Joanna wants to gain work experience without needing an undergraduate degree so she is not seen as lacking. Some ideas proposed include summer internships, job rotations between industries during college, creating experience groups to teach skills, and online mentoring between people from different backgrounds. The goal is for Joanna to learn without feeling like she is falling behind others. Suggestions involve travel programs combining school, culture and experience or working part-time and studying part-time. The document also advocates showing career paths of those without degrees through magazines and sharing stories of how life experiences rather than degrees changed careers.

1. Ideate
Ana Maria Martinez-Conde Villar
August/2013

2. Recent under graduated worker, that is already enrolled in a graduation program
Joanna needs a way to feel free of responsibilities that are dictated by society but in a way
that she doesn’t feel getting behind other people
Getting behind other people is seen as not having much diplomas, instead of work
experience
Problem Statement

3. New ways of having
work experience
without needing
undergraduated
diploma and getting
noticed by it
Summer internship
Job Rotation
“Advisor” group of
people that do some
work for experience
Facebook groups that
finds problems in other
areas of work to get
some experience
Job rotation during
college between some
industries and areas
Creation of “experience
group” that teaches new
people the hard learning in
some easy steps
Implement on industries and
brands some reward for
people that go across sectors
and areas
Use some on-line tool
to get people from
different background to
know each other
Create a mentoring tool
so people can learn
from each other
Make some groups with
VPs to discuss about the
importance os
experience and share it
with other via a
webpage

4. Learning without the
feeling of getting
behind
Travel learning – school
+ culture + experience
Change of seats
between countries
(between industries
and areas)
E-learning inside the
company – with “real
life” experience in
other fields
Creation of extra projects at the same area that you work,
but to work at different stuff (market, area…)
Creation of groups
between companies
that share different
learning at different
fields
Working for the morning
(untill 12h) and learning at
the afternoon (until 18h)
Using lunch time for
learning – each day
someone could make
some speech of small
learning that changes
life
Complementary work
and study agenda
-Work – Monday to
Wednesday
- Study – Thursday to
Saturday
Creation of a channel
where you ask what you
want to know and
people write down
what they know the
best – the channel
makes the correlation
and show you how you
can make it better

5. Diplomas are not that
cool
Pictures are cooler
than diplomas – taking
some photos of extra
achievments could
change this feeling
Creation of some
channel where you put
photos of
achievements instead
of diplomas (linkedin)
A learning platform with Business cases
presented by people who never went to
college
A learning platform with Business cases
presented by people who did something
very different in college
Graduation vs profession  show
people the difference between it
with “learning from life
experience”  cases
How my boss change my
career  try to create some
platform where people say
how people changed their life
and career and not college
How many
CEO/VP have
graduation
diploma or MBA?
Show them on
magazines and
explore it

6. Creation of a magazine
where only people
who didn’t went to
college can write and
show their cases
Explore the difference
among different
backgrounds 
change your job for 1
week with someone
totally different
Bring one student per
week to be your “soul”
and be with you for
the whole work day
routine

7. Ideate
Ana Maria Martinez-Conde Villar
August/2013