{"id":26172,"date":"2026-03-23T11:53:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T15:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/innovationhub\/?page_id=26172"},"modified":"2026-03-24T11:14:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T15:14:23","slug":"our-hiring-process-the-ideathon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/innovationhub\/our-hiring-process-the-ideathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Hiring Process &#8211; The Ideathon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<p>OUR HIRING PROCESS<\/p>\n\t<p>The Innovation Hub&#8217;s toolkit for what to expect and help to prepare at every stage.<\/p>\n<h1>\n\t\tTHE IDEATHON\n\t<\/h1>\n\t<h2>What it is<\/h2>\n<p>The Ideathon is an in-person design challenge to learn more about how you work in a team and introduce you to the iHub&#8217;s working style. This event is intended to give you an opportunity to immerse yourself in our working environment and demonstrate your collaborative skills using design thinking. <strong>The event is 90 minutes in length.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>What we&#8217;re looking for<\/h2>\n<p>While we&#8217;re looking to evaluate whether our work is a good fit for you using this design challenge, we also want to give you the first-hand opportunity to learn about how we do design thinking. We encourage you to come with an open mind and to engage with other applicants. Because it&#8217;s a design challenge modelled on a real issue, there&#8217;s no right or wrong answer. We&#8217;d like to see what creative solutions you can come up collaboratively within your group.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Tips for success<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Be yourself and don&#8217;t be afraid to let your personality shine!<\/li>\n<li>Think about your strengths and work with your team to meaningfully contribute to the design challenge.<\/li>\n<li>Reflect on the questions you want to ask the hiring team during the Q&amp;A portion of the event.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/innovationhub\/files\/2026\/03\/Ideathon-2.png\" alt=\"Ideathon\" title=\"Ideathon\" \/>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\n<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nOUR HIRING PROCESS The Innovation Hub&#8217;s toolkit for what to expect and help to prepare at every stage. THE IDEATHON What it is The Ideathon is an in-person design challenge to learn more about how you work in a team&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/innovationhub\/our-hiring-process-the-ideathon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Our Hiring Process &#8211; The Ideathon&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/innovationhub\/our-hiring-process-the-ideathon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Our Hiring Process &#8211; The Ideathon&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":490,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26172"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26203,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26172\/revisions\/26203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/innovationhub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}