Member Feature Page

[alexandrastubbs]

WORK IN PROGRESS

Short-form Overview

In order to increase equality in tech, Hack for LA wants to highlight underrepresented talent from the HfLA community, in an effort to increase chances of employment for these individuals.

Long-form Overview

At HfLA, we have an incredible pool of talent that is driven, eager to learn, and already trained for jobs across software development - product, design, development, and so on. At present, the projects cards are the only way to identify HfLA members and their areas of expertise. By creating a 'member feature page', we can can share the most important information on our members, making it easy for recruiters and hiring managers to identify talent for specific jobs.

This is a huge undertaking - both from a build perspective and in terms of maintenance. Therefore, before we devote too many resources, we'd like to prove it out with a 'pilot' of sorts. We will start with a small subset of our member pool and build an MVP. From there, we can determine if we are able to reach the KPIs we have set out to (defined below).

For the pilot, we would like to start by focusing on our Black members. Given the dialogue that is going on all around us, this will be an authentic & impactful way to step into the conversation AND prove out the value of this page. We will build the page to focus on our Black members, across projects, and then drive traffic to the page via email, cross-site linking, slack, social media accounts, and more.

Action Items

• Determine what details about a member would be featured
  • Github
  • Linkedin
  • Project(s)
  • Role on the team(s)
  • Recommendations from peers & leads
  • Open to opportunities (y/n)
  • Types of opportunities they are interested in
  • Industries of interest
  • Work they are most proud of
  • Interested in public speaking (y/n), if yes, details about what they speak on
  • How they would like to be contacted (email, Linkedin, contact forms, etc)
  • etc.
• Determine if we have identified all the necessary KPIs
• Determine if we have identified all the necessary Services

More information

KPIs:

• Employment success
  • percent starting new jobs
• Increase in number of visits to their Linkedin profile
  • current number of profile viewers in last 90 days
  • weekly update of number of profile viewers in last 90 days

• Number of people who contact for interviews/with interest
  • set up slackbot to ask if they have been contacted for interview on weekly basis
• Retweets/likes on Twitter for the page
• Visits to the page*
  • google analytics
• Engagement with the page (clicks, time spent on page)
  • google analytics

Ancillary Services Provided:

• Linkedin Coaching
• Weekly group resume updating (adding new skills or experiences to resume in affinity group setting)
• Interview prep
• Mock interviews
• Interview retrospective/recap
• Skill development coaching
• Professional development coaching (i.e. which project to step into next to round out skills/experience)

Resources/Instructions

Draft Research Plan

[alexandrastubbs]

Hi!

We are working on a project to increase opportunities for employment for select members. There is a full overview of the project and what we are hoping to achieve in this issue (above). We are still in the planning stages of this page/project and want to take a moment to ensure that we are moving in the right direction. Can you comment on this issue with the following information:

• Are you interested in being featured on this page? If not, can you share why?

• Is there any information missing that you think should be included on this page?

• Is there any information included that you don't think should be included on this page?

If you have any questions or comments, or have ideas on how to make this page more effective, please reach out.

[christina245]

I've started a draft. Let me know what feedback anyone has and what other info we need on there. I don't know what members we want to feature either.

[qiqicodes]

I've started a draft. Let me know what feedback anyone has and what other info we need on there. I don't know what members we want to feature either.

@christina245 If you put your current draft in the #hfla-site in our slack community and ask for feedback. We can move forward as a group.

[christina245]

Made new versions of the page on Figma.

[daniellex0]

@christina245 Can you please provide an update about the new version of your questions? Thanks!

[Sihemgourou]

@christina245
Please add update

1. Progress
2. Blockers
3. Availability
4. ETA

[Sihemgourou]

@daniellex0
Please remove their assignments if they don't answer anymore :)

If so, also put the issue back to the prioritized backlog

[7kram]

@alexandrastubbs The "Draft Research Plan" doc under resources is private. If you are the owner of this doc, can you please make it public? :)

I think determining what KPIs and ancillary services are provided should be a part of the action items for the issue

[ExperimentsInHonesty]

The file was in the old drive, I have made the drive view access for current pms. Anyone being assigned to this issue will need that access.

[ExperimentsInHonesty]

Metrics we could get if the member shared this info with us weekly. (consider using a form for weekly reporting)

What they see

Analytics: Private to you
Discover who's viewed your profile: X profile views
Check out who's engaging with your posts: X post impressions
See how often you appear in search results.: 246 search appearances

Example

[ExperimentsInHonesty]

Premium features
Keywords used to search
chart with weekly metrics for views
stats about companies, industries, locations viewing your profile

What they are missing (skills or words wise) against other candidates when they apply
Being able to message anyone
LinkedIn learning