Huacho wants to find a reliable and inexpensive source for job opportunities. Some potential solutions discussed include creating a software app that notifies users of nearby job openings, forming a Facebook group for sharing job listings, and establishing a university network to share opportunities. The document considers various perspectives on solving Huacho's problem and generates many creative ideas.

1. Assignment 3
Generating ideas
Huacho wants to get a job
Francisco G. Barroso Tanoira
August 2013

2. Let´s review the problem…
Huacho needs an available, reliable,
friendly and inexpensive source for
finding employee opportunities,
with enough information for
choosing the best option because
the existing sources are not
updated, with incomplete
information and there´s no way to
know about a vacancy in the
moment it is generated.

3. What are the most obvious solutions for this
problem? (even things that you know already exist)
1. Looking in the newspaper
2. Asking friends about new job opportunities
3. Go to the university and ask the job opportunity department
4. Be aware of T.V. and radio commercials
5. Post an add in the newspaper
6. Go to the Commerce Chamber or the Industrial Chamber
7. Check Internet for opportunities
8. Post an add in Internet
9. Become part of a job searching community
10. Visit enterprises to ask for opportunities.

4. What are the most obvious solutions for this
problem? (even things that you know already exist)
11) Ask friends in Facebook or other social groups about job opportunities.
12) Paying a fee for already created data bases for getting job information
13) Asking the Government for job opportunities.
14) Visit firms to ask for job opportunities
15) Search in databases created by Human Resource firms such as Manpower
about what they have regarding job opportunities.
16) Attend job massive events organized by the Government, locally and in
the country.
17) Attend commercial and service events to check if the firms in the booths
have job requirements and asking for conditions.
18) Collecting business cards from people working in different firms offering
jobs.
19) Get as many contacts as possible.
20) Create my own database for job opportunities and make a living of it.

5. What can you add, remove or modify from
those initial solutions?
Add:
1) More visits and more interaction with
possible employers or colleagues.
2) Make my own database and share it
with other friends.
3) Sharing databases with friends who are
currently working
Remove:
1) Nothing for the moment
Modify:
1) Nothing for the moment

6. How would a 5-year-old child solve
the problem?
1) Ask dad an mom about opportunities
for working
2) Asking advice to be prepared for the
future
3) Making and ad and sticking it on the
house fence saying I want a job, with
colors and nice.
4) Asking the teacher where she would
work if she were not a teacher.
5) Telling his classmates that his brother
is annoyed because he´s looking for a
job

7. How would you solve the problem if you had an
unlimited budget?
1) I would take my own plane and go to different firms in the world to look for a job
2) I would talk to my friends Bill Gates and Carlos Slim and ask them where to work.
3) Ask those friends (Bill and Carlos) for advice for building a database for job
opportunities, free for people but supported by sponsorships or donations from
big firms
4) Organizing a job database contest for the best, most complete, friendliest and up
dated alternative.
5) Giving 10 USD to every person sending information about an existing job providing
reliable information
6) Forming a world university net for job opportunities.
7) Creating a job opportunity community in Facebook and other social groups.
8) Asking Human Resource managers send a global message saying there´s a need
and when the vacant job has been occupied.
9) Creating a software application for real time job opportunities in the world
10) Creating a software application that warns the person, when he is near a firm, that
there are job opportunities in that firm. This warning could be in the cell phone.

8. How would you solve the problem without
spending any money?
1) Creating a community in Facebook for job opportunities and encouraging
people to advertise opportunities.
2) Invite church or other organizations to open or create a database for
advertising about new jobs in their communities, giving that service for
free.
3) Creating a database in my department, getting information from
enterprises and delivering it to interested students.
4) Calling friends constantly to check job opportunities where they are
working.
5) Contacting students who are already working and ask them to be
opportunity searchers in their firms, sharing that information with me to
create a database .
6) Just wait until a job opportunity knocks to my door.

9. How would you solve this problem if you had control
over the laws of nature (think invisibility,
teleportation, etc.)?
1) I would become invisible and go to firms to check in the Human Resource
department about vacancies, salaries, working conditions and so on, to
publish in a special database free for everybody.
2) I would go through the walls and become invisible for getting the
information regarding jobs.
3) At light speed, I would do numbers 1 and 2 as fast as possible every night.
4) I would become a mind reader, so I could gather the requirements of all
directors, managers and Human Resource regarding jobs, with salaries
and conditions.
5) I would become a mental message deliverer to send this message to all
interested people.
6) I would mentally tell those people to deposit a fee in my account for this
service, but the money will be real, not mental.
7) I would teach carrier pigeons to come and go with job information

10. The 3 selected ideas and why
1) Having a software app warning possible
candidates, when they walk or pass in front
of the firm, that there are job opportunities
in that firm.
This will allow firms reach valuable candidates for
them at low cost, and will help people, when
they are near or in front of the firm building or
business unit, to know if there is an opportunity
there, the requirements and the working
conditions in real time.
It would be also great to have the possibility to
leave a message or send information to the firm
to be contacted when there´s a vacant job.

11. The 3 selected ideas and why
2) Forming a Facebook job community
to advertise about opportunities,
salaries and conditions in general.
As everyday there are more people in
social groups in the Web, that´s a
natural and inexpensive way for creating
a space for searching for new job
opportunities anywhere in the world.
Besides, preliminary interviews could be
arranged through this option.

12. The 3 selected ideas and why
3) Forming a university net for sharing information
about job opportunities in their areas.
Universities are reliable forms for getting
information, and why not to benefit from that
delivering and sharing information, which could be
free for students and general public, but charging a
reasonable fee for enterprises, being able to
receive sponsorships or grants to make this work.
This university employee net could be connected
to local government or business job databases.
The most important is to have available, updated
and reliable information for those wanting a job.

13. Finally, it is very important to have as
many ideas as possible, to select the
best ones to be tested.
Then, sharing these ideas with others
could make better solutions thinking
in the user, not in the designers.
Enjoy the process!!!