Ideate exercise for DTAL School to work transition

1. DesignThinking Action Lab
Ideate
for
school to work transition
by
Sanjay Sinha

2. HOW MIGHT WE
help people find
rewarding job of
their choice
Train people
to like their
job
Let people
do what they
want to do
Separate jobs from
compensation.
Salary should be
based on needs not
performance
Train people not to
worry about salary
Make attitude and
aptitude maim
criteria of hiring
Make it mandatory for
government to offer
people job of their
choice
Increase the pool of
jobs. Hence better
chance of finding
right job.
Reverse the process of
job search. Let
companies search
people based on their
preference
Better skill mapping
people’s skill and
preference and job
requirements
Creating flexible job
environment. Let
people do 2-3 jobs
simultaneously
Let people do two
jobs. One to earn a
living and one for
self actualization
Employee to
employee (E2E) job
swap. Let people
swap their jobs

3. HOW MIGHT WE
help people find
rewarding job of
their choice
De -specialize
jobs to make
it diverse and
interesting
Train people to
identify their needs
scientifically
Train people to
identify job attributes
scientifically
Make it mandatory
to post job at a
central database for
people to search
Allow people to be on
probation for limited
period to better
understand fitment
Jobs should essentially be
‘Work from Home’ so that
people can join distant jobs
of their choice
Create a global
online market place
of jobs.
Create entrepreneur
culture so that anybody
starts work of his choice
Create a virtual world
where anybody is
allowed to take any
job and any salary
Let employers allow
people to do
honorary work with
them
Let people identify
jobs of their choice
first and then get
trained to acquire
that
Create a professional
social network of
employed and job
seekers to exchange
information

4. HOW MIGHT WE
help people find
rewarding job of
their choice
People can
create as
many clones
for different
jobs
Create more jobs
than job-seekers
Phase off money as
a currency of
exchange
Let finding the job of
choice be made as
fundamental right
Limit job tenure as
maximum 1 year, that
will allow many people
same job in rotation
Let all jobs be made
rotational. Everybody
should do everything.
Finish-off
hierarchical system.
Everybody in
organization is
equal
Government should pay
start-up fund to all
college pass outs
Let people buy jobs
of their choice from
job market
No employer can
refuse work to job
seeker
Let people pay
companies for
allowing them to
work
Why work?

5. The Most Practical Idea
Create a professional social network of employed and job
seekers to exchange information
The social network of Employed and Job seekers would be
a good idea because today’s employed were yesterdays
job-seeker and today’s job seekers will be tomorrow’s
employed.
The exchange of information will be a great way for
job-seekers to identify and find the job of their choice.

6. The Most Disruptive Idea
Separate jobs from compensation. Salary should be based on
needs not performance
The core of the problem is mismatch between job content
and remuneration. The separation of these two element will
disrupt the job eco-system. In that circumstance people will
start to do the job of their choice without worrying about the
compensation system. The world will be different place, if
not better.

7. My Favorite Idea
Let people do two jobs. One to earn a living and one for self
actualization
Such a situation will allow people to earn their living as well
as realize their inner self. Many people want to pursue a
hobby, profession, career that is not financially rewarding.
Such people should be allowed to pursue additional
career, besides job for compensation, to follow their
dreams.