Round 3:
- Again, I interviewed resident assistants around UF. I asked similar questions, but clarified previous questions that were confusing and eliminated questions from which I was getting similar answers. Here are the questions I asked:
- How do you typically come up with program ideas?
- Have you had any great program ideas that you weren't able to do? Why?
- For your residents, what are the best types of programs an RA can host?
- Are there additional resources that would be helpful in planning programs?
- What is your reaction to this?
- What other decision factors would be helpful?
- Interviews are below.
- I learned that interviews are still really hard, even after doing ten of them! What surprised me the most were that most of the RAs thought my idea was really good! After they finished reading the card, I could see in their face that they liked the idea, also most of them said as much. One of the males said that he thought this would take the creativity out of the process, but personally I think if you want to be creative, then you don't have to use this, but if you aren't a creative person it will help you plan great programs! I also learned more categories that people would want programs to be filtered by, so I will sort that into the program.
Hi Emily, well you seem like a natural for this job and also very creative! I really like how you've found a process in your job as RA that needs to function better and more efficiently. Also, the point you made about the male RA not wanting to lose touch with his creative side, I would tend to think that efficiency would be key here...which comes into play with any new product or service. As I was watching your interviews I was wondering what experience you had with computer programming, then I read your post for the second round of interviews and learned that you need to align with a technology expert. Be sure you work on that important connective resource as it's the backbone of this great concept! Good luck :-)
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ReplyDeleteGreat job on your customer interviews. You definitely seem confident going up to people to ask about your business idea. That is very needed to get feedback. I am sure the reactions from the RAs definitely felt rewarding to know your idea is something that others think could be something awesome too. Keep up the goof work.
Hey Emily,
ReplyDeleteGreat job on your customer interviews. You definitely seem confident going up to people to ask about your business idea. That is very needed to get feedback. I am sure the reactions from the RAs definitely felt rewarding to know your idea is something that others think could be something awesome too. Keep up the goof work.
Emily, I think what you had was a great idea for RA's. No offense to some RA's, but I have seen lack of creativity before (not a horrible thing) but your idea helps make their job easier and provides them great ideas. Your interviews seemed really smooth and comfortable talking to the RA's. The questions were on point, and you had a solid proposal to start with. There are new RA's every year too so you will always have them for this idea! Great job. Check out my interviews at http://kingkion.blogspot.com/2016/02/interviewing-customers-no-3.html
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