Project Manager
2 Project Managers, 5 Design Consultants
3 months (Sep 2024 - Dec 2024)
AR/VR Design, User Research, Figma
It's no secret that job recruitment weighs heavy on many college students. Many find themselves investing lots of time into applying to various companies, only to be unsure of how to confront the coveted interview round.
Epic Hire is a recruitment platform committed to making the recruitment process smoother for both the students and employers involved. Their mission is to bring the human back to hiring and is exemplified through their mobile app that allows students to showcase their lives and personalities beyond their resume.
In congruence with this mission, we pitched a partnership with Epic Hire that aims to create a product that ensures peak performance at job interviews by emerging the user in tailored interview prep using AR/VR.
Before laying out our contract with Epic Hire for the semester, we defined the following goals for our team:
Our partnership with Epic Hire will ran from late August to early December, during which we went through several sprints includeing research, data analysis, ideation, testing, and refinement.
Novel technologies like AI and AR/VR in our Epic Hire project enable exciting innovations, as we saw with our interview simulation avatar. The challenge is balancing innovation with stakeholder bandwidth while carefully assessing implementation costs before moving forward.
After working as a project manager for two contract projects, I can say with confidence that the key to a productive group is a positive attitude. As a leader, it is your job to not only make your team feel heard and valuable in your space, but to also get them excited about the work their doing.
Epic Hire's user base was ambitious college students looking for work opportunities, just like the group working to design it. While being in this demographic gave us access to a plethora of users to interview, it also forced us to think critically about how our own biases were informing our designs.
