During the UX Design course, my group chose the challenge of creating a solution where we would help young people from Favelas ( Brazilian Slums ) to get their first job.
4 Months. October 2021 - February 2022
Fernanda Cavenaghi, Gisele Martins, Renan Iha and Tamires Pereira.
In Brazil, there is prejudice against young people from Favelas, especially when they start in the job market.
We started the process wondering if these young people would be interested in what we call Commom Professions such as engineering, veterinary, law, and so forth, rather than working as Digital Influencers.
We went through all the stages of discovery and definition, and we found out that 97% of the young people interviewed were interested in Common Professions. Therefore, due the need to help their families financially, 95% of those young people already had a job (the vast majority of them worked in their community).
For them, the difficulty was not to get a job, but to do what they liked and wanted to, in order to pursue a career. The young people interviewed in the focus groups reported that they chose Common Professions because they wanted to give their family members a better life and they did not have much knowledge about other occupations.
With the information obtained during the research, we concluded that due to its hectic routine and its old-generation cellphones that had little memory, creating an app would not be a good option. As a starting point, we discovered that Instagram was the most used social network by those young people, so we chose to use this application for our solution.
Therefore, we created the profile "Trampar com o q?", with content that will be made available (vacancies, courses, tips, and so forth.) to help young people from Favelas in the search for a dream job, as well as Lives and conversation circles with professionals who will be able to give them some tips and mentorships, all in a practical, simple and interactive way!
We created a design style guide to ensure uniformity in implementation and consistency in the brand experience.
I feel very fortunate to have worked on a social project with the potential to help a lot of young people.
I intend to keep working on this project even after I finish the course.
Some lessons I learned from this project: