Research Plan 3: LinkedIn Recommendation - hackforla/internship GitHub Wiki

Research Plan 3: LinkedIn Recommendation

Research Date:

  • Research Year: 2021
  • Participant Type: Hack for LA Volunteers
  • Interview Type:

Research Roadmap (this research is a subset of this roadmap)

Summary of Research

We need to create a research plan to understand HackforLA volunteer who has either received or did not received recommendation letter on LinkedIn. List of prospective participants for interviews has been created, along with an interview question guide. However, timeline for recruiting participants, administering interviews, and synthesizing data has not yet begun. A timeline needs to be established and then recruitment of participants should be the next steps.

Question

What are the ways participants (volunteers) were able to receive a recommendation letter?

Participant Type

  • Other

Purpose

  • Learning different strategies that volunteer took to receive the recommendation letter
  • Understand how these volunteers were able to strengthen their communication and relationship with recommenders
  • Collect volunteer’s thoughts and feelings about recommendation feature on Linkedin
  • Understand the pain points for those who did and did not receive a recommendation

Methods

  • Screener Survey and Criteria
  • Semi structured interview, remote, via zoom
  • Affinity mapping analysis - Miro or Figma jam

Current Status

All Issues

Outstanding task items

  • See Issue Research Plan: LinkedIn Recommendation #147.
    Participant recruitment, interviewing, synthesis of interview data, report
  • We might end up categorizing the LinkedIn profiles with information about the type of person giving the review, but we have not yet established that it will be necessary at this point. (see spreadsheet for example)

Assets

Google Drive folders

Research Plan (including Audience Identification documentation)

Scripts

Interview recordings & Transcripts

Synthesis (Miro or Figjam)

Presentation of Findings

Action Items Spreadsheet

Issues that are dependent on Research being completed


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