Edward Jones
As an intern for Edward Jones, I had the opportunity of gaining new design skills within Human Resources and also by networking and meeting professionals around the firm. Projects I worked on were split in two distinct categories: a PowerPoint presentation for HR's Lunch and Learn event and a series of SharePoint sites. SharePoint sites were specifically made for Talent Acquisition, Contingent Workforce, and a general introductory website on SharePoint site building that the department could use for learning the program.
What you see below is the SharePoint Knowledge Base I created for the department. Once the final draft was completed, it served as a great showcase of all the knowledge I've gained from working with SharePoint and my general process for site creation.
Creating this site in specific started with me learning about SharePoint by watching several videos and reading various articles about using the program. With this specific Knowledge Base, its conceptualization came about through frequent meetings with SharePoint team for HR. This group was made up of professionals around the department who were leaders or wanted to learn the program and two high-level leaders who were in charge. Any knowledge we all learned was shared at weekly meetings, and I had direct meetings with the two leaders to show them any progress I made on this site.
Once I gathered all the information I could and consulted with the group, I proceeded to sketch up some general layouts for widgets and information. The group and leaders were key to this part of the process since they helped refine some of my ideas and strengthened the content within the site. After the drawings were done and approved I went ahead and pieced a general version of the site together. This draft was also tweaked with feedback and later customized with proper branding, essential content, and visuals that brought it to life and made it more complete. Testing was used throughout the site's creation and pointed towards what areas could be improved and which portions worked best.
After the final draft was fully designed, tested, and approved, the leaders and group presented it to other leaders and professionals within HR to unveil the final product and show them how to use it. Once this presentation ended, this site was fully rolled-out to the department and workers were added to the page to use it as a resource for building their own websites. Not only did the department find it beneficial to have this, but it also helped ease the transition from the internal sites they had before over to SharePoint, which was a completely new program. These themes also applied to the other sites I created, where it made transitioning files over more convenient for the HR teams and made a new, central place for them to collaborate, share, and update files. It was also quite a beneficial experience on my end as I learned how to customize and design SharePoint sites, collaborate with a team, collect data, listen to feedback, apply any edits, and test a project to made sure it was successful.
