Member Feature Page #656
Description
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
- 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)