The document summarizes interviews with two engineering graduates about their career plans after graduation. Both graduates are looking for jobs but are struggling to find work. They feel frustrated by their inability to find employment and perceive that female graduates have an easier time getting jobs. While one graduate considers pursuing an MBA in the future, both are willing to take any job that provides income and are exploring learning new skills like Java and C++ to improve their employment prospects. The problem identified is that the graduates are unclear whether their priority after graduating is earning money or gaining knowledge in their field.

1. Empathize and Define
Group: Imagination is Important
Presenter: Mithu Deb
Date: 05 Aug 2013

2. Subject - Graduates
Graduate1 : Engineering in Mechanics
Graduate2 : Engineering in Instrumentation and Communication

3. Open Ended Questions
• You happy with what you have done as engineering?
• You looking for a job or want to study more?
• So all your classmates are working now?
• What if you don’t get into job selection? Will you study?
• What’s your dad saying.
• Do you want to work for sometime and then study MBA/MS or higher studies?
• Do you think you did the right thing by doing engineering?
• And few random questions…..

4. Empathy Map
Say Think
What’s going on
I need to earn money asap
Girls get jobs very easily
I might do MBA after 3
years
When can I own a car of
my own
Now I need to learn
Java, C, C++
I need to join Computer
courses
Do Feel
Frustrated, No Job
No use of engineering degree, they are
now learning Java and C++
Perception about girls
getting job easily
Ready to join any
discipline to earn money
Demotivated
Willing to move down to
any city for job
Not confident of getting a
job
Sending CV to all possible
channels for job
Reducing their external
cost
Education System doesn't
guarantee job
Only Exceptional gets job
easily after graduation
Learning the cost and
revenue side of life
Ready to join even as
technical assistant
Jumping to all possible
walk-in interviews
Not happy with their
engineering course choices
Blaming the Government for
no jobs

5. Problem Statement
• Not clear about what they want in their life is it money or knowledge?
• Now its money as they have completed their engineering and willing to earn money through non-
engineering subjects also.

6. Thank You.