it ’s very important to receive 

 feedback and that storytelling is not only used on a massive scale like a business commercial or 

 on TV , but can also be used when talking face to face with somebody . Maybe next time I can 

 use some of the other tools I learned through this course and use them as many times as I 

 need .
### Output: 