The stakeholder needs to recruit young professionals better prepared for the job market. Some proposed solutions include reforming university curriculums, offering internships and case studies, and providing preparation courses for new hires. The most practical idea is to ask candidates what they would do in daily work situations during interviews. The most disruptive is reforming university curriculums. The favorite is offering preparation courses for new professionals.

1. Problem: The stakeholder needs a way to recruit/hire young
professionals more prepared for the job market
1) Idea generation
What are the most obvious solutions for this problem?
• Recruit at the most serious/prestigious universities
• Reform the curriculum at most universities/courses.
• Make an agreement with some universities that have good curriculum courses
• Make it mandatory that part of the teachers has work experience (not only
academic)
• Do special lectures about the company at the universities
• Have lectures and case studies of companies at the classes
• Comprise case studies related to company’s daily work at the recruitment
dynamics
• Make internships mandatory for many graduations
• Offer case studies analysis for students as an extended curriculum in
partnership with universities
• Ask the candidates to submit a case studies analysis when applying for a
position
• Specify at the job description the need for critical reasoning profile
• Offer a preparation course (some weeks) for the new professionals
• Designate professionals that will monitor the young professionals during an
initial period giving feedbacks.
• Submit the young professionals to a very deep interview to identify their
weaknesses
• Publicize cases and tips for daily work at the boards of universities
• Students must talk to people that works at the area/company they want to go.
• Students must read/study a lot about the company they are applying for.
• Students must identify the profile and skills the companies want try to
improve/learn.
What can you add, remove or modify from those initial solutions?
• After identifying the new professionals weaknesses, create a development plan
for each one.
• Besides the lectures from the companies, the company could organize students
visits to explain and show how is the environment and work.
• Submit daily problem to candidates’s analysis at the recruitment process
• Have a recruitment professionals able to identify the candidates skills.
• During the preparation course for the new professionals, comprise analytical
and stressful tasks form the daily work and orient young professionals how to
deal with them.
• Have the preparation course as a priority at the company.
• Have processes and explanation for every task the new professionals will
make
How would a 5-year-old child solve the problem?

2. • Select only the best candidates
• Train the young professionals
• Have do’s and don’ts for the new professionals
• Bring teachers to companies so they can observe the daily work and situations
to explain and use at classes
• Publicize some examples of how a young professional should be
• Publicize some examples of how a young professional should NOT be
• Ask the candidates what would they do in many daily work situations during
interview
How would you solve the problem if you had an unlimited budget?
• Create extra curricular practical courses during university period with case
studies and daily work understanding
• Create special courses/labs for students or even young professional that want
to be more prepared for the work
• Designate coaches at the universities to analyze and develop the students
• Create a free publication with simple case studies, tips and experiences to
hand out.
• Create a TV program with simple case studies, tips and experiences from
many professionals at many companies.
• Organize visits from all the universities/professional courses to as many
companies as possible.
• Submit every student and candidate to deep test to identify their weaknesses
and a way to address them
• Develop an intensive program for young professionals that will teach them the
daily work and situation before giving them responsibilities.
• Work on a development plan for each student.
How would you solve the problem without spending any money?
• Ask volunteers to act like a coach to students
• Ask volunteers to go to universities and explain the daily work and talk about
their experience
• Ask employees to be volunteers and work on development plan for the young
professionals
• Ask to companies to send employees to present to students real case studies
from their companies at universities and common places
• Ask for employees that are very good at something to teach the new ones.
How would you solve this problem if you had control over the laws of nature
(think invisibility, teleportation, etc.)?
• I would stop the clock and explain/teach all the students, candidates the
practical things they need to know.
• I would create a course that would be possible to all the young professionals to
watch at the same time at any channel.
• I would develop a program that would show on real time the learnings and
mistakes that happen on every company.
• I would send every student to the companies to observe the real world during
classes.

3. 2) Idea selection
the most practical idea (one that could be easily implemented)
• Ask the candidates what would they do in many daily work situations during
interview
the most disruptive idea (one that would make a huge impact, regardless of how
feasible or affordable it is)
• Reform the curriculum at most universities/courses.
your favorite idea (one idea that you are excited about for whatever reason... you
don’t have to justify why)
• Offer a preparation course (some weeks) for the new professionals