Staff Bios
This was one of the few projects where my degree took center stage. It's also a project where I got to dabble into project management, data collection and survey skills I acquired through the many sociology courses I took during my undergrad.
In this project, I was tasked with majorly overhauling all of our current Staff profiles with the objectives of making them all more uniform, thorough, engaging, and human. In order to achieve this, I first created a model that achieved all of these aims, which served as a rough template. I then created a Google submission form with questions that would satisfy my template in order to streamline the process of collecting responses. At the time of this project's initiation we had over 40 active staff profiles, which meant my form needed to be efficient enough to a.) provide me with enough details as possible and b.) get 40+ people to fill it out and submit in a timely manner. I made sure to honor the "humanize" objective by allowing a degree of liberty with the more personal details my model included by providing a list of prompts to the respondent, which they could then choose their favorite. This resulted in a more diverse array of bios, joined with enough threads of unity without reading as robotic.
I managed these bios through Google Sheets: crossing off submissions as I completed them, pasting them into a Google Docs table with columns that tracked their individual progress such as its distribution and subsequent approval by the respondent. Once a bio was approved, I manually updated the staff member's profile on our website.
This project was so successful that the office continues to use my model, submission form, spreadsheets and checklists to craft the profiles of all new hires.
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submission Form
Project management Process
