Research Plan 8 : Mentor Intake Interviews

Research Plan 8 : Mentor Intake Interviews

Research Date:

This research needs to be conducted and completed in the first week of the mentorship program.

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

• Wiki page: Mentor Research Overview
• Roadmap document: TWE22: Research Roadmap: Mentor

Summary of Research

Question

• What are the mentors seeking to gain/understand from participating in this program?
• Who signed-up as potential mentors in this program? What do their profiles/personas look like?
• What are the mentorship styles and patterns of participating mentors?
• What are their mentorship goals? What is their confidence and preparedenes in achieving these goals?
• How are mentors impacted by the recruitment process and post recruitment phase?

Purpose

The goal of this Mentor Intake Interviews is to emulate the Intern Intake Interviews and is to be conducted during the initial days of the mentorship program.

The goal is to collect more background on the mentors on the following:

• Motivation
• Expectations
• Who mentored them
• How they find mentors
• Mentorship style preference
• Confidence
• Preparedness
• How they work on their LinkedIn (when I need a job, all the time, etc.)

Methods

Interviews to be conducted over Zoom that include a range of qualitative and quantitative questions. To be video recorded and transcribed, as well as recorded in a Google Sheets questionnaire.

Current Status

• The mentorship program research team has decided not to do an intake interview during their initial meetings for the year 2022.
• Due to the compressed timeframe of this project and limited resources, the mentorship research team has decided to use only the following methods as part of their methodology in 2022: Intake surveys at the beginning, then deploying post-onboarding & weekly surveys, Exit surveys and finally end with the exit interviews.
• This will ensure increased and maximum efficiency for the Mentorship Research Program and will keep up with the compressed timeframe of this project.
• The goal in the upcoming years, however, is to include these Mentor Intake Surveys as a vital part of this Mentor Research Program’s Methodology.

All Issues

• Label: Feature: RP008

Outstanding task items

• Research Plan
• Interview Script (range of qualitative and quantitative questions)
  • Review and finalize Interview Script with UXR Lead and PM
  • Transfer Interview Script to Google Sheets questionnaire
• Data collection
  • Schedule one-on-one user interviews with mentors
  • Obtain Informed Consent (send consent form prior to interview, while scheduling)
  • Conduct interviews (to be conducted during the first week of the mentorship program and immediately post mentor onboarding)
• Data Analysis
• Data Presentation

Assets

Google Drive folders

• Type folder: Mentor
• RP Folder: RP8

Research Plan (including Audience Identification documentation)

• There is no Research Plan
  • Initial Planning for Research Plan 8 is documented in the TWE'22 Mentor Research Roadmap document, Page 8-9:
  • TWE22: Research Roadmap: Mentor

Scripts

• Informed Consent Form
• Summer 2022 Internship Mentor Interest Form

Interview recordings & Transcripts

Synthesis (Miro or Figjam)

Presentation of Findings

Action Items Spreadsheet

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Related Wiki Pages

• Research Home page
• Mentor Research Overview
• UX Research Guides Templates
• Research Output Overview