Careerin Online Career Fair
Positions available: 10 students, individually or in teams Careerin is organizing online career fairs to connect tech talents open for new jobs and tech companies that are hiring. We noticed that lots of companies laid off staff because of COVID19 but there are still companies that are hiring. Careerin is a new startup that's using videos to help candidates learn more about tech companies, their mission, culture, and people in the teams so they can find the companies that they aligned with. During the online career fair, companies will have founders or hiring managers that talk about what their companies are about in videos and they will have online meeting sessions with candidates that are interested in joining them. Candidates can create a self-intro video on our platform that can be accessed by the companies that they are interested in, so they can tell their stories in person in the video instead of being another resume in the pile. Students will help us in organizing and running our monthly Careerin Tech online event. Roles include: Event sessions host - Identify and recruit speakers to share career insights or other topics in their roles (HR/Marketing/Sales/Software Engineering etc), host these online sessions by introducing their speakers if it's a webinar or interviewer if it's a fireside chat interview Job fair organizer - Reach out to tech companies that are hiring Marketing + PR - Event promotion in our social media channels, other tech communities, and tech medias Sponsorship - Reach out to potential sponsors to secure sponsorship for our events (professional firms, tech companies, etc)
Career Coaching Certification - Career Change, Selection and Job Transition
Internship Positions available: 20 students Career Change, Selection and Job Search Course Research and Development to develop full courses and or modules - mostly nontechnical elements. CareerNiche Inc. is a growing HR boutique transition firm that assists with Employee training, and coaching (both one on one and group coaching on zoom and with career masterminds). We want to assist in your career development to help support your future success in the Human Resources field or Training and Development specialties. these courses will help our corporate and individual clients with career job seeking, career transition, career change, career selection to find their dream jobs, career pivots and more. The Following are general qualifications and duties: We want students or interns to scope out through ideation, conceptualization and then actual execution of training plans for career transition courses. We completed the interview secrets course recently and it took several months for the course design and over 2 months to select videos, create quizzes and gamification and PowerPoints. You can choose to work in a small team of 2 to 3 other students or on your own doing business analysis with our "subject matter experts" (SMEs) and learning architect and managers. Do Marketing Research questions for B2C customers and Focus Groups on Zoom of preset potential prospects - marketing research with our 9 to 10 question process. Considering engagement concepts for employees. Do Research with our affiliate Joint Venture Business Partners that are part of our group to question them as to viability of new courses for our target audiences and if they will promote us to their list. Consider doing You can create content for the content for PowerPoints for live Zoom training as well and the Digital Courses online using HR and Career Transition best Practices for topic ranging from Job Search, to Career Selection to Mid-Career Career Change to Career Advancement and Promotions. You will learn the related LMS software fundamentals. All project depth of involvement will depend on the hours per week you are involved with us ,. We will try to direct you to the available internal Training and Development projects that pique your interest most if possible. Creation of class handouts including pre-class session prep questions' handouts, class pdf slides with notes area, post class HW workbook and or manual. Sample of P roject List to choose from: Project # 1 - We will need a Personal Branding Communications Course to be developed as a distinct project for career driven employees that are considering advancing for promotions or the job search. Project # 2 - We will create a new model for Career Selection and Change to assist younger and mid career professionals. Project # 3 - We have currently 6 core modules that we will build some of them into full courses. Interview Secrets Prep. Project # 4 - W e have currently 6 core modules that we will build some of them into full courses. The second core course would be Portfolio Development and Presentation is one example we will need to work on. Project # 5 - W e have currently 6 core modules that we will build some of them into full courses. The Third core course would be the Hidden Job Market and Networking is one example we will need to work on. Project # 6 - W e have currently 6 core modules that we will build some of them into full courses. The Fourth core course would be Resume and Cover letter Development. Project # 7 - W e have currently 6 core modules that we will build some of them into full courses. The Fifth would be Online Job Search Tools Masterclass is one example we will need to work on. Focus will be On LinkedIn.
Virtual Internship Opportunity: Sales
Number of individual positions available: 3 (teams or individually) Our organization is able to offer a virtual internship opportunity for 3 marketing students or teams. The primary focus for the student will be: Sales prospecting. Students develop a leads list from your recommended sources. Sales forecasting. Students will analyze your sales funnels and internal processes to develop recommendations for more accurate forecasting. Sales operations. Students review your sales processes and make recommendations in the area of operations to improve efficiency and increase conversion. Our goal at the end of this experience is: Help business extend their reach through prospecting sales methods which include developing leads and outreach to organizations and businesses of all sizes seeking new clients or hoping to maintain current client base using a self serve platform which can be used in-house by current business team or new employees. End clients will have the ability to manage their marketing and obtain analytics in real-time. Other duties the student may complete could include : Assist with outbound marketing campaigns or other prospecting strategy as needed; measure and report on the performance of these campaigns using tools such as (indicate tools used, eg. Hubspot, Google Sheets, Excel) Content development, including social posts, blog posts, LinkedIn articles, and website copy. We will plan to communicate with our virtual intern(s) using these communication tools: Riipen messaging, company slack, and email Primary contact : Melloney Campbell, Startup Peel Community Leader
7 - K-12 & Unschooling/SDE Graduates survey
Number of positions available: 1 team of 5 persons The UnschoolingSchool.com team is launching a project to synthesize the many sources of proof and evidence that Self-Directed Education (SDE) works and is an optimal way to educate children. We have partnered with Riipen.com to engage university and college students in short projects to help with the work of gathering and synthesizing the evidence. For more information about our amazing project click on the Resources Section. This project involves designing and conducting 2 multiple-choice surveys: 1. For Conventional System High School graduates and drops-out— to gather evidence that they would have benefited from a K-12 education that involved much more student agency. 2. For Unschoolers/Self-Directed Education participants-- to gather evidence that their SDE prepared them very effectively for post-secondary education and/or work Possible sources: 1. peers, FB, Insta, Student Unions/Association 2. ALPHA I & ALPHA II (Toronto), Windsor House Vancouver, ‘homeschooled’ Unschoolers (FB groups) Possible approach: - research ways to access the group - design survey methodology - conduct survey - synthesis and share results. We are looking for 5 people working as a team. Deliverable is an APA formatted report & creative sharing of the results, Tic Toc, Insta, YouTube, Twitter, etc. (details to be discussed prior to the start of the project) “Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.” – Khalil Gibran
SEO and Social Media Strategy
Positions available: 3 Our team is looking for a social media marketing wizard who can help us drive more traffic and improve our SEO positioning. The primary project requirements include: Keyword analysis to determine relevant search terms to our organization A strategy document to outline: Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) requirements to ensure our organization appears on the first page of Google for relevant keywords Work on website www.namastefitclub.com for SEO work Social media requirements to increase the number of followers/likes and share primarily Instagram. Create posts and perform research for optimizing Content Calendar Execution: Timely deployment of all our social media content to drive maximum traffic to our site using programs such as Hootsuite Creating engaging content for prominent media websites Working with tools and programs such as Facebook, social media crawlers to find info from email address such as Hubspot, salesforce, social animal We’re excited to work with students who can help us not only brainstorm, but also execute a strategy to achieve: To locate matching emails with user's Facebook accounts and add them as friends to engage on company profile This is a great project for students to prove their digital marketing expertise to future employers, as the impact of their work on this project can be easily measured and communicated.
Strategic Prospecting Plan
Positions available: 2 To become a proactive sales team, we need assistance developing an outreach process. We would like to equip our sales team with a plan that guides them in researching new prospects, identifying key contacts, and reaching out with compelling messages. We would like you to create a simple step-by-step strategy for prospecting in our target market. The project may include, but is not limited to: Identifying new potential accounts that align with our current customer base. Compiling relevant market information. Building a customizable outreach script. Creating a simple tracking framework, including metrics, for measuring outreach success. The final project deliverable is a report including research, analysis, and recommendations. It should assist our sales team in successfully prospecting within our target market with actionable recommendations that will increase sales conversions.
Article Writing
Positions available: up to 65 We would like students to help us with creating content that is aligned with our vision, mission, and sector. We will ensure the student has a clear understanding of what these elements are for our organization. During the spring and summer, the Antarctic Institute of Canada runs a program called Sharpen the Quill. The goal of the project is to develop student's writing and publication skills. During March and April, students will be expected to write 4 articles for us. These can be blogs, newspaper, or peer-reviewed articles. We have places to publish the articles for free on peer-reviewed publications. Students will be expected to: Research topics Write articles for a specific journal Peer-review articles for other students Submit their articles for approval and revisions before publication
Book Publication: Phase 1 (Medical/Health) FULL
Positions available: up to 200 total students, working in groups of 12 We would like students to write and publish books. For phase 1 of this initiative, students will focus on medical health topics. To accomplish this, we expect the student(s) will: work with team pod of students to help write two books, one book each week write 2200 to 4000 words each week and edit other team (pod) members work on collective document upload documents for publication as books onto research sites keep with schedule and work as book writing team This project will be ongoing over 8 weeks, with different books being produced in each two-week segment. There will be 4 project postings on Riipen that students can apply for. Each phase will run for two weeks.
Book Publication: Phase 2 (History) FULL
Positions available: up to 200 total students, working in groups of 12 We would like students to write and publish books. For phase 2 of this initiative, students will focus on history topics. To accomplish this, we expect the student(s) will: work with team pod of students to help write two books, one book each week write 2200 to 4000 words each week and edit other team (pod) members work on collective document upload documents for publication as books onto research sites keep with schedule and work as book writing team This project will be ongoing over 8 weeks, with different books being produced in each two-week segment. There will be 4 project postings on Riipen that students will apply for. Each phase will run for two weeks.
Book Publication: Phase 3 (Human Sciences) FULL
Positions available: up to 200 total students, working in groups of 12 We would like students to write and publish books. For phase 3 of this initiative, students will focus on human sciences topics. To accomplish this, we expect the student(s) will: work with a team (pod) of students to help write two books, one book each week write 2200 to 4000 words each week and edit other team (pod) members work on collective document upload documents for publication as books onto research sites keep with schedule and work as book writing team This project will be ongoing over 8 weeks, with different books being produced in each two-week segment. There will be 4 project postings on Riipen that students will apply for. Each phase will run for two weeks. Book 1 will be submitted to "Milestone 1". Book 2 will be submitted to "Final Submission".
Book Publication: Phase 4 (Natural Sciences) FULL
Positions available: up to 200 total students, working in groups of 12 We would like students to write and publish books. For phase 4 of this initiative, students will focus on natural sciences topics. To accomplish this, we expect the student(s) will: work with team pod of students to help write two books, one book each week write 2200 to 4000 words each week and edit other team (pod) members work on collective document upload documents for publication as books onto research sites keep with schedule and work as book writing team This project will be ongoing over 8 weeks, with different books being produced in each two-week segment. There will be 4 project postings on Riipen that students will apply for. Each phase will run for two weeks.
Collective Intelligence Market Research
Positions available: 6 (2 teams of 2-3) LUCA Theory is looking to partner with a keen student or group of students to help support our market research activities. We're looking for someone who is curious and resourceful to be able to help us sift through data, reports and trends. This role is for someone who is looking to get their foot in the door at an early-stage startup with the opportunity to grow. LUCA is a collective intelligence startup based out of Montreal. We are committed to helping power decision making in a variety of fields with our goal to overcome cognitive biases and be less wrong. We primarily work remotely and get together for key sessions when it dictates. About the Role We are currently cluing up our inaugural NFL Contest where we have been supporting sports fans with novel forms of collective intelligence and building out our overall app, algorithms and dashboards. As well, we have been connecting with investors, accelerator and incubators about their decision making needs. To support our market research we are looking for a student to analyze the following: * Sports Betting and Gambling trends in North America & Globally; * Research investment decision making which takes places at accelerators and incubators in Canada; * Analyze existing marketing channels and make recommendations on avenues and strategies; * Analyze legislation related to contests, sweepstakes and other prizes * Research sportsbook databases; * Evaluate startup investment decision making and trend analysis; This role may be split up amongst a team of students, depending on profiles and mandates. About You You are an undergrad, MBA or otherwise passionate student looking for a new opportunity to add to your portfolio. You have a strong knowledge of online markets and trends with a keen ability to access high-end research from leading thinkers in the market. You have the ability to connect with decision makers and get novel insights from them and have an ability to quickly develop rapport with people. Most of all, you are consistent, reliable and a strong team player. You know that there is no one right answer and that leveraging everyone's insights is the most powerful way to achieve success. Why join LUCA We're at an inflection point in our growth and have the opportunity to evolve rapidly. Given our ability to execute remotely, while making the power of in-person meetings when we get them, you can feel confident you are joining a team that can help advance your career goals, while contributing to the success of the company. We are a young team with diverse backgrounds always eager to connect, share and grow with our collaborators. This opportunity will be what you make it, starting out as a volunteer role with the opportunity to evolve into more! Learn more at www.lucatheory.com
Ice Cream Supply Chain - Logistics and Warehousing
Positions available: 2 Grafley, an innovative, 'no sugar added' ice cream brand is in the stages of finalizing manufacturing in Ontario. We are looking for a comparative study report analyzing the frozen food supply chain that considers cost, location, size, and overall best fit for our startup. The report will help us determine: 1 - which warehouse to use for dry ingredient storage, 2 - which warehouse to use for finished product storage, 3 - which transportation service to use for delivery of ingredients to warehouse, and 4 - which transportation service for delivery to customer (retailer or end-consumer) The deliverable for the project is a report that: - is structured in the above-mentioned criteria, - lists storage warehouses and transport companies that operate/service Ontario - lists the costs and key metrics required for making a decision - summarizes the findings and provides recommendations for short term and long term partnerships with such space/service providers.
Dreamcatcher - Developing a Magical Trail on a 40 Acre Animal Ranch
PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Due to covid, we began a small tourism business on our property to allow for families to get out of the house and into nature and with animals to destress/decompress and rejuvenate. People are invited to either visit our therapy horses, donkeys, sheep, goats and chickens over the fence or to go in with them with staff supervised interactions. As an extension of the project, we have now created "magical trails" and a "goat outlook" on the property to encourage more people to attend the program, to engage them with more to do and to work toward ensuring the longevity of the new business. We are also introducing goat yoga, horse mindfulness and family birthday parties on the land. At this time, we are seeking help to research other similar trails or projects in Canada and to gather creative ideas for our expansion and marketing strategies. We are hoping this Intrapreneurship program will provide people to help us to do this! HOW MANY STUDENT INTRAPRENEURS WILL THIS PROJECT ACCOMMODATE: 5 TIME COMMITMENT PER STUDENT: 70 KEY PROJECT ACTIVITIES Research similar projects to the one outlined in the request, create ideas for improvement of our project and generate marketing strategies and materials to enhance our growth. IDEAL ROLES/RESPONSIBILITIES: Researching Marketing Advertising Creating FINAL PROJECT DELIVERABLES: Factual info on competitive markets, productive info on how to market appropriately Creative ideas for generating interest Budget analysis on scope of the project to finish Feasibility study PROJECT MENTOR NAME: Eileen Bona
Canadian Advanced Air Mobility Consortium - Sales + Marketing + Data
PROJECT DESCRIPTION/DESCRIPTION DU PROJET: We're excited to find 3 energetic students looking to learn more about the future of zero emission aviation! We need help organizing the hundreds of people and organizations from government, industry and academia that continue to join our mission to have all flights within 500km operating with zero emissions by 2040. All of these different organizations want to stay engaged about what's happening int his industry, and our success as a not for profit comes when we can effectively engage with all of them. Currently, our focus is only on the big companies that are financially supporting our projects, but we have SO many amazing people and organizations that have signed up to learn more and stay updated - and we're doing a poor job of engaging with them. We need help organizing all of these companies and contacts in our customer relationship management platform(Hubspot) and building a system to ensure that as we grow even bigger in future years, we don't need to do this again. If we can properly categorize all of these companies and contacts, we can more effectively communicate with them and keep them engaged about this new industry. And if we have engaged companies and contacts, it will make getting this new industry off the ground even easier. HOW MANY STUDENT INTRAPRENEURS WILL THIS PROJECT ACCOMMODATE?/DE COMBIEN D’ÉTUDIANTS AVEZ-VOUS BESOIN POUR EXÉCUTER CE PROJET? 3 TIME COMMITMENT PER STUDENT/TEMPS DE TRAVAIL PAR ÉTUDIANT: 70 KEY PROJECT ACTIVITIES/TÂCHES ASSOCIÉES AU PROJET: Understanding our business model and the purpose of our engagement with contacts and companies Learning how to use Hubspot and how to apply it's tools effectively when building out our CRM Architecture Rebuilding our current company and contact records to effectively segment these records to allow us to engage with them Building an automated system to allow this framework to continue as new contacts and companies enter this system IDEAL ROLES/RESPONSIBILITIES/RÔLES/RESPONSABILITÉS:* Data Manager - responsible for leading the groups management of the company and contact datasets are clean and appropriately organized according to the framework established by the group. Each week of the 7 weeks, the Data manager will present to the group the collective work of the group in relation to the dataset(company and contact records). CRM Manager - responsible for leading the groups understanding of Hubspot and its related features. Each week, the CRM manager will present their learnings in terms of how Hubspot uses company and contact records in order to achieve our stated goals. Our understanding of hubspot will drastically change the way we segment our data. Marketing Manager - responsible for leading the groups understanding of how we intend to use the data in terms of building engagement through marketing efforts. Our understanding of how we intend to use this data to engage with companies and contacts will drastically change the way we organize our records. FINAL PROJECT DELIVERABLES/LIVRABLES DU PROJET: Reorganized and clean contact and company records within Hubspot which allow for effective and engaging communications with all of our stakeholders A learning session with all members of the CAAM team about what has been done and how it can help us all engage with our stakeholders A reports view in Hubspot which show a breakdown of the contact and company records by major categories as deemed important by the team Automations that continue segmenting/tagging new contacts and companies in accordance with the framework established IN WHAT LANGUAGE WILL THIS PROJECT BE PROVIDED/DANS QUELLE LANGUE CE PROJET SERA-T-IL FOURNI: English PROJECT MENTOR NAME/NOM DU MENTOR DU PROJET: Chris Howe
Social Media Content
Number of individual students required: 3 Number of students required to work in a team: 1 team of 3 Our team is looking for photographers and videographers to help us shoot out a new campaign and additional content. Campaign Video Creative How-to Videos Content for Social We’re excited to work with students who can help us not only brainstorm but also execute a strategy to achieve a successful campaign. This is a great project for students to prove their digital advetisting expertise to future employers, as the impact of their work on this project can be easily measured and communicated.
Pet sitter / Vendor sourcing
With the soft-launching of the service, FurrySitter needs to validate the traction model. Before concluding, sufficient pet sitters will need to serve FurrySitter's customers. And it is the background of this project. Internship support will be essential for the success of the trial run of the business. Objectives We hope to achieve the following targets by the end of the project: Build up a lead list with 100+ pet sitters/ pet-care professionals Getting 30%+ pet-care professionals onboarding to FurrySitter
Interdisciplinary Authors - January 2023
This project will begin January 2nd following a kick-off meeting and orientation for all student-hires. The end-date for the project and deliverable submission deadline is January 31st at 11:59 PM MST. The Antarctic Institute of Canada (AIC) is a non-profit organization that conducts research activities, academic mentorship programs, and equity building through a variety of government-funded work initiatives for undergraduate and graduate students. The AIC is seeking 100 post-secondary students currently enrolled in a post-secondary program to author a variety of texts for publication. Topics and guidelines will be determined following the kick-off meeting. Participants will produce a finalised deliverable of a minimum 3000-word article. Applicants must be comfortable writing according to a variety of conventions and formats and within diverse topic-areas. Applications will only be accepted if the team name is your first and last name. Do not apply in teams.
Interdisciplinary Authors - February 2023
This project will begin February 1st following a kick-off meeting and orientation for all student-hires. The end-date for the project and deliverable submission deadline is February 28th at 11:59 PM MST. The Antarctic Institute of Canada (AIC) is a non-profit organization that conducts research activities, academic mentorship programs, and equity building through a variety of government-funded work initiatives for undergraduate and graduate students. The AIC is seeking 100 post-secondary students currently enrolled in a post-secondary program to author a variety of texts for publication. Topics and guidelines will be determined following the kick-off meeting. Participants will produce a finalised deliverable of a minimum 3000-word article. Applicants must be comfortable writing according to a variety of conventions and formats and within diverse topic-areas. Applications will only be accepted if the team name is your first and last name. Do not apply in teams.
Interdisciplinary Authors - March 2023
This project will begin March 1st following a kick-off meeting and orientation for all student-hires. The end-date for the project and deliverable submission deadline is March 31st at 11:59 PM MST. The Antarctic Institute of Canada (AIC) is a non-profit organization that conducts research activities, academic mentorship programs, and equity building through a variety of government-funded work initiatives for undergraduate and graduate students. The AIC is seeking 100 post-secondary students currently enrolled in a post-secondary program to author a variety of texts for publication. Topics and guidelines will be determined following the kick-off meeting. Participants will produce a finalised deliverable of a minimum 3000-word article. Applicants must be comfortable writing according to a variety of conventions and formats and within diverse topic-areas. Applications will only be accepted if the team name is your first and last name. Do not apply in teams.
Multidisciplinary Creatives - October 2023
This project will begin following a kick-off meeting and orientation for all student-hires. The Antarctic Institute of Canada (AIC) is a non-profit organization that conducts research activities, academic mentorship programs, and equity building through a variety of government-funded work initiatives for undergraduate and graduate students. The AIC is seeking post-secondary students currently enrolled in a post-secondary program to participate in producing diverse creative deliverables for public dissemination and consumption. All participants are expected to possess the adaptability and willingness to navigate and compose within diverse stylistic and structural conventions, spanning multiple subject domains, reinforcing the holistic and encompassing nature of this initiative. Contact antarcticinstituteofficial@gmail.com for questions.
Canadian Supply Chain Network Mapping Project
The main goal for the project is to create a digital map of all the existing supply chain networks in Canada, including passenger buses, shipping, warehouses, and resources to support the logistics and transportation industry. This project will involve several different steps for the learners, including Researching and analyzing the existing supply chain networks in Canada. Developing a digital mapping system to visually represent the networks. Identifying and categorizing communities, both large and small, to be included in the mapping project. Creating a database of resources and supports available within each community. Implementing a user-friendly interface for accessing the digital map and network information.
Course Material Development for Robymisterdrums Enterprise
The main goal for the project is to work with a group of business owners to write course material for a series of workshops that will be used in a variety of different applications and venues including: online course, live on location workshops, expos, and other applications. This will involve several different steps for the students, including: Collaborating with business owners to understand the content and goals of the workshops. Researching and developing course material for online and live workshops. Creating engaging and interactive content that can be used in various applications and venues. Incorporating feedback from business owners and making necessary revisions to the course material.
Student Success Online Program Design
Our organization is seeking to develop an interactive online program to help students succeed academically and professionally. We want to create a self-paced program with a number of topics ranging from resume creation to scholarship application writing. We would like to work with students to determine what features and format our target audience would find useful in an online course. Based on this information, students can then recommend what information would be most valuable. Tasks include: Gathering relevant information based on our course outline Researching additional relevant topics to be included in the course Design a user-friendly and interactive course that will be hosted on our website Design and creation of a mobile app to access program
Loyalty Program
Our company advertises thousands of products online. We want to increase customer engagement through loyalty programs. We would like to collaborate with students to develop new loyalty programs. This will involve several different steps for the students, including: Familiarizing themselves with our target market, products and services. Identifying customer actions to be rewarded and types of rewards. Recommending ways to market the program and enroll more customers. Identifying possible partnerships for more attractive offers. Bonus steps in the process would also include: Recommending ways to gamify our loyalty programs.
Prospect List Creation for AIempower Education
The main goal of the project is to create a comprehensive list of potential prospects for AIempower Education. The target customer is leadership teams in the faculty of Arts and Social Sciences within Canadian universities. The list should include basic info about individuals, budgets, and the number of departments under their leadership. This will involve several different steps for the students, including: - Researching Canadian universities and their Arts and Social Sciences faculties. - Identifying leadership teams within each faculty. - Gathering basic information about individuals, budgets, and the number of departments under their leadership. - Compiling the information into a comprehensive list.