EmpowerHer- an Universal Hub

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  EmpowerHer Mentorship

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  Mentorship Opportunities Page

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  Mentorship Subpage Sample

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  Recommended Jobs Page

Inspiration

According to the American Society for Training and Development, 75% of executives have reported mentorship being essential to their career and personal development. Inspired by Nuzhat's keynote, and drawing from personal experiences, we know that job searching and personal development can be difficult enough for anyone, especially for college-aged women and gender minorities who are just starting their careers and also for those who are older and looking to re-enter the workforce. EmpowerHer Mentorship bridges the age gap and alleviates imposter syndrome for women and gender minorities, providing a safe, inclusive web experience to find woman-to-woman mentorship in career, wellness, and finance.

What it does

The platform acts as a universal hub, facilitating connections between mentors and mentees for mentorship purposes. It offers a user-friendly interface for users to connect, seek mentorship, and explore job opportunities tailored to their skills and interests. Additionally, Figma wireframes aid in prototyping our website, showcasing recommended jobs, and offering mentorship across various categories such as employment, wellness, and finance.

How we built it

We started with desk research regarding the importance of mentorship in many aspects of life, focusing our scope on supporting women and gender minorities through career, wellness, and financial mentorship resources, three areas of life this demographic is highly interested in. Next, we created a list of key features to prioritize. Then, we created low-fidelity wireframes of potential layouts in Figma and then moved on to refined high-fidelity compositions. Finally, we prototyped the experience using Figma's prototyping controls.

Challenges we ran into

Time constraints, finalizing our project scope, and not being able to conduct user testing to run additional iterations.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Within a short period, we efficiently created a prototype with an intuitive UI for an application that caters to diverse mentorship areas like wellness, employment, and finance. Through teamwork and in-depth discussions on mentorship options, we acquired a thorough understanding, facilitating the development of a robust solution prototype. This was the first hackathon for 2 of our team members, so we are proud to have built something cool together that is accessible and supports women and gender minorities!

What we learned

Time management, collaborating effectively with new people we didn't know before the event, a better understanding of how to create a high-fidelity prototype using Figma, and gathering research to back up design decisions.

What's next for EmpowerHer

In future iterations of EmpowerHer, we'd like to add more career planning features such as daily career milestone tasks, and build out the community tab with short articles, course suggestions, woman-friendly financing/trading suggestions, and videos related to career, wellness, and financial success. Following WiCHacks, our goal is to advance the website beyond the prototype stage using React or Angular for front-end, relational database and Java or Python as our backend, necessitating a learning curve for these frameworks to enhance interactions. Additionally, we intend to enhance the inclusivity of our mentorship program.

Built With

• figma
• google-docs