Product to help undergraduates navigate non - tech placements   Design Thinking Tools used- Learning Launch and Mind Maps 

 Challenge 

 As a part of my duty as a mentor to the senior year undergraduates , I consider myself responsible for   helping the students in getting a job or bagging an internship . The branch of engineering I am   associated with does not have a software development as a requisite course and hence more often   than not people tend to choose non - tech profiles for placements . During my time as the placement   coordinator of the branch , I noticed that while the students have aspirations of making it big in their   interviews , they often lack the resources / guidance to do so . I realised that the challenge was to   educate students well in advance about the incoming challenges and guide them how to crack the   interviews in the most efficient and practical way possible . 

 Selection 

 Owing to the pandemic situation , meeting and conducting workshops for better penetrability of the   subject was not possible and hence I had to choose to write a blog enlisting the various resources   and personal tips and guidance on how to navigate non - tech placements for undergraduates . During   this process , I used 2 design thinking tools , i.e. Mind Mapping – during the structuring of the blog ;   Learning Launch – to test the reach of my blog in order to further make plans of making the service   into a product for a wider audience . 

 Application 

 During the preparation of mind maps , I tried to establish a relation between what a company wants   from an employee and what the interviewer ’s expectations from the candidate are . On listing   several attributes like analytical thinking , communication skills , negotiation skills , etc . I tried to   correlate the attributes with the methods required to test them in an interview and hence tried to   research about the materials or books which provide help or guidance to practice and perfect these   methods . 

 The learning launch was an essential part to test the reach and get feedback on the idea . By applying   the learning launch tool , I released a blogpost consisting of all the major resources / guidance to get a   non - tech placement and released it on a social networking site called Medium . Next , I tried to   increase the reach of the post by social media sharing and also sending it to the faculty in charge of   the department to disseminate information to the students . 

 Insights 

 While the mind maps helped me to structure my thoughts perfectly in a blogpost , the learning   launch helped me get a variety of insights from major stakeholders . I received suggestions from   people outside my network who read the post and hence was made aware of the skill gap in the   undergraduates in terms of business communication skills and ethics . I realised that to make a   product out of this idea would require me to mentor the students on a one - to - one basis with a small   batch size and in a single engineering branch and then further scale it to the other colleges by   introducing a social network or peer groups methodology . 

 Approach 

 After the completion of the learning launch process , I have decided to act upon the inputs given to   me by the readers of the blogpost . One of the most important inputs given was to first elaborate 

 about my experience of the interviews and to entail how I bagged a placement offer from the   company so as to ensure my credibility . Secondly , future launch designs will comprise of a more   interactive manner of learning by personally mentoring a batch of 20 students and monitoring their   skill growth and overall development to become employable . 

 This design thinking course has helped me a lot in structuring the ideas and efficiently portraying the   ideas . 


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: Product to help undergraduates navigate non - tech placements   Design Thinking Tools used- Learning Launch and Mind Maps 

 Challenge 

 As a part of my duty as a mentor to the senior year undergraduates , I consider myself responsible for   helping the students in getting a job or bagging an internship . The branch of engineering I am   associated with does not have a software development as a requisite course and hence more often   than not people tend to choose non - tech profiles for placements . During my time as the placement   coordinator of the branch , I noticed that while the students have aspirations of making it big in their   interviews , they often lack the resources / guidance to do so . I realised that the challenge was to   educate students well in advance about the incoming challenges and guide them how to crack the   interviews in the most efficient and practical way possible . 

 Selection 

 Owing to the pandemic situation , meeting and conducting workshops for better penetrability of the   subject was not possible and hence I had to choose to write a blog enlisting the various resources   and personal tips and guidance on how to navigate non - tech placements for undergraduates . During   this process , I used 2 design thinking tools , i.e. Mind Mapping – during the structuring of the blog ;   Learning Launch – to test the reach of my blog in order to further make plans of making the service   into a product for a wider audience . 

 Application 

 During the preparation of mind maps , I tried to establish a relation between what a company wants   from an employee and what the interviewer ’s expectations from the candidate are . On listing   several attributes like analytical thinking , communication skills , negotiation skills , etc . I tried to   correlate the attributes with the methods required to test them in an interview and hence tried to   research about the materials or books which provide help or guidance to practice and perfect these   methods . 

 The learning launch was an essential part to test the reach and get feedback on the idea . By applying   the learning launch tool , I released a blogpost consisting of all the major resources / guidance to get a   non - tech placement and released it on a social networking site called Medium . Next , I tried to   increase the reach of the post by social media sharing and also sending it to the faculty in charge of   the department to disseminate information to the students . 

 Insights 

 While the mind maps helped me to structure my thoughts perfectly in a blogpost , the learning   launch helped me get a variety of insights from major stakeholders . I received suggestions from   people outside my network who read the post and hence was made aware of the skill gap in the   undergraduates in terms of business communication skills and ethics . I realised that to make a   product out of this idea would require me to mentor the students on a one - to - one basis with a small   batch size and in a single engineering branch and then further scale it to the other colleges by   introducing a social network or peer groups methodology . 

 Approach 

 After the completion of the learning launch process , I have decided to act upon the inputs given to   me by the readers of the blogpost . One of the most important inputs given was to first elaborate 

 about my experience of the interviews and to entail how I bagged a placement offer from the   company so as to ensure my credibility . Secondly , future launch designs will comprise of a more   interactive manner of learning by personally mentoring a batch of 20 students and monitoring their   skill growth and overall development to become employable . 

 This design thinking course has helped me a lot in structuring the ideas and efficiently portraying the   ideas .
### Output: 