9A - Testing the Hypothesis Part 2

Inside The Boundary	Outside The Boundary
College and potentially even High school upperclassmen with need for experience.	Non students or student without the need for experience.
Need to gain quality job, and real world experience pertaining to their major.	Do not need the experience in order to find a quality job and do not have the graduation requirement.
Experience either necessary to find a good job or Internship is required for college graduation. Looking for an internship that also allows them to get paid.	·         Already have a job that is allowing employee to get degree simultaneously. ·         Found quality experience on their own without needing help from their school. ·         Job field for some reason does not require experience. ·         Major program already has a similar program.

So far in this process I have been able to eliminate certain people groups as potential customers. In doing so I have narrowed down my potential users to High school upperclassmen and college students. The reason for eliminating young high school students is that many are not old enough to work as well as them not knowing what they want to do in the future. With that said I decided in order to get feedback it is only necessary to interview students and former students who may have loved a program like this. It is also important to interview those inside of potential companies that could help create these partnerships. In my interviews I was able to gain great information. I was able to find students with multiple reasons on why they wouldn’t be a potential consumer of this need. They are have commonalities of being students that will, in the near future, be needing a “real” job but did not need the internship idea we are trying to “sell.” Those reasons have been listed in the table below. Where my need differs from others is that it is not a profit driven product or service. Instead it is a service that would be created through partnerships between businesses and universities or high schools. This can be beneficial for both the students and the companies as a recruiting process.