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The first Africa's time-bound work experience app for students and young professionals
Intern-app coined from “Internship” and “Applications”, presents a simple yet fastest way to launch a career that one has always desired. Best part? Absolutely no connection or third party influence is needed! It aims to match skilled African talents to leading global companies and organizations through a temporary work experience program ranging from 3 to 12 months. Up to 10 company brands will be sampled based on the data input and determined by two key facets: Course of study and personal interest like painting, writing, sculpting, et al. A click on submit button will ensure that the completed work experience application is distributed to the selected companies at the same time. Users can work remotely or on-site while their monthly stipends of $100 or more for students and $300 or more for young professionals will be escrowed via a payment wallet embedded in the cross-platform app which links a user's profile to his/her bank account. Also, there will be interactivity mode which allows a user to communicate with a fellow user or employer.
We partner with leading companies and organizations worldwide to codesign a workplace learning experience for students and graduates or young professionals to take a chance on themselves, utilizing available career mapping tools to make informed decisions about a working life they find more fulfilling. The technical solution design will help achieve sustainable development goal 8 of UNDP which is full and productive employment, and decent work for all men and women.
Define three specific objectives that you would like to achieve with your proposal.
At InternApp, we are poised to achieve the following:
- Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 8 of UNDP which is decent work and economic growth
- Intertwine the relationship between academia and industry
- Empower more people to ignite their dream careers
What problems (particularly in value chain competitiveness and global disruption) are your community’s stakeholders facing due to the Covid-19 pandemic?
From personal experiences to weekly potential user surveys, I compiled the problems community stakeholders are facing at present:
- Massive retrenchment and paycheck slice of employees ushered in by the novel Covid19
- Difficulty in choosing a workplace that is in consonance with the field of interest
- Distance from place of residence to workplace is usually farther apart
- Connection or third party influence is often required to secure a work placement or job
What minimum viable solution(s) are you proposing to address the challenge(s) in your community?
We refined the solutions thoroughly and validated it to meet the market needs as represented below;
- Companies and organizations affected by the global health crisis will benefit from our very affordable time-bound talents to help mitigate their financial loses
- For each application, workplaces are sieved based on two key facets - course of study and personal interest
- Option to work remotely or on-site will be available to accommodate everyone
- No third party influence is required as we are connecting leading companies and organizations via the app
Share your story (your narrative)
Prior to the global health pandemic, securing work experience placement as a student in Nigeria was daunting. For me it was worse! I had to think of my ideal work place: Employee-friendly; close to place of residence; timely disbursement of allowances and where my field of study was in line with company’s practice. However, I encountered a major problem — one that left me bewildered. Almost all the front desk officers I had met confessed to me that I needed to have a connection or a third party influence to boost my chances of being considered for a spot. Some were kind enough to show me cartons that contained stack of torn papers which was internship letters and resume of people that did not have connections.
As companies orchestrate massive retrenchment and administer paycheck slice of their employees due to the global health crisis, Internapp was hatched to help mitigate their financial loses.
Please provide any additional relevant information that you would like to share.
The market size is perched at $100B in Africa which constitute the highest population of unemployed people in the world.
These are our lists of program involvements:
- Internapp has been selected for ITU magnet accelerator program in Turkey.
- Internapp got accepted into Mozilla Builders Incubator Program.
- Joined United Nations youth SDGs network in Nigeria for Decent Work campaign.
- Member of Commonwealth Youth Council
Your Final Proposal for challenge
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Hello. Hope you're good. Nice work! But how is this different from jobberman.com ?
HI. Interesting and the need is clearly established and important. It would be useful to see more about the solution. What stage are you currently at. Is there a MVI? does it target all areas of employment? how does it work for the casual labour which is so common? thanks a lot
How are you going to implement this solution considering the new realities of the covid-19 pandemic.
Hi I think your idea is very interesting, fun and innovative. I support you 100%. Stay motivated and keep the ideas coming. See you at the top.
You almost can't avoid third party influencers. I've also seen sites like indeed and employers do like assessment test and run background checks to make sure their skills are up to date and I haven't heard you mentioned any of these. What sets your idea part from these guys?
Your plan is indeed great. Congratulations is in order! How would you be partnering with the Companies and organizations?
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Hello Israel, that’s a great idea you have there. You presented your idea well. In order to refine the presentation of your idea, I have a few proposals for you.
1. For the start, conduct a pilot project which focuses on Nigeria, considering that you have a good mastery of the situation in Nigeria. This will permit you to easily test your prototype and make corrections if necessary before spreading to Africa. When this is done, backup your problem definition with some clear statistics like the number of schools in Nigeria, the number of students looking for internship and the companies that have internships to offer. You can narrow down to a state like Lagos, if Nigeria is too broad.
2. The stipend the interns or young professionals receive depends on the company that gives them an offer, is it important for you to specify the amount of their remuneration? Or is any compensation going to be given to you as the middle man?
3. What are some of the schools and companies you have talked with already? You can just give an idea if you don't want to cite names..... Are their conditions favourable?
4. You haven’t been easy with the third parties; how are you going to be different from them? How do you intend to get funding for the sustainability of your work?
5. Make your citations as precise as possible in order to ease verification and highlight the validity of your points.
This is what I have for now. Remember we are trying to make the project better so that we can get to as many companies and students/young professionals as possible while using your idea to minimizing the impact of Covid-19.
Your project has a really great potential and it's simple and implementable. However, you didn't state what your business model is and how you can stay sustainable?
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Hi Israel, how do you make money from this project as job site is really competitive. In the sametime how do you measure your impact .
Hello Israel,
How do you position yourself to compete with the already existing platforms offering same or similar solutions? What plans do you have in place to gain big market share of the $100 billion available market.
Awesome idea Israel! The future of work is digital and the Intern-app is a great step forward in providing a financial safety net to the average student and young professional by connecting them to the global job market. Have you considered how talent onboarded onto your platform can be connected with local Nigerian startups, and MSMEs for short-term gigs i.e research, financial modeling, accounting, etc.
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Good jobs! in my opinion
getting youth on the work experience bandwagon is essential, great initiative. What I have learnt is that the pain of these market places is stimulating supply and demand on both sides (students and companies). What secret sauce do you intend to use for that?
I have reviewed your submission and find it an inspiring Idea and proposal to assist in a meaningful way. I would like to offer the following suggestions to enhance your submission.
Upfront if you have companies engaged in platform, name them
There has already been great feedback on proposal, I would contend that more illustrative examples of walking a person and an organization through the process might be helpful
It might be good to illustrate success stories, measures of success of successful users and companies
In time of Covid and work from home – nice application that may have more buy-in now
Is also internapp also a significant benefit not only for companies but for the participants – elaborate on how both groups can benefit from being part of this
Like to see a bit more detail on how the app works for the company and the user as part of the pitch
Mike
Good work! If this is open for all skill, how can critical intellectual properties be protected?
All accepted work experience seekers or interns will sign a non-disclosure agreement with their host companies.
Internapp is a work experience marketplace app composed of two sides - demand side and supply side.
Demand side is made up of leading companies and organizations whereas the supply side consist of work experience seekers or interns. For the platform to be appealing and robust, the demand side should not be less than the square root of supply side. For instance, if the platform has 64 users, the companies it onboards should not be less than 8.
What is the big picture and vision?
1. Full and productive employment: Internapp guarantees employment that pays above poverty line.
2. College partnerships: Will put companies and organizations in close collaboration with colleges for research work purposes, and helping schools to refine skills and trends to integrate into their academic curricular timeously.
3. Give students early exposure to the workplace and career guidance.
4. Networking: Provides African youth an opportunity to build networks via interactive mode on the app.
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Status label added: Submission completed
As a member of Commonwealth Youth Council, we will be receiving support to onboard leading companies in the commonwealth regions of the world.
For more enquires, and partnership, please send email to info@internapp.co
We are poised to make our work experience marketplace app to stay bouyant by ensuring that its demand side - composed of companies and organizations is not less than the square root of the supply side (which embodies students and young professionals)
Mathematically, Demand side ≥ √Supply side
We have also been selected to receive assistance in onboarding funded African startups on the Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Network.
Status label added: Idea under jury review
The idea has been progressed to the next milestone.