Increasing Student Job Acceptances by Teaching Intangible Skills

1. Increasing Student Job Acceptances by Teaching Intangible Skills International Oregonians Ashlyn Dines Bill Xu Nick Inouye Ryan Langston Sarah Lindner

4. Where we’re going... Need: Gain intangible skills to increase employment Roadblocks: Student time and consistency Solution: Two day event with workshops

5. Problem solving Decision making Management

7. Need Statement LCB needs to find another way for students to gain intangible skills in order to increase student employment at graduation.

9. The prototype asked students: • To solve business problems for a coffeeshop • If they could envision using intangible skills in the coffee shop Slinging coffee or gaining experience?

10. Solution Opportunity to practicedecision making, problem solving, and management Weekend long event Students participate in workshops that correspond to their major

11. Reposition a product for Nike?!

12. Solution Benefits: Hands-on Outside of the classroom Brings LCB concentrations together Solves prototype problems by: Reduces student time commitment Keeps problems consistent

13. Implementation

14. Total budget: $14,000 Room reservations: $0 Catering: $11,000 Marketing & Incentives: $3,000

15. Where we’ve been... Need: Gain intangible skills to increase employment Roadblocks: Student time and consistency Solution: Two day event with workshops