Talk:Careerprise pitch

Careerprise pitch

Careerprise pitch (office hour, 2023-9-4) Script

Careerprise pitch (office hour, 2023-9-4) is the office hour event on September, 4th about Careerprise pitch

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https://youtu.be/p3PSZLEoRuo?si=wzzrYcgIuNABcFo9 (29:35)

Introduction

Hello everyone I am Gary from CNMcyber and we have Kevin here and today we will have our office hour talking about Careerprise pitch and Kevin prepared several questions which we'll probably go over.

What is a Careerprise pitch?

Okay, what is a Careerprise pitch?

First of all, let's go with the general, do you understand the general idea of a pitch like an elevator pitch or sales pitch?

Basically, a pitch is when you tell your potential customer what you offer and an elevator pitch is kind of 30 seconds usually very short and well-rehearsed.

I changed the elevator pitch for CNMcyber after you said it was good, I showed it to an employment agency. I showed it to a lady and asked her, You’ve seen the pitch, what do you think? She said, they're saying we're not a training company and we offer you a job, but this job is temporary and she said I would be cautious, I'm not sure it doesn't sound feasible. That is why I changed the CNMCyber pitch to the following, CNMcyber features introductory jobs so you can explore various professions in IT and find the best match. Our jobs come with knowledge skills experience certificates and recommendations. Those who start from scratch organize meetings first, develop websites second and we at CNMCyber will stop when your professional calling and Target occupations are determined. I don't know what’s your take, if you like the previous one you should like this one. But the idea is that in a very short way, we're telling what we offer. CNMcyber offers introductory jobs, why? So, you can explore various professions in IT and find the best match. Not only in IT but later we'll say if you don't go to IT you can be an accountant for instance, so the same thing should be like for Careerprise. It should be like some well-rehearsed short clear why people want to join us to develop services.

So the service is right now I'm moving to another page, I discovered that we had this in the course which you have taken like a while ago it was called Careerprise bizopp, and I'm moving what was in CNMCyber talk page I'm moving to here. So, this is what we need to develop, for instance, the CNMCyber elevator pitch page, it is deliverable. It is the elevator pitch for CNMcyber, the first deliverable which is in some level of readiness but we have more. Since we need to offer people our introductory jobs and we need to find someone who can develop them because these jobs are not available, the CNMCyber pitch is what we are working on, what we want to implement, and what we want to make real. Careerprise is a pitch to people to join us, to help to build those descriptions of the Meetup Group description of the elevator page, description of the website, description of CNMCyber events, description of the script if it's not finished yet

So, what is Careerprise pitch? Generally, it's what we are selling people. We're saying we would like to change our money to your services, right? What is good about us? We will pay you like once a week and something else. Careerprise pitch is technically our proposition proposal, it's our proposal for someone who wants to be a Careerprise contractor.

Goal/objective for careerprise pitch

Someone can read it and say oh it sounds intriguing to me, I want to give it a try.

Gary asked: You know the file? Initially, you create awareness, someone who has heard people who are hiring, goes and explores what is needed to be hired and what is expected from the person

Who is the target audience for the pitch

I have no idea. I don't know, I posted it in Upwork, is the place where I found Kevin, but eventually, that time it was not structured, there was no pitch. So technically Kevin didn't go. The only thing Kevin did was this video scripting which is why I picked him, and kind of we started working further

I would say generally my experience posting this work on Upwork, the efficiency was pretty low. The thing that was good I would say everyone hired was given five hours and then I saw where people kind of trying to do something so at least I could assess. But most people couldn't understand and they just dropped.

In terms of money, it was a good experience because paying five hours low wages I could see how people perform. The bad side was that people were not happy. Most of the people who dropped out were just disappointed, they couldn't understand. They thought they landed a job, but they didn't realize the job hired them for five hours to assess so they thought this was kind of a job and maybe I approached differently.

I announced we hired people from our events but again it was more successful I would say, but events should be going event should be like people are coming for some activity if it works then it works.

I have no idea about the target audience I don't know. Right now, we are developing a draft and then we will show this draft to marketing agencies maybe they will suggest who can be.

It is difficult to say, seeing a person it's nothing to suggest whether this person will be able to develop our Wiki pages. The description of the work generally is, to ask questions like office hour style record the answers, and move the answers to the wiki. This is kind of this is the job this is the basic definition of the job. Research something else research what is possible what is available on the market and do the office hours, capture the script, and move the script to the requirements.

This is not a profession, it's not a specialty, I don't know, it's difficult to say. If you want me to segment the market, most likely it will be either younger people or if older should be management like retirees. It has two major audiences for our services.

What are the key qualifications for the target audience

Ability to ask questions, capture the results move the results to the wiki pages

What are the core message/key ideas the pitch needs to get across

The function of the pitch is to attract attention and to get someone who can who wants to explore. So, we are looking for job developers or we need to call it somehow different I don't know. You need to say or maybe these marketing agencies need to say whom we should pitch. Basically, we need people who can Envision. This job is not like instruction, it's not any kind of press a button 25 times a minute, No, it's kind of more sophisticated. We need someone who will see, have questions ask these questions schedule either office hours or capture the results and move the results to the wiki pages and we agree to pay money for this. The money is not much but you're welcome to start.

What are the specific pain points the careerprise pitch needs to address

We can say in the pitch that we develop jobs for those who have never worked, so this is our pitch, and we need to think about how these people will be on-boarded. What they should know, and give them some skills which will include the Wiki, organizing events and capturing the results. We can mention it here

Let's consider the story of Maria, the lady who is an 18-year-old living in Eldoret who just graduated from high school. she has a young baby and cannot land a job in downtown Eldoret because it includes the commute and lives somewhere in the suburbs. Maria doesn't have childcare or kindergarten. She needs to look for a job that will fit her schedule, Maria needs to see if someone is hiring people to work from home. People who will help build the service for those who never had a job. Maria was not offered a job but was offered a job to build a job for those who were like her. In this case, it’s difficult for me to relate to these people, we need to build something and then test it.

Benefits/outcomes of developing careerprise pitch

We'll show the pitch to everyone so let's say right now, the CNMcyber pitch, answers the question what's careerprice? or what is the CNMCyber? I'll say CNMCyber is basically introductory jobs for those who never worked and they can get experience and knowledge. They can decide what they want to do next. The same we will be telling to marketing agencies, we need people who can develop services for those who never worked. So the outcome is basically around the pitch we will be building our pitches our prepositions our proposal it's our like offer so what we offer people

Evidence/examples or stories that can be used to back up the pitch

We have a few stories including yours Kevin. If we need more we can reach out to Vitali or Sonia or Miriam or whomever.

What makes careerprise stand out compared to available options in the market

In comparison, all the services on in the market in the market I will say there are no good alternatives if we include introductory jobs in our statement I'm not aware of any place where people can try to work introductory jobs honestly, I know very for many limitations some initiatives in Moscow backed by initially backed Moscow City Hall I know like again very limited.

This is kind of a blessing at the same time because we cannot Point anything let's say if we use for instance a video we can say it's a clone of YouTube, right, everyone knows YouTube so we're all saying it’s a clone of YouTube like cinem tube is a clone of YouTube. Just like made for our purposes right so people know. We're using right now Wiki, people know Wiki. For introductory jobs, I don't know any I don't know competitors and this is and that is why it's difficult to explain to people. We don't have available options on the market so generally the option on the market is what you need to pick, what is your specialty. Let's say you pick business for instance, your major is in business, most likely you studied and after five years you then need to learn the jobs in the business. I know an example of another person who studied business and she couldn't find any job because no one wanted to hire her because she didn't have experience She basically ended up doing something else completely, she became a designer. The good thing is when she became a designer, later she made this designing as a business, so eventually for her, it worked somehow. Anyway, all this essays economy of Germany before World War II, what was the point why did she need to do it? It's difficult to say.

How the success or impact of the pitch be measured

We have developers so we don't, we are moving our staff well we don't like this will be one of the criteria like or Key Performance Indicators

Constraints or limitations to consider

I'm not aware of anything right now. Nothing offensive. which we shouldn't sound kind of Russian nationalist.

Are there any must-mention topics words or concepts

I don't know let's start with something and we will improve later. Again, I would want to get back to this CNMcyber pitch I can comfortably say that it was changed like 500 times at least. So the same here we need to have something and build on that. This makes sense.

Kevin asked: Okay so I'll careerprise pitch won't be so much different from CNMCyber pitch?

Gary answered: CNMCyber about offering you introductory jobs so you can explore different professions. careerprise we are offering you money we are offering you work

Kevin asked: to develop CNMCyber?

Gary answered: Yes, we are offering you work and you may be interested in our work because we can hire everyone who can work. We don't have any core requirements you don't need to be authorized to work, basically, you need to have only a bank account or something right if you want to be paid. You need to have an internet connection.

You need to think of it as different CNMCyber is about we offer you introductory jobs so you can explore, careerprise pitch we offer you a job so you can make a couple of bucks.

Gary asked: Anything else?

Kevin answered: No, not at the moment.

Gary: Thank you so much everyone, let's take our faces again. I was Gary and we had Kevin and see you around and bye-bye.

Forbes article

Forbes/Leadership/Education

Work Experiences Are As Important To Career Prep As School

Tom Vander Ark, Contributor -- I write about the future of learning, work and human development.

Nov 29, 2019,05:00am EST

Connor loved making things. When he learned his high school had a relationship with a metal fabricator, he applied for an internship. Patrick, the owner, appreciated Connor’s interest and created a variety of valuable experiences for Connor. Patrick learned project management and scheduling, problem solving and root cause analysis, professional standards, and tolerances.

Near the end of his first year at the fabricator, Connor was fired for goofing off—another important lesson. After apologizing, Connor was rehired for a second year. He helped make improvements to the company’s website. His internship confirmed his career trajectory and helped the company build the manufacturing talent pipeline.

Work experiences can be as important as formal education (high school and college in particular) in terms of shaping career preferences and readiness. Left to chance, they may be few in number, inequitably distributed, and poorly supported. Instead, they should be built into the schedule and programming of every secondary and post-secondary institution.

The following are a few examples of schools and networks that do a pretty good job of ensuring that all learners have successful work experiences.

Big Picture. Students in the 65 U.S. Big Picture Learning schools (https://www.bigpicture.org/) participate annually in internships in high school often two days a week “with experts in their field of interest, completing authentic projects and gaining experience and exposure to how their interests intersect with the real world.” Big Picture is unapologetically learner-centered, and puts systems in place to empower learners to pursue their interests.

Through their Imblaze app, students can create or find internships and then manage the acceptance process through a series of checklists. Imblaze also allows teachers to track attendance and monitor host feedback.

Connor attends Highline Big Picture, south of Seattle, where students attend internships two days a week. Host organizations range from manufacturing to retail to city government—anything relevant to a student’s career interest. Students and workplace hosts are well prepared for internship experiences with clear expectations and supporting visits from the school’s staff.

At San Diego Met High School, students spend Tuesday and Thursday at work experiences. An internship coordinator serves as a liaison between the Met, business partners, and the workplace mentor to ensure a minimum of three of the five Met learning goals are met. Teachers visit the internship site a minimum of three times to meet with the mentor and student.

Students earn attendance credit through independent study contracts. They present two exhibitions a year, in which they demonstrate how they have mastered the content standards and integrated the five Big Picture learning goals through their academic work and internships.

Across the Big Picture network, students participate in internships each year, allowing them to start in familiar and supported environments and move into more unfamiliar, complex and exploratory settings.

NAF. Students in the 618 career academies in the NAF networks complete internships as juniors. They earn NAFTrack Certification (https://naf.org/our-approach/naftrack) requirements, which include:

• 120 hours or two 60+ hour internships
• Direct supervision by an accountable adult who is not the student’s teacher
• Producing work of value to an employer
• Written individualized learning plan connected to student learning outcomes
• Completion of the NAFTrack Internship Assessment by the student intern’s supervisor at the end of the internship.
• Interns are paid at no less than the applicable state or local minimum wage, which may be a youth minimum wage if permitted by state or local law.

Internships typically take place during the summer between the student’s junior and senior years of high school, but can also be done during the school year at a frequency that works with the student’s and employer’s schedule. Some schools have internship courses set up where students can earn credit for their internships.

Miami Dade has many good examples of schools providing work-based learning and paid internships. They are also piloting the implementation of NAFTrack with regional employers.

Linked Learning. ConnectED (https://connectednational.org/) supports schools on a systemic approach called Linked Learning where students learn in career pathways and participate in internships.

At Clairemont High School in San Diego, 11th graders have a monthly meeting with a career path mentor (four students to each business mentor). Seniors take a semester-long course, Exploratory Work Experience, with a five-week Introduction (Essential Skills Bootcamp) and 10-12 weeks of work experience totaling at least 40 hours. Academy teachers visit each job site several times during the experience. Students build a portfolio of work, culminating with a senior capstone, that showcases essential career skills, ethical behavior, civic duty, and fiscal responsibility.

Professions-Based Learning. Southwest of Kansas City, the Blue Valley Center for Advanced Professional Studies (BVCAPS) is a next gen career center providing part time career focused learning experiences in emerging job clusters.

“Most internships are a semester long and typically place a student in a workplace environment for 3-4 days a week for 2-3 hours per day. We do have students that find a work culture and employer they love and commit to longer time periods,” said Executive Director Corey Mohn.

BVCAPS placements have included Garmin, Cerner, Black & Veatch and Burns & McDonnell.

BVCPAS was so successful at promoting professions-based learning—at the center and on the job—it was replicated by districts in northeastern Kansas City and then nationwide. The CAPS Network has 56 affiliates representing 112 school districts in 16 states (and a partner in India).

“Every CAPS affiliate is different in approach to internships, and that is intentional – our framework allows for local affiliates to flex to meet local conditions,” explained Mohn. “The one consistent component is that all CAPS affiliates will place at least a portion of students into internships before graduation.”

He noted that Northland CAPS in Kansas City places all 350 students in a second semester internship.

Work In and Out of School. Dubiski Career High School in Grand Prairie, Texas, is a large career focused high school with 15 career pathways in three academies. Most students have internships and more than half of these are with organizations outside of Grand Prairie. The school provides transportation to the internships. Dubiski students also gain work experience running a bistro, a student store, a salon, a print shop, and a quick lube—all open to the public.

Flexible scheduling. Kenton County, Kentucky seniors can apply for an internship in their career pathway. The internship can vary in length, may be paid or non-paid, and could lead to course credit if all criteria are met. Students who complete at least 400 hours of a work-based learning experience program receive two hours of high school credit. The Academic Internship takes place at the training site of the mentor and will be a component of a scholar’s schedule either during the regular school day, after school hours, or during the summer, and may be one semester, one or more trimesters, or a yearlong experience.

Well structured internships can be the most valuable learning experience in high school. They confirm career interests and motivate further studies. Equally importantly, they can solve what a Big Picture principal called “the puppy problem,” where a student gets a dog and think they want to become a veterinarian.

If you’re a secondary school leader, make internships a priority in your schedule, budget, and staffing. If you’re a business owner or organizational leader, support high school and college work experience programs and help grow your business and your community.