This is an assignment submission

1. Ideate
Young Graduate Students’ Problem
By
Mirza Ali Imran Baig

2. What was done previously
Interview Population
• Fresh Business Graduates of Pakistani Universities in first step
• Interview of done in unstructured format
• HR experts, on-job guys and employers were interviewed to dig inside the issue in second
phase
Major Issue Faced by Students
• “Only candidates with reference get a call for job”
• “We know very little where to apply because many of the job are not advertised and are
filled without it”
• “If you don’t know someone inside industry its hard to get a job”
• “You must know a very high post person in order to get inside a multi national organization”
Concerns of Employers
• “We prefer that we hire from some reference as it gives us a better candidate”
• “Our experience of CV tells that most of them doesn’t have any differentiating factor”
• “We get so many irrelevant applications that its difficult to filter out”
Gap Analysis
• There is a lack of communication for needs of market and graduate understanding.
• Role of educational institutions and HR to be enhanced to bridge the gap.

3. What was missed previously
A Clear Problem Statement
So it is defined below
“Young Business graduates in Pakistan find it difficult
to get a good job without reference in industry while
HR has concerns on graduate applying and attempting
a job making a justification for this. There is stressful
desperation among the young graduates which we
are going to address”

4. Solutions
1. Make student placement center in university
2. University contact companies to hire their students
3. University hire a company to get their students job
4. Companies refine their recruitment process
5. Students have better networking chances through
communities
6. Student protest publically on the issue
7. Companies make universities and only admit students
they can give job
8. Students leave job search and do entrepreneurship
9. Students use their references to get job
10.Students bribe to get job

5. Solutions
11.University give job to all students within campus
12.Government pay all the students a stipends till job
13.Government enforce job placement procedures
14.Government limit the number of students to
available jobs to balance supply and demand of
market
15.Government have contracts with other countries
to send unemployed graduates to foreign
16.Government support new ventures to get more job
in market

6. Solutions
17.Students make a change union to bring reforms
18.Student and HR together sort out the best solution
19.DO nothing. Let it be this way
20.Hire industry professionals in universities to bridge the
gap
21.Make training programs to educate students for career
counseling
22.Create pressure groups to change hiring procedures
23.Make a facebook page for all affected and say out
their stress
24.Use Social Media to raise the voice on issue

7. Solutions
26.Make a recruitment company and change the things
to better
27.Research on the gap and write scholarly papers
28.Interview large number of HR people and executives
and publish it
29.Discuss the issue with group heads and ask for
solution
30.Make quota for each university professor to
recommend students
31.Select the students based on their grades only
32.Pool all the CVs, draw a few to give job by luck

8. Solutions
34.Hire psychiatrists in universities to kill out stress
35.Develop job sites to help students get jobs
36.Companies hire everyone applying
37.Make everybody rich so that no one need a job
(unlimited budget solution from instructions)
38.Make job criteria tougher than current ones to
more shorten the jobs
39.Allow open begging so job is not required
40.Do not study cause it has problems

9. Solutions
41. Take DTAL course and think out a solution yourself
42. Company hold competitions for job placements
43. Ask the economists to help
44. Graduates start doing crimes
45. Student ask bill gates for donation so they don’t need a job
46. Graduates not getting job commit suicide
47. Graduated ask their parents to get them jobs
48. University create entrepreneurial cells to promote
entrepreneurship
49. Contact venture lab to conduct a MOOC on issue
50. Go to some other country. You can get a job there
51. Develop skills that best suit the requirement of job

10. Best Solutions
For this Part, I Refer to previous learning from “Crash
Course on Creativity” and use the method “Connect
and Combine”
For most practical solution I combine two points and
recommend that companies must develop scrutiny
process and train students during their studies to
company required level. This gives a fair chance to all
students and a better candidate pool to companies.

11. Best Solutions
For most disruptive idea, I combine researching the
gap, identification of root causes, development of
processes to address those ideas
For personal favorite I go for entrepreneurship ideas
and strongly urge institutes, companies, government
and other stake holders to encourage it

12. Last but not Least
Thanks to the peer evaluators for reading such a lengthy
text. I know it was boring and I am sorry for that
Thumbs up to those observers who figured out that I
deliberately missed two numbers in 51 numbered ideas
and a time pass for those who missed to find which two I
missed
Please do not rate me 3 for 49 ideas as I did generate 3
more connect and combine ideas to make total of 52 and
I have more but thought to leave some fun behind

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