Careerin Tech Online Career Fair - Marketing + Event Planning
PROJECT DESCRIPTIONCareerin Tech Society is a non-profit that helps people develop their careers in the tech sector.Careerin is organizing online career fairs to connect tech talents open for new jobs and tech companies that are hiring and we also invite tech professionals to share career insights or best practices in different topics. Careerin is using videos and online events to help candidates learn more about tech companies, their mission, culture, and people in the teams so they can find the companies that they are 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.The career insights sessions can help students or people that are new to the tech industry to learn about the different career paths, while the best practices sessions are good for professional development and experience sharing with their peers in the tech industry.Students will help us in organizing and running our monthly Careerin Tech online event.KEY PROJECT ACTIVITIESEvent planning and managementMarketing and promotionOutreach to potential tech companies and professionalsIDEAL ROLES/RESPONSIBILITIES:* 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 interviewJob fair organizer - Reach out to tech companies that are hiringMarketing + PR - Event promotion in our social media channels, other tech communities, and tech mediasSponsorship - Reach out to potential sponsors to secure sponsorship for our events (professional firms, tech companies, etc)FINAL PROJECT DELIVERABLES:Organizing and running our monthly Careerin Tech online eventPROJECT MENTOR NAME: Kenneth Ip - CEO of Careerin Tech Society
Careerin - Virtual Internship Opportunity: Marketing
Number of positions available: 3-5 students ( individually or in teams)Our organization is able to offer a virtual internship opportunity for 3-5 marketing students or teams.The primary focus for the student will be: Branding - define our organization's brand and core value proposition; identify opportunities and threats facing our brand; assess where and how to improve our brand's presence and differentiate from our competitors.Marketing Communications - create an integrated marketing campaignMarket Research - Investigate our competitive landscape; perform market segmentation to identify the ideal target market for our products; conduct customer surveys or focus groups to gain insights into the perceptions and behaviours of our target customers; develop a pricing strategy; identify expansion opportunities; identify key messaging for new product or service.Public Relations - Develop and implement a PR strategy; create collateral, including press releases, user testimonials, case studies, and customer stories.Prospecting Strategy - Assess our current outreach process and develop and implement targeted prospecting; review our prospect messaging, make improvement recommendations, and create new outreach content.SEO Strategy & Recommendations - Develop and implement an SEO strategy; provide content suggestions and recommendations to increase search visibility; increase our inbound traffic and optimize the customer journey; increase inbound leads.Strategic Social Media Marketing - Conduct an audit of our current social media presence and/or other current communication channel(s); develop and implement strategies for improving our online presence and increasing engagement; create a content calendar; creating useable social media and blog posts.Our goal at the end of this experience is: Branding and Marketing Communications - For the student(s) to help us improve our brand's presence and capture greater market share.Market Research - For the student(s) to help us gain a better understanding of our target market and ensure we are optimally positioned and our product and pricing aligns with our target sector/customer.Public Relations - For the student(s) to help us effectively communicate our brand's story and mission to a broad audience.Prospecting Strategy - For the student(s) to help us implement better prospecting that increases conversion rates and boost our sales team's performance.SEO Strategy & Recommendations - For the student(s) to help us generate more traffic and revenue through search engines.Strategic Social Media Marketing - For the student(s) to help us improve our online presence, reach more customers, and effectively promote our brand through compelling content.Other duties the student may complete could include: (indicate other duties as exemplified below)Assist with outbound email marketing campaigns 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: Zoom Meetings + Swit (it's like Slack+Trello)Primary contact: Kenneth Ip, CEO
Careerin Tech Society - Content Marketing (Tech Career insights)
Careerin Tech Society is a non-profit that helps people discover and develop their careers in the Tech sector. https://careerin.orgCreate and curate contents about the different career paths in Tech:MarketingSalesProduct ManagementUX DesignHuman Resources / People & CultureData Analyst / Business AnalystSoftware EngineeringStartup FoundersStudents that are interested in one of these career paths and learn more about that while helping many others to gain these insights!
Careerin Online Career Fair
Positions available: 10 students, individually or in teamsCareerin 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 interviewJob fair organizer - Reach out to tech companies that are hiringMarketing + PR - Event promotion in our social media channels, other tech communities, and tech mediasSponsorship - Reach out to potential sponsors to secure sponsorship for our events (professional firms, tech companies, etc)
Virtual Internship Opportunity: Human Resources
Our organization is able to offer a virtual internship opportunity for Human Resources students or teams.In this project students will be able to work in the following areas:Creating job postings on job boardRecruit volunteers (screening/interviewing)Organizing online career fairsResearch HRM best practices: Topics that will be covered includes their change in work from home policies, benefits, recruiting process, onboarding process, Diversity & Inclusion, etc.Research/report about how companies are adapting with COVID19 and switching to a remote working forceOrganizing webinars and interviewing people in the tech sector about their career (e.g. HR, Marketing, etc) and insights about their company's culture, so people can gain insights into what this career is likeWe will plan to communicate with our virtual intern using these communication tools: Zoom + Swit (it's like Slack+Trello)Student's primary contact: Kenneth Ip, CEO - Careerin
(VFC) FoundersBoost Vancouver - Accelerator Program Management + Marketing
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:FoundersBoost (a partner of Techstars) is a mentor-driven pre-acceleration program that runs for 6 weeks and we take no fees or equity from startups. Our goal is to prepare early-stage startups in Vancouver/BC for accelerators, seed investors, and revenue by providing pitch coaching and mentorship during the program as well as connections to accelerators and VCs after the programWe are running two cohorts each year:Spring Cohort - Application period between Jan - Mar, six Weekly sessions between Mar - Apr, Demo Day in MayFall Cohort - Application period between Jul - Sep, six Weekly sessions between Oct - Nov, Demo Day in DecBetween Jan - Mar and Jul - Sep, we will be focusing on promoting the accelerator program and recruiting startups/mentors, as well as hosting webinars and startup community eventsBetween Mar - Apr and Oct - Nov, we will be focusing on running the weekly sessions and recruiting Investors for Demo DaysHOW MANY STUDENT INTRAPRENEURS WILL THIS PROJECT ACCOMMODATE? 5TIME COMMITMENT PER STUDENT: 70 hoursKEY PROJECT ACTIVITIES:Accelerator program management, startup event managementMarketing and PromotionResearch startups and supporting organizationsIDEAL ROLES/RESPONSIBILITIES:* Marketing + PR - Event promotion in our social media channels, other tech communities, and tech mediasSponsorship - Reach out to potential sponsors to secure sponsorship for our events (professional firms, tech companies, etc)Program Associate - Coordinate with startups, mentors, speakers, investors, and HeadquarterVenture Analyst - Researching, sourcing, and recruiting startups to the accelerator programEvent Management - Host and organize webinars and startup community eventsPartnership - Research and develop relationships with different related communities/organizations that support startupsFINAL PROJECT DELIVERABLES:This varies depending on the roles and the time your project start/ends (in relative to what we are focusing on during that time as mentioned in the Project Description section above)PROJECT MENTOR NAME: Kenneth Ip - FoundersBoost Vancouver Director
Investment Analysis and Supporting Global Social Entrepreneurs
To identify social impact startups who are in their early or growth stage yet in need of resources to assist them as they expand and scale their business. The list will be used to prospect these companies and offer introductions to funding, and workforce development assistance to help them grow and make a bigger impact.
Careerin - Virtual Internship Opportunity: Marketing
Number of positions available: 3-5 students ( individually or in teams)Our organization is able to offer a virtual internship opportunity for 3-5 marketing students or teams.The primary focus for the student will be: Branding - define our organization's brand and core value proposition; identify opportunities and threats facing our brand; assess where and how to improve our brand's presence and differentiate from our competitors.Marketing Communications - create an integrated marketing campaignMarket Research - Investigate our competitive landscape; perform market segmentation to identify the ideal target market for our products; conduct customer surveys or focus groups to gain insights into the perceptions and behaviours of our target customers; develop a pricing strategy; identify expansion opportunities; identify key messaging for new product or service.Public Relations - Develop and implement a PR strategy; create collateral, including press releases, user testimonials, case studies, and customer stories.Prospecting Strategy - Assess our current outreach process and develop and implement targeted prospecting; review our prospect messaging, make improvement recommendations, and create new outreach content.SEO Strategy & Recommendations - Develop and implement an SEO strategy; provide content suggestions and recommendations to increase search visibility; increase our inbound traffic and optimize the customer journey; increase inbound leads.Strategic Social Media Marketing - Conduct an audit of our current social media presence and/or other current communication channel(s); develop and implement strategies for improving our online presence and increasing engagement; create a content calendar; creating useable social media and blog posts.Our goal at the end of this experience is: Branding and Marketing Communications - For the student(s) to help us improve our brand's presence and capture greater market share.Market Research - For the student(s) to help us gain a better understanding of our target market and ensure we are optimally positioned and our product and pricing aligns with our target sector/customer.Public Relations - For the student(s) to help us effectively communicate our brand's story and mission to a broad audience.Prospecting Strategy - For the student(s) to help us implement better prospecting that increases conversion rates and boost our sales team's performance.SEO Strategy & Recommendations - For the student(s) to help us generate more traffic and revenue through search engines.Strategic Social Media Marketing - For the student(s) to help us improve our online presence, reach more customers, and effectively promote our brand through compelling content.Other duties the student may complete could include: (indicate other duties as exemplified below)Assist with outbound email marketing campaigns 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: Zoom Meetings + Swit (it's like Slack+Trello)Primary contact: Kenneth Ip, CEO
Virtual Internship Opportunity: Human Resources (Careerin Tech Society)
Careerin Tech Society is a nonprofit organization that helps people develop their careers in the tech sector. We worked with 400+ students via Riipen last year to provide work-integrated learnings and help them develop skills and gain working experience.Our organization is able to offer a virtual internship opportunity for Human Resources students or teams.In this project students will be able to work in the following areas:Recruit volunteers and interns (sourcing/screening/interviewing)Improving onboarding/offboarding processes, employee engagement and internal communicationWe will plan to communicate with our virtual intern using these communication tools: Zoom + Swit (it's like Slack+Trello)Student's primary contact: Kenneth Ip, CEO - Careerin
(VFC Project) Careerin Tech Online Career Fair - Marketing + Event Planning
PROJECT DESCRIPTIONCareerin Tech Society is a non-profit that helps people develop their careers in the tech sector.Careerin is organizing online career fairs to connect tech talents open for new jobs and tech companies that are hiring and we also invite tech professionals to share career insights or best practices in different topics. Careerin is using videos and online events to help candidates learn more about tech companies, their mission, culture, and people in the teams so they can find the companies that they are 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.The career insights sessions can help students or people that are new to the tech industry to learn about the different career paths, while the best practices sessions are good for professional development and experience sharing with their peers in the tech industry.Venture for Canada Intrapreneurs will help us in organizing and running our monthly Careerin Tech online event.HOW MANY STUDENT INTRAPRENEURS WILL THIS PROJECT ACCOMMODATE? 5TIME COMMITMENT PER STUDENT: 70 hoursKEY PROJECT ACTIVITIESEvent planning and managementMarketing and promotionOutreach to potential tech companies and professionalsIDEAL ROLES/RESPONSIBILITIES:* 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 interviewJob fair organizer - Reach out to tech companies that are hiringMarketing + PR - Event promotion in our social media channels, other tech communities, and tech mediasSponsorship - Reach out to potential sponsors to secure sponsorship for our events (professional firms, tech companies, etc)FINAL PROJECT DELIVERABLES:Organizing and running our monthly Careerin Tech online eventPROJECT MENTOR NAME: Kenneth Ip - CEO of Careerin Tech Society
Careerin - Virtual Internship Opportunity: Marketing
Number of positions available: 3-5 students ( individually or in teams)Our organization is able to offer a virtual internship opportunity for 3-5 marketing students or teams.The primary focus for the student will be: Marketing Communications - create an integrated marketing campaignPublic Relations - Develop and implement a PR strategy; create collateral, including press releases, user testimonials, case studies, and customer stories.Strategic Social Media Marketing - Develop and implement strategies for improving our online presence and increasing engagement; create a content calendar; creating useable social media and blog posts.Our goal at the end of this experience is: Branding and Marketing Communications - For the student(s) to help us improve our brand's presence and capture greater market share.Public Relations - For the student(s) to help us effectively communicate our brand's story and mission to a broad audience.Strategic Social Media Marketing - For the student(s) to help us improve our online presence, reach more customers, and effectively promote our brand through compelling content.Other duties the student may complete could include: (indicate other duties as exemplified below)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: Zoom Meetings + Swit (it's like Slack+Trello)Primary contact: Kenneth Ip, CEO
Careerin - Community Development in Tech sector
Careerin Tech Society is a non-profit organization that helps people develop their career in the tech sector. We want to build a professional community for people that works in or want to work in the tech sector. We want to develop resources/contents/online events that can help them grow in their different career paths (e.g. HR, Marketing, Software Development and others), this includes interviewing professionals/hiring managers/founders in tech companies so they can share insights in the different careersStudents can help us in Community outreach, engagement and/or community development and they might be able to learn more about the career path they are interested in and expand their professional networks while working on this project while helping other people gaining insights at the same time.
Startup Boost Vancouver - Virtual Internship Opportunity: Marketing
3-5 individual positions available.Our organization is able to offer a virtual internship opportunity for 3-5 marketing students or teams.The primary focus for the student will be: Public Relations - Develop and implement a PR strategy; create collateral, including press releases, user testimonials, case studies, and customer stories.Strategic Social Media Marketing - Conduct an audit of our current social media presence and/or other current communication channel(s); develop and implement strategies for improving our online presence and increasing engagement; create a content calendar; creating useable social media and blog posts.Our goal at the end of this experience is: Public Relations - For the student(s) to help us effectively communicate our brand's story and mission to a broad audience.Strategic Social Media Marketing - For the student(s) to help us improve our online presence, reach more customers, and effectively promote our brand through compelling content.Other duties the student may complete could include: 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: Zoom Meetings + SlackPrimary contact: Kenneth Ip, Vancouver Director
Startup Grind Richmond - Virtual Internship Opportunity: Marketing
Number of individual positions available: 3-5Our organization is able to offer a virtual internship opportunity for 3-5 marketing students or teams.The primary focus for the student will be: Public Relations - Develop and implement a PR strategy; create collateral, including press releases, user testimonials, case studies, and customer stories.Strategic Social Media Marketing - Conduct an audit of our current social media presence and/or other current communication channel(s); develop and implement strategies for improving our online presence and increasing engagement; create a content calendar; creating useable social media and blog posts.Our goal at the end of this experience is: Public Relations - For the student(s) to help us effectively communicate our brand's story and mission to a broad audience.Strategic Social Media Marketing - For the student(s) to help us improve our online presence, reach more customers, and effectively promote our brand through compelling content.Other duties the student may complete could include: 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: Zoom Meetings + Swit (it's like Slack+Trello)Primary contact: Kenneth Ip, Startup Grind Richmond Director
Non-Profit Staffing and Volunteer Recruitment Optimization
Careerin Tech Society is a non-profit organization that helps people develop their career in the tech sector. We connects them with resources and host webinars and online career fairs to connect job seekers with job opportunities.Our staff and volunteers are at the heart of what we do, and their recruitment is critical to our organization’s success. Finding individuals who can invest their time in our mission, whether as employees or volunteers, can be costly. We want to find ways to optimize this process so we can find great candidates faster, and spend more time serving our clients and community. We would like students to help us with one or more of the following activities:Document the current state of our staff and/or volunteer recruitment process, from the time the resource need is identified to the time the position is filled. Create visualizations, i.e. Visio or data flow diagrams to help us identify strengths and pain points in our recruitment process. Assess our current process and make recommendations for improvements and efficiencies. Document and map a target state process that we can use to train our team on the new process.
Startup Grind Richmond - Training Module Development
Startup Grind is a global entrepreneurship community with a mission to inspire, educate, and connect entrepreneurs around the world. We are planning to develop a training program for first-time entrepreneurs in starting their businesses.To assist us in this goal, we would like to collaborate with students to design trainings. The high-level training design should be based on our provided objectives and include templates, processes, strategy, and implementation guidelines. We have an idea of areas where training could be implemented, but we would also appreciate insight on recommended training and development areas.
Careerin Virtual Internship Opportunity: Computer Science
Postions available: 3Careerin Tech Society (https://www.careerin.co) is a non-profit organization that support you to grow your career in tech. We provide resources for you to find job opportunities, learn skills and connect to a community tech talents.We want to help you build a career you love. Get practical advice on finding a job, exploring different career paths, and succeeding in the job you already have.We also support the technology sector by helping tech companies attract and find the right talents as they grow and expand.Our organization is able to offer a virtual internship opportunity for 3 computer science students or teams.The primary focus for the student will be:Web Application Development using Bubble.io - Creating a Job board using videos (we have the backend for video capturing already); creating a fully-functioning web application.Our goal at the end of this experience is: Application Development - For the student(s) to create a fully functioning application.We will plan to communicate with our virtual intern using these communication tools: Zoom + Swit (it's like Slack+Trello)Student's primary contact: Kenneth Ip (Founder & CEO)
Careerin - User-Generated Content Campaign Plan
By mimicking successful campaigns like the ALS bucket challenge and the #BufferCommunity campaign, we hope to leverage social media in an effective and ultra-low-cost campaign, based on user-generated content. To accomplish this, we believe you could focus on: Evaluating recent successful user-generated campaigns, preferably in our industry. Selecting a primary social media channel for our campaign. Developing a campaign plan including theme, hashtag, and messaging. Creating a content calendar and example content for the duration of the campaign. Through this campaign, we hope to increase online engagement and brand awareness and drive sales of our new product.
Writing Project - About How COVID Change Recruiting, Onboarding and Work in Tech
We are looking for students to help us in writing some articles around how tech companies are adapting their recruiting strategies and processes because of COVID or how people that worked in the traditional industries (Retail/Hotels, etc) that are affected by COVID can switch to a career in tech industry. Or other topics around future of work, employment, recruiting, company culture
Strategic Prospecting Plan
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. This 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. 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.
Careerin online career fair
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 staffs because of COVID19 but there are still companies that are hiring. The student will help in marketing this career fairs and handle event coordination.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 talks about what their companies is about in videos and they will have online meeting sessions with candidates that interested in joining them.Candidates can create self intro video in our platform that can be access 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.
FoundersBoost Vancouver - Accelerator Program Management + Marketing
PROJECT DESCRIPTION:FoundersBoost (a partner of Techstars) is a mentor-driven pre-acceleration program that runs for 6 weeks and we take no fees or equity from startups. Our goal is to prepare early-stage startups in Vancouver/BC for accelerators, seed investors, and revenue by providing pitch coaching and mentorship during the program as well as connections to accelerators and VCs after the program. Founders Boost helped over 300+ startups from 15+ cities around the world raise $85 million in funding in the past 4 years.We are running two cohorts each year:Spring Cohort - Application period between Jan - Mar, six Weekly sessions between Apr - May, Demo Day in JuneFall Cohort - Application period between Jul - Sep, six Weekly sessions between Oct - Nov, Demo Day in DecBetween Jan - Mar and Jul - Sep, we will be focusing on promoting the accelerator program and recruiting startups/mentors, as well as hosting webinars and startup community eventsBetween Apr - May and Oct - Nov, we will be focusing on running the weekly sessions and recruiting Investors for Demo DaysKEY PROJECT ACTIVITIES:Accelerator program management, startup event managementMarketing and PromotionResearch startups and supporting organizationsIDEAL ROLES/RESPONSIBILITIES:* Marketing + PR - Event promotion in our social media channels, other tech communities, and tech mediasSponsorship - Reach out to potential sponsors to secure sponsorship for our events (professional firms, tech companies, etc)Program Associate - Coordinate with startups, mentors, speakers, investors, and HeadquarterVenture Analyst - Researching, sourcing, and recruiting startups to the accelerator programEvent Management - Host and organize webinars and startup community eventsPartnership - Research and develop relationships with different related communities/organizations that support startupsFINAL PROJECT DELIVERABLES:This varies depending on the roles and the time your project start/ends (relative to what we are focusing on during that time as mentioned in the Project Description section above)PROJECT MENTOR NAME: Kenneth Ip - FoundersBoost Vancouver Director
Creating graphic design assets
We're looking for a student to help us with the creation of new graphic design assets.This will include:Coming up with color themes and branding guides that aligns with and builds on our existing branding.Creating graphic design assets for our online events, digital marketing materials, contents and websites