Teagan O’Carroll, 18, has worked for two years as a coordinator at the James Anthony Salon in Oak Park. During that time she has trained a few new employees.
But she was struck by how long it took to get some people proficient in their new jobs.
“I just found that the onboarding process and the training experience was incredibly inefficient and it took way longer than it should have, not necessarily for me, but for a lot of people that I personally trained,” O’Carroll said. “Traditional training methods like listening to your manager talk for hours and taking notes just is not effective for everyone.”
So when O’Carroll, of Oak Park, had to come up with an idea for a business for the Business Incubator class she took this year as a senior at Oak Park and River Forest High School, she thought of developing an interactive onboarding and training app that would customize the onboarding and training process.
