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Educaship pitch is a pitch that The Economic Group (hereinafter, #The Pitcher) utilizes in order to attract educational partners (hereinafter, #The Partners) in Kenya into development, administering, and marketing of smooth school-to-work transitions under #The Pitcher's #Educaship program.

CNMCyber Team (hereinafter, #We), which is a group of #The Pitcher's volunteers, oversees the development on #The Pitcher's side, as well as administers #The practice we envision and markets #Our offerings on behalf of #The Pitcher.


Contents

In a nutshell

This section covers (a) #Our aspirations or why #We do what #We do, (b) #Our DevOps or how #We do what #We do, and (c) #Our story or where #We are coming from and where #We are heading to.

30-second pitch

We at #CNMCyber welcome high schools as partners to smooth school-to-work transitions of their students. The students are to explore various occupations and career options, find the best match, earn competency credentials and introductory work experience. To the partnership, we bring initial training, workplace sandboxes, supporting technology, limited financing, and guidance in entering the labor market. We expect that our partners would contribute their expertise and student participation. If interested, educaship.com/schools shall get you started.

Bridging the gaps

To make #Our aspirations real, #We develop #The services we build. #Our offerings are designed to:
  1. Identify #The Students' professional aptitudes, inclinations, and interests, as well as their strengths, weaknesses, and special features.
  2. Determine one's #Target occupation or type of job that is feasible for a particular student to land and those industries that align with the aptitudes and interests of that particular student.
  3. Help to plan in "a-big-picture" details #The Students' career development and landing of meaningful, high-quality jobs.
  4. Connect graduates from our programs with:
    • Secondary education and job training providers, so #The Students can have a choice of opportunities to build their #KSAs.
    • Donor, government, and investor resources, so #The Students can be able to finance their vocational education and job search. #We strive to assist everyone to solve financial issues even when they have absolutely no monetary resources in their households available.
    • Employers, so #The Students can land their apprenticeships and meaningful employment.
  5. Provide #The Students with introductory #Competency credentials, #Job-related networking, and #Work experience in order to set them up for success in their career development and, further, on the job market.
With regards to #The Pipeline, #We are committed to leading #The Students through the first three stages and prepare them for building their #KSAs on the fourth stage and starting working full-time in a particular #Occupation on the fifth stage.

Our aspirations

Our mission is to make school-to-work transition and youth entrance to the workforce as smooth as possible. #We understand that there are a number of services that can help with job interview preparation, job search, market presence, resume writing, social networking, and workforce development. #We are not willing to recreate anything that already exists.
Our objectives include both:
Generally, #We would like to limit our aspirations to the objectives stated in the #Bridging the gaps section and, particularly, will not consider entering into the secondary education, job training, and recruitment fields.

Our DevOps

For the purposes of this wikipage, our DevOps refers to our approach to development. This approach combines continuous development (Dev) and operations (Ops) of services behind #Our offerings. To advance #iDosvid and other products, both Dev and Ops are run at the same time:
  1. On the Dev side, #We produce, deliver, and deploy new products or modifications of existing products.
  2. On the Ops side, #The Students use our work products to allow us to identify areas of further production, delivery, and deployment.
In addition, many employers value competency in DevOps by itself. To continuously provide #The Students with opportunities to have DevOps experience, #We are not going to ever complete #The services we build and finalize #The practice we envision. By design, they need to be under both continuous development (Dev) and operations (Ops) as long as #iDosvid exists.

Our needs

Based on #Our aspirations, our business needs are:

Our story

With regards to Kenya, #The Pitcher's goal is assisting youth in entering the workforce. According to "Youth Employment Initiatives in Kenya. Report of a Review Commissioned by the World Bank and Kenya Vision 2030",

Kenya faces a significant unemployment problem with youth being hit hardest. The high unemployment is related to the overall investment climate in the country and the economy’s low capacity to create new jobs. But youth find it particularly difficult to enter the labour market. Reasons for this are complex. They range from deficits in education and skills to lack of work experience, difficulties to obtain information about career options and job chances, irrational recruitment practices of employers, and the lack of necessary assets and attitudes to become self-employed. (Source: https://vision2030.go.ke/publication/youth-employment-initiatives-in-kenya/)

Since 2012, #The Pitcher generally and #We particularly have been developing services for those who are thinking about careers and looking for jobs to begin with. Among #Our offerings, #iDosvid is our signature program for high-school students one year before their graduation year. This program features artificial intelligence, #Minimal training, and #Workplace sandboxes to deliver #Career-planning help, #Entry-level credentialing, #Job-related networking, #Vocational orientation, and #Work experience to #The Students.
Its backbone is job-alike practice, in which #The Students explore various #Occupations to find the best match. This practice can be compared to sampling on a marketplace, fitting rooms in clothing stores, and/or test drives in auto-dealerships. A prospective buyer is given a chance to try a thing before buying it.
#We are not going to provide #The Students with secondary and/or vocational education on our own. The market is saturated and there are many players on that field. #We are going to help "buyers" of education make wiser "purchase" decisions. In addition, #We plan to match those of #The Students who need education, but cannot afford it on themselves, with those potential employers who may pay for it.
Indeed, secondary and vocational education are expensive phenomena. Even if they don't cost money, they take time. #The practice we envision shall provide #The Students with work trial opportunities. Until #Target occupations are identified, #The Students can organize meetings, develop IT, operate clouds, and coordinate cyber endeavors that would benefit the public good.
While being placed in the drivers' seats of modern technology, #The Students also start their professional experience and earn #Competency credentials. Equally importantly, that practice may reveal or, at least, suggest professional aspirations of #The Students. #We envision to use practice's results for their #Vocational orientation.
To advance #iDosvid, #We would like to deploy the #DevOps model. #The Students would test the available products during one session and, based on that testing, new products would be developed until the next session.
Such development requires #The Students. Therefore, #We are now looking for #The Partners, most likely, high schools or whatever else that can bring a sizeable number of #The Students of school age to #iDosvid or its limited scope versions called #In2job Career Day and #EmployableU Camp.
To the partnership, #We bring #Course prototypes, #Training experience, supporting technology, which is called #Opplet, #Workplace sandboxes, and #Limited financing. From #The Partners, #We expect their #Expertise in youth work and #The Students to participate.

Our offerings

For the purposes of this wikipage, our offerings refer to our three work products that we market to those people who are not on the job market, but are eventually going to enter it. Our offerings include (a) #iDosvid, (b) #EmployableU Camp, and (c) #In2job Career Day. The #Comparisons of our offers section of this wikipage contains tables that compare our offerings.

#We are working on each of those products. In addition to our offerings, #We may also promote our other #Brands such as #CNMCyber and #Opplet, as well as other #Brands of #The Pitcher.

iDosvid

iDosvid represents the full scope of the first three stages of #The Pipeline delivered free of charge. Its name, i Dosvid, is pronounced "ee DOS-veed", which means "and experience" in Ukrainian. The idea behind the name was that #The Students shall receive #Career-planning help, #Entry-level credentialing, #Job-related networking, #Vocational orientation, and #Work experience by the end of iDosvid.
#We may suggest that some of #The Students would be employable as a result of iDosvid. However, providing #The Students with full-time professional employment is not iDosvid's objective. The goal of iDosvid is setting up #The Students for success in their career development. #We expect that graduates from iDosvid should take advantage of the fullest scope of benefits stated in the #Our aspirations section.
iDosvid was originally expected to be launched in Ukraine; however, because of the war there, the launch was postponed. iDosvid is designed to be friendly to high-school students, so it can be delivered as an #After-school program. iDosvid's signature website is iDosvid.com.

EmployableU Camp

EmployableU Camp is the shortened version of #iDosvid that is designed to be delivered as a #Summer camp. Both the Camp and #iDosvid feature full-scope #WorldOpp Orientation and #EmployableU Concepts courses. However, the scope of #CNMCyber Bootcamps including their curriculum, job-alike practice, and guided entrance to the labour market is significantly reduced in comparison with #iDosvid.
As a market exchangeable, the Camp belongs to the #EmployableU #Product line. The Camp is designed to be delivered in 3 sessions at least and, therefore is still bigger than #In2job Career Day.
Two goals of the Camp is (a) preparing #The Students for career development and (b) making sure that they are more employable than before enrolling into the Camp. #We expect that graduates from the Camp should know how to identify their #Target occupations, choices for acquiring the needed #KSAs, and landing their jobs. Those participants of the Camp who are interested in a fuller scope can switch to #iDosvid while being enrolled in or after graduation from the Camp.

In2job Career Day

In2job Career Day is the shortened version of #EmployableU Camp and, therefore, the shortest product that #We are going to develop, administer, and market. The goal of the Career Day is making #The Students aware of career development and job search. The Career Day is designed to be delivered in one day as a #Career day.
As a market exchangeable, the Career Day belongs to the #In2job #Product line. The goal of the Career Day is making sure that #The Students are aware of #Career-planning help, #Entry-level credentialing, #Job-related networking, #Vocational orientation, and #Work experience, as well as their opportunities to get prepared and be successful on the job market. Those participants of the Career Day who are interested in fuller scopes can switch to either #EmployableU Camp or #iDosvid upon their graduation from the Career Day.

The services we build

For the purposes of this wikipage, the services we build refer to services behind #Our offerings. According to iDosvid pitch, #We would love to provide #The Students with #Workplace sandboxes, which shall be similar to regular workplace, so #The Students can practice with #The practice we envision in order to explore various professions in order to find the best match and earn #Competency credentials.

#We use #DevOps to advance our services. Since they heavily rely on #Opplet, #The Students shall also get #Tech support.

Career-planning help

For the purposes of this wikipage, career-planning help refers to services of providing #The Students with:
  1. Knowledge about career development, recruitment, and job search.
  2. Software tools to build their careers, as well as skills to use those tools.

Entry-level credentialing

For the purposes of this wikipage, credentialing refers to services of:
  1. Providing #The Students with opportunities to earn #Competency credentials.
  2. Making sure that #VIT issues #Competency credentials to #The Students who have earned them, as well as that #VIT maintains credential records publicly, so potential employers may verify them.

Job-related networking

For the purposes of this wikipage, job-related networking refers to our services of helping #The Students to network professionally. Besides contacts with #The Mentors and their peers, #The Students are welcome to undertake #Event-driven projects and participate in #Professional groups. Altogether with #Performance records, #The Students should be able to build their own professional networks.

Minimal training

Neither #The Pitcher nor #We are not training providers. With regards to job training, our goal is to connect #The Students with secondary education and/or vocational training providers.
At the same time, #We strive to provide #The Students with #Career-planning help, #Job-related networking, #Vocational orientation, and #Work experience. To enable #The Students to take full advantage of our services, #We offer minimal training.
Our introductory training reflects the #Learning sequence we use and based on #Course prototypes. The training scope is strictly limited to what #The Students need in order to graduate successfully from our programs.

Privacy

For the purposes of this wikipage, privacy refers to our services of protecting the privacy of #The Students. #CNMCyber doesn't collect any personally-identifiable data. Instead, each of #The Students is granted a fictitious identity within #CNMCyber. In addition, #CNMCyber doesn't require email addresses; everyone can register in #CBNCyber without email.
At the same time, #The Students normally want their names on #Competency credentials, so #The Students of the age of majority or their guardians may choose to provide their real names and so on to #The Pitcher in order to officially establish the #Competency credentials.

Student support

For the purposes of this wikipage, student support refers to our services of helping #The Students to be successful academically and socially. Because not only students need to be supported technologically, #Tech support is a separate section on this wikipage.
  1. CNMCyber events
  2. CNM Social
  3. To get one-on-one connection, #The Students shall be served with a sufficient number of #The Mentors, including #Staffers on the ground. #The Mentors may also provide #The Students with some on-the-job training when needed.

Vocational orientation

Based on #The practice we envision, recommendations of #The Mentors, and personal survey results, #The Students shall be advised about their vocational aptitudes, career options, and occupational paths. #We plan to utilize artificial intelligence (AI), requirements for which shall be defined and implemented.

Work experience

For the purposes of this wikipage, work experience refers to both professional experience that #The Students are welcome to obtain and our to services of providing #The Students with it.
Graduates from both #EmployableU Camp and #iDosvid will obtain work experience, which many employers value over other #Competency credentials. The graduates may choose to hide their records. Otherwise, the work experience records will be posted publicly, so potential employers can verify them.

Competency credentials

#We believe that professional credentials are highly desired outcome for most of #The Students. Since #The practice we envision is the only source for those credentials, they are not available to graduates from #In2job Career Day. Our service of #Entry-level credentialing is designed to give those who are enrolled into #EmployableU Camp and #iDosvid opportunities to earn them.

Certificates

Graduation from any quarter of #CNMCyber Bootcamps grants each of #The Students one of #KSACerts. Graduates from #iDosvid will earn four certificates, including #CITPMA. Graduates from #EmployableU Camp may have up to three: KSA Certified Event Organizer, KSA Certified Digital Developer, and KSA Certified Digital Operator.
These #KSACerts are not tailored to any particular profession, but are useful through various professional specialties and #Occupations.
In addition to #KSACerts, graduates from #EmployableU Camp and #iDosvid gain valuable #Work experience, which may qualify them partially or fully for pursuing other trade certificates. For instance, one year of project management experience is required for the Project Management Professional (PMP) designation. Graduates from #iDosvid would have already had about half of that.

Performance records

By itself, #Work experience generates professional records. At #CNMCyber, this record is always documented and, if needed, can be proven.
While being enrolled in #The practice we envision, #The Students shall also participate in #Professional groups. Altogether with professionally-meaningful connections, that participation shall generate records of profession-related performance such as delivering a speech, serving on a board, writing an article, etc.

Recommendations

Each of graduates from #iDosvid will receive an official professional recommendation from #The Mentors. Some of graduates from #EmployableU Camp may also get that credential.

Learning sequence we use

#Our offerings utilize the first three stages of #The Pipeline. These stages are designed to provide #The Students with introductory work experience, career options, and guided entrance, normally, as apprentices to the labor market.

WorldOpp Orientation

WorldOpp Orientation is a brief, no more than 2 hour long, course that is designed to introduce #The Students to #Our offerings, #The services we build, #Competency credentials, #Learning sequence we use, #The practice we envision, #What we already get, #What we can commit to, as well as #Student motivation. In other words, #The Students will overview what they can expect from #The Pitcher and us, as well as what is expected from them while they are enrolled in #The Pipeline.
As a market exchangeable, the Orientation belongs to the #WorldOpp #Product line.

EmployableU Concepts

EmployableU Concepts is a lightweight, about 3-4 hour long, course that is designed to introduce #The Students to general concepts related to careers and career management, as well as employment, employability, self-employment, job markets, labor laws, occupations, professional credentials, recruitment, work characteristics, work arrangements, and workforce development.
As a market exchangeable, the Course belongs to the #EmployableU #Product line.

CNMCyber Bootcamps

CNMCyber Bootcamps combine #The practice we envision and formal transfer of knowledge that #The Students minimally need for that practice. The Bootcampts are composed of four quarters, each of which represents formal curriculum and the practice that is designed to reinforce that curriculum.
Quarter # Quarter title Activity # Learning activity description Quarter-graduating #Certificates
1 Organization of professional meetings 1a Taking Event Organizer Bootcamp lectures KSA Certified Event Organizer
1b Practicing with #Event-driven projects as CNM Event Organizers
2 Development of #CNMCyber 2a Taking Website Developer Bootcamp lectures KSA Certified Digital Developer
2b Practicing with #Technology projects as CNM Website Developers
3 Operations with #Opplet 3a Taking Cloud Operator Bootcamp lectures KSA Certified Digital Operator
3b Practicing with #Cloud operations as CNM Cloud Operators
4 Coordination of #CNMCyber 4a Taking Cyber Coordinator Bootcamp lectures Certified IT Project Management Associate (CITPMA)
4b Practicing with #Endeavor coordination as CNMCyber Coordinators; planning for the career is the graduation project.
As a market exchangeable, the Bootcamps belong to the #CNMCyber #Product line.

Educaship Fellowship

The fourth stage, Educaship Fellowship, combines professional education and apprenticeship. On the fifth stage, Careerprise Employment, #The Students get support while transitioning to professional jobs. If #The Students choose to be self-employed, they receive assets and attitudes to become the ones.

The practice we envision

For the purposes of this wikipage, practice refers to CNMCyber practice, in which #The Students undertake efforts to produce and/or operate CNMCyber products. The practice combines experiential learning, on-the-job training, and introductory work experience.

As the core of #CNMCyber Bootcamps, #The Students are going to practice with real-world tasks in job simulation environments. A notable difference between real-world job and our practice is that #We welcome errors and mistakes. For that reason, practice tasks are designed to be non-sensitive and, therefore, risk tolerant.

No practice presents any particular #Occupation. All of the practices can be met in workspaces across various industries and professions. #We use #DevOps to define those practices.

Finally, #The Students practice with the non-profit endeavors only. Any value that those endeavors may produce must be available to the general public at no cost. In other words, the endeavors should benefit the public good and be offered free-of-charge. When #The Students are legally able to work commercially and if they would like to do so, they are welcome to switch to #Careerprise at any time. To be employed and paid, they would develop those services that can be sold on the market.

CNMCyber Welcome

CNMCyber Welcome is a bundle of services designed to help #The Students start to practice. The services include:
  1. Periodic videoconferences for live interactions.
  2. CNMCyber Welcome Video and CNMCyber.com Welcome webpage with comment sections.
  3. CNMCyber Welcome Space, which is a CNMCyber community.
Basically, the services are to provide #The Students with opportunities to have their questions answered and possible issues resolved.

Event-driven projects

As CNM Event Organizers, #The Students are to organize business meetings of #Professional groups, as well as interviews with #The Mentors and other CNMCyber products' stakeholders in order to gather information and/or generate ideas. While doing so, #The Students shall touch a number of people-oriented professions; they shall also start building their #KSAs in:
  1. AV production. While capturing audio and video during meetings and interviews, as well as producing media, #The Students may touch #Occupations such as Audio and Video Technicians, Audiovisual Equipment Installers and Repairers, Broadcast Technicians, Camera Operators, Television, Video, and Film, Film and Video Editors, Lighting Technicians, as well as Sound Engineering Technicians.
  2. Interpersonal communication. Communicating upcoming events, possibly, moderating the events, and following them up contribute to interpersonal competence. The skills are often called people skills; it is difficult to imagine any job that would not require those. Further, #The Students may apply their new #KSAs to #Job-related networking.
  3. Document production. While producing documents before, during, and after events, #The Students may touch #Occupations such as Desktop Publishers, Information and Record Clerks, News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists, as well as Technical Writers.
  4. Event planning, particularly, executing an Event 5W3H concept. Experience in organizing of meetings is a great soft skill by itself. #The Students shall also get introduced to the Meeting, Convention, and Event Planners #Occupation.
  5. Marketing. While introducing upcoming events and their records, as well as positioning them on the market, #The Students may touch #Occupations such as Account Managers, Advertising and Promotions Managers, Customer Relationship Managers, Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists, Marketing Managers, Online Merchants, Public Relations Specialists, Sales Engineers, as well as Social Media Marketers.
  6. Product design. While collecting stakeholders requirements and designing events, #The Students may touch #Occupations such as Business Analysts, Business Intelligence Analysts, Product Designers, Product Managers, Product Owners, as well as Requirements Engineers.
The best draft of a list of available projects is published on the CNMCyber Event-Driven Projects wikipage. As a part of their #Workplace sandboxes, #The Students will receive: (a) CNM Social's access to schedule meetings, (b) CNM Talk's access to conduct conferences, (c) personal #VMs with installed OBS Studios to record meetings and produce videos, (d) CNM Tube access to post meeting videos, as well as (e) CNM Wiki access to capture events' results.

Technology projects

As CNM Website Developers, #The Students are to develop documentation and prototypes for websites and other technology products. While doing so, #The Students shall touch a number of development-oriented professions; they shall also start building their #KSAs in:
  1. Interactions design. While designing website contents, interfaces, and structures, #The Students may touch #Occupations such as Commercial and Industrial Designers, Graphic Designers, Human Factors Engineers and Ergonomists, Information Architects, Usability Analysts, UX Designers, as well as Web Digital Interface Designers.
  2. Content creation. While creating website contents, including the graphics, multimedia, and texts, #The Students may touch #Occupations such as Actors, Art Directors, Content Managers, Media Technical Directors/Managers, Poets, Lyricists and Creative Writers, Producers and Directors, Proofreaders and Copy Markers, Special Effects Artists and Animators, Web and Digital Interface Designers, as well as Writers and Authors.
  3. Technology development. While developing technologies behind the website, #The Students may touch #Occupations such as Android Developers, Architectural and Engineering Managers, Computer Programmers, Database Architects, Front-End Developers, Information Security Engineers, iOS Developers, Software Developers, Solution Architects, Systems Engineers, as well as Web Developers.
  4. Web-search marketing. While working on search engine optimization (SEO), #The Students shall touch the Search Marketing Strategists #Occupation.
The best draft of a list of available projects is published on the CNM Website Projects wikipage. To their #Workplace sandboxes, #The Students will add access to personal instances of CNM WordPress.

Cloud operations

As CNM Cloud Operators, #The Students are to operate existing applications and their systems of #Opplet. While practicing with a particular application, they will review its existing documentation, research the topics at professional sources online, discover the actual technology, run its operations, and report their observations to other learners.
While doing so, #The Students shall touch a number of operations-oriented professions; they shall also start building their #KSAs in:
  1. Data management. While collecting, organizing, and analyzing operational data, #The Students shall touch #Occupations such as Accountants and Auditors, Data Analysts, Data Scientists, Business Intelligence Analysts, Bookkeepers, Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks, Intelligence Analysts, Operations Research Analysts, Statistical Assistants, Statisticians, as well as Survey Researchers.
  2. Document management. While collecting, organizing, and analyzing operational data, #The Students shall touch #Occupations such as Document Management Specialists, Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks, as well as Regulatory Affairs Specialists.
  3. Operations management. While managing existing systems' operations of #Opplet, #The Students shall touch #Occupations such as Business Operations Specialists, Functional Managers, General and Operations Managers, as well as Office Clerks
  4. Software administration. While administering existing applications and their systems of #Opplet, #The Students may touch #Occupations such as Computer Network Support Specialists, Cybersecurity Professionals, Database Administrators, Network and Computer Systems Administrators, Technology Consultants, as well as Web Administrators.
  5. Testing and analysis. While testing existing applications and their systems of #Opplet, #The Students may touch #Occupations such as Computer and Information Research Scientists, Computer Systems Analysts, Digital Forensics Analysts, Information Security Analysts, Penetration Testers, Quality Control Analysts, as well as Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers.

Endeavor coordination

As CNMCyber Coordinators, #The Students are to coordinate the endeavors to develop new pieces of technology and/or to operate the existing ones. While doing so, #The Students shall touch a number of management-oriented professions; they shall also start building their #KSAs in:
  1. Contracts administration. While administering contracts, #The Students may touch #Occupations such as Business Buyers, Contracts Administrators, File Clerks, Interviewers, Partner Liaisons, Procurement Managers, as well as Receptionists and Information Clerks.
  2. Endeavors administration. While observing enterprise administration and contractors' work, #The Students may touch #Occupations such as Business Administrators, Configuration Managers, DevOps Engineers, Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants, Information Technology Project Managers, Project Management Specialists, as well as Scrum Masters.
  3. Human resources. While recruiting new contractors and detaining existing ones, #The Students may touch #Occupations such as Compensation, Benefits, and Job Analysis Specialists, Compensation and Benefits Managers, Human Resources Assistants, Human Resources Managers, Human Resources Specialists, Industrial-Organizational Psychologists, as well as Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks.
  4. Workforce development. While developing the workforce, #The Students may touch #Occupations such as Career/Technical Education Teachers, Training and Development Managers, as well as Training and Development Specialists.
The best draft of a list of available endeavors is published on the CNM Cloud Usable wikipage. This practice serves as a capstone to other practices of #CNMCyber Bootcamps. Similarly to previous practices, CNMCyber Coordinators deal with #Event-driven projects, #Technology projects, and #Cloud operations. However, they now do so on the customer's or manager's side, not on the provider's side. Thus, CNMCyber Coordinators are involved in recruitment and management as well.

Comparisons of our offers

This section contains three comparisons of #Our offerings. They are (a) #Engagement estimates, (b) #Services vs offers, and (c) #Within the sequence.

Engagement estimates

One size doesn't fit all. Every CNMCyber product behind #Our offerings is not designed to engage every learner. Based on #Training experience, we estimate various levels of engagement.
#What students we target* #In2job Career Day #EmployableU Camp** #iDosvid
School-age students, age 12-15 70% 35-50% 30%
School students, pre-graduation class 90% 55-70% 50%
School students, graduation class 65% 30-45% 25%
College students 55% 15-30% 5%
Young professionals, entry-level workforce 45% 10-25% 2%
Mid-career workforce 40% 15-30% 3%
Upper-career workforce, second career launchers 50% 20-35% 8%
Seasoned seniors 30% 5-20% 1%
* The numbers that the table presents cannot be universal. The college student and young professional rates include a significant portion of numbers in pre-war Ukraine. The school student and adult estimates are largely based on our experience in the United States.
** Flexibility of #EmployableU Camp's scope causes flexibility of its engagement estimates.

Services vs offers

All the products behind #Our offerings offer some combination of #The services we build.
#The services we build #In2job Career Day #EmployableU Camp #iDosvid
#Career-planning help Not offered Offered partially Offered fully
#Entry-level credentialing Not offered Offered partially, no #CITPMA is available Offered fully
#Job-related networking Slightly touched Offered partially Offered fully
#Minimal training Slightly touched Offered partially Offered fully
#Privacy Offered fully Offered fully Offered fully
#Student support Offered minimally Offered partially Offered fully
#Vocational orientation Offered minimally Offered partially Offered fully
#Work experience Not offered Offered partially Offered fully

Within the sequence

All the products behind #Our offerings are built on #Learning sequence we use.
#Learning sequence we use #In2job Career Day #EmployableU Camp #iDosvid*
#WorldOpp Orientation Slightly touched Covered fully Covered fully
#EmployableU Concepts Covered partially Covered fully Covered fully
#CNMCyber Bootcamps Slightly touched Covered partially Covered fully
* Although none of #Our offerings covers #Educaship Fellowship, #iDosvid fully prepares for this next stage of #The Pipeline.

Job offers

For the purposes of this wikipage, job offers refer to the paid work that #VIT or other employers that are affiliated with #The Pitcher will propose to #The Students while they are enrolled in #The Pipeline.

#We welcome job offers as a part of career development. If you are one of #The Students who can legally work and need to earn for your living immediately, #We encourage you to look for other opportunities. Although our services are designed to help you to land full-time professional employment, that endeavor normally takes time, possibly, years.

Apprenticeships

#The Students' successful completion of #CNMCyber Bootcamps shall automatically lead to an offer to continue with #Educaship Fellowship. Apprenticeship is the backbone feature of this , which is the fourth stage of #The Pipeline. Its participants normally start working at some portion of a professional rate and their rates grow as their #KSAs grow.

Side work

For the purposes of this wikipage, side work refer to paid work that #VIT offers to #The Students as independent contractors. As soon as #The Students earn the KSA Certified Event Organizer credential, they receive an offer to execute the Careerprise contractor agreement.
Only people of the age of majority can be a party in that agreement. If #The Students cannot legally do so, they can possibly try to ask their legal guardians. In that case, the legal guardian may play a role of an independent contractor, while hiring a minor as a subcontractor.
Careerprise contractors may choose a project they would like to work on. Work on some of the projects require only skills to interview the customers; that is why #The Students' ability to organize meetings is vital.
The funded projects are listed on the Careerprise bizopp wikipage. That work is not designed as full-time professional employment. Both quantity of projects and their funding are limited. Nevertheless, #The Students may be benefited from paid part-time work while they are building their future careers.

The delivery we anticipate

After-school program

As of now, #We anticipate that #iDosvid would be initially offered as extracurricular activities within some after-school program.

Career day

As of now, #We believe that #In2job Career Day is best delivered as career days in partnership with schools, related not-for-profits, or government organizations that deal with youth and youth employment. Our expertise in organizing such events is extensive; our first career day occurred in a Microsoft store in Tyson's Corner, Virginia on June 12th, 2012 -- https://www.meetup.com/techdc/photos/9029432/

Global extensions

As of now, #We would like to consider global extensions when the schools in which #iDosvid is initially launched can collaborate; for instance, members of one team can participate from different countries such as Ukraine (where #iDosvid was supposed to be introduced originally), Kenya (where #iDosvid should be eventually introduced), and USA (where an "adult" version of #iDosvid called #CNMCyber was developed at first place).

Summer camp

As of now, #We guess that some series between #In2job Career Camp and #iDosvid can be delivered as a summer camp in partnership with schools or those not-for-profits that deal with school-age students.

What we already get

Course prototypes

#We have developed several course prototypes:
  1. Initially, #We have built two courses, #WorldOpp Orientation and #EmployableU Concepts, as well as drafted the third one, #CNMCyber Bootcamps, in English and published them on CNM Cert.
  2. Later, #We translated the courses into Russian, introduced them in Ukraine, and advanced all three courses to #MVPs. In total, they served 2,000+ learners.
  3. Next, #We translated the courses into Ukrainian to use them in Ukrainian-language, original version of #iDosvid.

Opplet

Opplet is our cloud-based technology behind #CNMCyber. Opplet.com is its official website and #Opplet.net is its user management system. Because of Opplet, #The Students get:
  • System accounts that are assigned automatically.
  • End-user, power-user, and/or administrator-level permissions for the common-access technology that they practice with.
  • #VMs with super-user permissions.
Those #Students who choose to become system administrators, may conduct their apprenticeships on CNM Bureau Farm, CNM Campus Farm, and CNM Lab Farm. As of October of 2023, about 67% of #MVP is complete.

Training experience

#We started out in 2012 as a technical training team of one non-profit group in the Washington DC metro area. Since then, thousands of people participated in our IT training events. Most of training sessions were hands-on. Many of them, as well as their pictures, have been published at the CNMCyber Meetup group.
Specifically to school-age children, we organized several programs in partnership with Mott Community Center in Fairfax, as well as Microsoft stores in Arlington and Tyson's Corner, Virginia. We also accommodated some internships and learning programs. The longest lasted for an academic year by the end of which 12-year-old participants could develop webpages while coding with HTML/CSS/JavaScript, as well as mobile apps utilizing Android Studio.

Workplace sandboxes

Each of #The Students will receive:
  • His or her personal #VM. Those VMs will emulate corporate devices; they shall be used in #The practice we envision.
  • His or her human resource module account in CNM Corp. To simulate corporate environment, #The Students will punch in when they arrive and punch out when they leave.
As of October of 2023, about 80% of sandbox #MVP is complete.

What we can commit to

Advisory committee

#We consider creating International Council for Vocational Orientation to build our #Expertise in youth work.

Fundraising assistance

#We can commit to participation in fundraising efforts that would target reasonable private, non-profit, and/or government donors.

Limited financing

Utilizing #The Pitcher's financing, #We can commit to covering some expenses. However, limitations of that financing require us to prioritize.
  1. First and foremost, #We can commit to work on #Opplet until 100% of #MVP is complete.
  2. Secondly, #We would favor covering costs of #Access to our cloud.
  3. Thirdly, #We would strongly consider funding #Staffers on the ground; #The Pitcher may either transfer funds to #The Partners or treating them as Careerprise contractors.
  4. The rest of our budget can be used for endeavors related to, in alphabetical order, #Advisory committee, #Partner motivation, #Our offerings, and/or #Student motivation.

Tech support

#We can commit to creating and maintaining a technology help desk for troubleshooting and technical issue resolution.

What we need

#We are developing #The services we build, but the development goes slowly. The services are just partially available at the moment. To expedite the development, #We look for #The Partners' help.

Access to our cloud

To access the technology, #The Students should have:
  1. Internet connection. Through #Limited financing, #We may initiate partial or 100% #Reimbursements if #The Students access via their own devices and/or payments to #The Partners to cover their expenses.
  2. Computing devices such as smartphones or laptops. #We may provide #Fundraising assistance to raise resources for the devices, their storage, and transportation.
  3. If the service is offered onsite, location such as a class or another room. #We can further pitch potential donors to make this room look like a real-world workspace with, for instance, office cubicles.

Expertise in youth work

#We have absolutely no expertise in working with youth in Kenya, including cultural, economic, and legal environments. So, we will surely welcome someone from senior management position or executive-level retiree to the #Advisory committee. Particularly, that committee would discuss what needs to be created, where to source its developers, how to deploy, etc. #We can also treat that help as consulting.

Staffers on the ground

#The Students should have at least a couple of staffers on the ground to:
  • Act as #The Mentors while helping #The Students to resolve learning challenges.
  • Manage interpersonal conflicts, which may possibly occur.
The target number of the staffers should depend on the number of students.

The Students

For the purposes of this wikipage, the Students refer to recipients of #The services we build. The #What students we target section of this wikipage describes our target audiences.
While having a solid number of the Students, #We will move the development into the DevOps model. #We will present what #We have to the learners and ask them to practice with what #We have, while new pieces get available.

What students we target

#We welcome #The Students of any walks of life until they believe that #The services we build can help them. Based on #Engagement estimates, #We predict that those who would like to identify their occupational calling and professional specialties should be benefited the most.

Primary audience

#We believe that our primary target audience is high-school students one grade before the graduation class. At that age, the biggest percentage of potential participants are identifying their vocations.

Secondary audiences

#We also believe that our secondary target audiences are:
  • School students before the grade of the #Primary audience, especially, while offering #In2job Career Camp.
  • Either school students in the graduation classes or school graduates before the age of majority, while offering #iDosvid specifically.
  • Any adult who is on the job market, plan to be there, and is going to be there, while offering #CNMCyber specifically.

What partners we look for

Key requirements

  1. Legal entity -- business, government, or not-for-profit
  2. Access to people who haven't identified their occupational objectives yet. If these people are minors, access to their legal guardians as well.

Partnership vs hiring

#The Partners differ from Careerprise contractors. #The Pitcher offers monetary compensation for contractors' services, while hiring contractors. #The Partners can be the contractors as well, but different agreements shall regulate these two roles.

What is to be negotiated

For the purposes of this wikipage, what is to be negotiated refers to those terms and conditions that #The Partners and #The Pitcher are welcome to negotiate; legally-binding agreements should include the agreed terms and conditions.

Agreement text

For the purposes of this wikipage, an agreement text refers to contents of a legally-binding agreement between #The Pitcher and one of #The Partners. Since every agreement is unique, those contents need to be created. If no better options are offered, a draft on the Educaship partner agreement‎ wikipage can be used to start with.
Among #What is to be negotiated items, agreement texts serve as capstone items. They shall include #Names of products, #Student motivation, and #Partner motivation.

Motivations

#We propose to negotiate both #Student motivation and #Partner motivation.

Names of products

Are the names listed in the #Our offerings section of this wikipage the best? Together, we can possibly adjust the names to a particular school, region, or anything else.

Student motivation

For the purposes of this wikipage, student motivation refers to motivation of #The Students beyond #Competency credentials and #Job offers.

Gifts

Such as smartphones, tablets, flashdrives, and laptops. What else? If nothing else, how? What procedures? Budgets?

Hospitality

Drinks, cookies, pizza, if reasonable and allowed. What else? If nothing else, how? What procedures? Budgets?

Reimbursements

For instance, the Internet access. What else? If nothing else, how? What procedures? Budgets?

Partner motivation

#We strongly believe that #The services we build, #The practice we envision, #The delivery we anticipate, and other #Student motivation would benefit #The Students, and, therefore, #The Partners. Beyond those, #We would love to negotiate #Administrative fees, #Academic exchange, and #Mutual marketing.

Administrative fees

Some nominal fees for administrating. What else? If nothing else, how? What procedures? Budgets?

Academic exchange

If #The Partners are going to visit Washington DC metro area, #We promise warm welcome and area tour! Although #The Pitcher doesn't consider funding trips and stays, #We can assure #Fundraising assistance in working on someone else's funding.

Marketing for partners

For the purposes of this wikipage, marketing for partners refers to our possible efforts to market services of #The Partners. The ideas to start with are as follows:

Compliance

#We would like to make sure that #The services we build and #The practice we envision comply with existing laws.

Employment Act

Kenya's Employment Act regulates employment in that country. Although this law doesn't define employment directly, it may imply that employment in Kenya is a contract, either written or oral, in which one party, an employer, orders another party, an employee, who is an individual, to render specified services, for which the law requires the employer to compensate that individual with wages and salaries.
The law doesn't distinguish between employment, experiential learning, and volunteering. Taking that law literally, one may suggest that schools shouldn't assign any work to students below 13 years of age, as well as pay their students for, let say, homework when they are above 13 years of age. Both theoretical suggestions are nonsense only if ones assume that every work not necessarily requires wages and salaries.
Furthermore, the law doesn't seem to distinguish between a paid employee and independent contractor; for instance, this difference is clarified in the United States in details -- https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/independent-contractor-self-employed-or-employee
#We don't plan to hire any participant as an employee. Even if #We wanted so, #We are a group of volunteers, not a legal entity. Thus, #We cannot be an employer by definition.
As a group of volunteers, #We are affiliated with #The Pitcher, which is incorporated in Michigan, United States, so Kenya's law may not apply. Unlike our experience with Kenyan laws, our expertise with the U.S. laws is solid. What is even more, #The Students would be practicing on CNM Lab Farm of #Opplet; this farm is physically located in Germany.
To sum up, #We are not going to employ #The Students as the labor law implies. To avoid any conflicts in complying with the Employment Act, #We would like to reach out to the Kenyan National Employment Authority.

Industrial Training Act

Kenya's Industrial Training Act regulates "industrial training", which it defines as "training for a specified industry". In the meanwhile, our training is not related to any specific industry.
Indeed, #The services we build have their limits. Simply put, #We don't plan to build anything beyond introductory work experience, career options, and guided entrances, normally, as apprentices, to the labour market.
For instance, #CNMCyber Bootcamps cover JavaScript, but do so barely to the extend for a participant to decide whether he or she likes to be a JavaScript developer or administrator. However, #We cannot provide and don't plan to provide #The Students with advanced training in that framework since #We deal with the #Learning sequence we use only.
If a graduate from #iDosvid would like to go to the upper stages of #The Pipeline, #VIT, which runs those stages, would connect him or her with advanced training providers. Once again, this matching and, consequently, professional training are beyond of our work's scope. #We develop and administer #CNMCyber, #iDosvid, and #In2job Career Camp only.
To sum up, #We are not going to provide #The Students with "industrial training" as the law defines. To avoid any conflicts in complying with the Industrial Training Act, #We would like to reach out to the Kenyan National Industrial Training Authority.

Used terms

On this very wikipage, a few abbreviations and terms are commonly used.

Brand

On this wikipage, a brand refers to a name that distinguishes services of #The Pitcher or #VIT from each other, as well as from those of other service providers. The brands are compared in the table below.
Brand names Purpose Owner
#Careerprise One-stop shop for career services (mostly, paid) #VIT
#CITPMA Entry-level credential in information technology and project management
#CNMCyber Volunteers and career services for them #The Pitcher
#Educaship Collaboration to combine #Apprenticeships and education
#EmployableU Presentations of general career concepts
#iDosvid School-to-work transition service
#In2job Personalized, but not one-on-one, help in navigation of career journeys
#KSACerts Credentials based on evaluations of specific #KSAs #VIT
#Opplet Technology behind #CNMCyber #The Pitcher
#WorldOpp Full-scope placement into entrepreneurship and/or employment

Careerprise

Careerprise is #VIT's one-stop shop for those who are on job markets, going to be there, or would like to be employed. The learners who are enrolled in Careerprise programs are supposed to pay for the services they receive and be paid for the services they render.
Careerprise's official website is Careerprise.com. Unlike #Our offerings, Careerprise is:
  • Not a single product. It is a store, in which buyers can choose what they need.
  • Not delivered by us; Careerprise is delivered by #VIT. The goal of Careerprise is not only provide its customers with career services, but also generate business revenue in order to run its operations. #VIT employs its staffers and use no volunteers. #VIT also deploys its own technology.
Nevertheless, #We collaborate with Careerprise programs because of the benefits to #The Students. They are welcome to acquire the services they need at no cost via our own products and, when they are ready to produce valuable services and be paid, switch to Careerprise. #The Students, as well as Careerprise participants, are welcome to go back and forth between #Our offerings and Careerprise as many times as they choose so.

CITPMA

CITPMA stands for Certified IT Project Management Associate, which is the trade certificate that #VIT issues to certify #KSAs of its holders in information technology and/or project management. CITPMA belongs to #KSACerts and is one of the #Certificates that #The Students earn when they get graduated from #iDosvid.

CNMCyber

The term, CNMCyber, initially referred to any digital extension of Career Network Ministry (CNM), where #We originally came from. As a group of volunteers, CNM organized physical meetings in Northern Virginia to support individuals during career transitions. Now, CNMCyber may refer to us, as well as to a few other phenomena such as:
Not only CNMCyber is identified with multiple things. Similarly, a name of a particular school may refer to its education, teachers, students, as well as place for study and work. With regards to its brand name, the goal of CNMCyber is to attract potential volunteers. #We market CNMCyber in order to recruit more volunteers to join us.

Educaship

Educaship is #The Pitcher's #Product line of market exchangeables that resulted from strategic partnerships with various educational institutions and employers. The educa- beginning of the term stands for education, while the -ship ending does so for #Apprenticeships. In addition to the partnerships, the line includes Educaship Fellowship and signature website, Educaship.com.

EmployableU

EmployableU, which is pronounced as employable you, is #The Pitcher's #Product line of market exchangeables designed to introduce career management concepts to the general public. The line includes #EmployableU Camp, #EmployableU Concepts, and its signature website, EmployableU.com.

In2job

In2job, which is pronounced as into-job, is #The Pitcher's #Product line of market exchangeables designed to navigate their customers in their career journeys. Although this help can be personalized through Q&A sessions, it falls short from one-on-one guidance that is available for participants of #iDosvid and/or volunteers of #CNMCyber. The In2job line includes #In2job Career Day and In2job.com, which is the signature website of this #Product line.

KSACerts

KSACerts are the trade certificates that #VIT develops, administers, and markets to certify #KSAs of their holders. Four #Certificates are available to #The Students:
  1. KSA Certified Event Organizer granted after successful completion of #Event-driven projects.
  2. KSA Certified Digital Developer to be earned in #Technology projects.
  3. KSA Certified Digital Operator to be earned in #Cloud operations.
  4. #CITPMA to be earned in #Endeavor coordination.
#VIT issues those certificates to #The Students based on the data that #We provide, as well as maintains the records. KSACerts' official website is KSACerts.com.

KSAs

On this wikipage, KSAs refer to knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA), which is a combination of the competencies that are required for particular professions, occupations, position, or a group of those. To certify KSAs, #VIT develops, administers, and markets #KSACerts.

MVP

On this wikipage, MVP refers to minimum viable product, which is service or technology at the state of functionality, but not usability yet.

Occupation

On this wikipage, an occupation refers to any profession and/or an employment position before it becomes one's #Target occupation.

Opplet.net

Opplet.net is the user management system of #Opplet.

Product line

On this wikipage, a product line refers to a group of market exchangeables that share both (1) a #Brand and (2) a common, managed set of features that satisfy specific needs of a selected market or mission. #We deal with several lines such as #CNMCyber, #EmployableU, #In2job, and #WorldOpp.

Professional groups

On this wikipage, Professional groups refer to CNMCyber communities such as CNM WordPress Users, CNM Jitsi Users, CNM MediaWiki Users, CNM Moodle Users, etc.

Target occupation

On this wikipage, a target occupation or a group of them is the professional destination that any of #The Students shall identify in order to be graduated from #iDosvid. In plain English, the graduate's target occupation is the job that the graduate from #iDosvid is encouraged to seek with or without upper stages of #The Pipeline. Target occupations may or may not be an #Occupation that #The Students touch during their practice.

The Mentors

For the purposes of this wikipage, the Mentors refer to both #Staffers on the ground and those members of our team who remotely act as mentors to #The Students. The Mentors' contributions are instrumental in providing #The Students with #Recommendations and #Student support. The Mentors may or may not be helpful in #Job-related networking.

The Partners

For the purposes of this wikipage, the Partners refer to legal entities that agree to bring #What we need to the partnership and both parties agree to collaborate on delivering #The practice we envision and/or #The services we build, as well as marketing of #Our offerings.
The #What partners we look for section of this wikipage contains our requirements to the Partners.

The Pipeline

For the purposes of this wikipage, the Pipeline refers to WorldOpp Pipeline. The Pipeline is the five-stage process that a not-job-ready individual goes through in order to land his or her job using #WorldOpp.
The Pipeline's stages are briefly described in the #Learning sequence we use section of this wikipage. #We run the first three stages of the Pipeline and #VIT runs the last two.

The Pitcher

For the purposes of this wikipage, the Pitcher refers to The Economic Group, which is a non-profit corporation that is incorporated in Michigan, United States. #The Pitcher provides the general public with its services free-of-charge.
The Pitcher's #Brand is behind #Our offerings. #CNMCyber, #EmployableU, #In2job, #Opplet, #Opplet.net, and #WorldOpp are also the Pitcher's brand names.
The Pitcher's official website is TheEconomicGroup.com. As a group of volunteers, #We are a part of the Pitcher.

VIT

On this wikipage, VIT refers to Virginia Institute of Technology LLC, which is a limited liability company, which headquarters are located in Chantilly, Virginia, U.S.A. #We don't represent VIT, but mention it because of the benefits it brings to #The Students. The primary examples are:
  1. VIT runs two upper stages of #The Pipeline, including #Apprenticeships.
  2. Based of the data that #We provide, VIT issues #KSACerts #Certificates to #The Students.
The department of business development of VIT is responsible for #Careerprise, #CITPMA, #KSACerts, and #The Pipeline products. Its official website is VIT4all.com.

VM

On this wikipage, a VM refers to a virtual machine, which each of #The Students shall personally receive for their practice as a part of #Workplace sandboxes.
The VMs run on Linux-alike Ubuntu operating system (OS). Physically located in a data center in Germany, CNM Lab Farm hosts those machines.
VMs come with all the personal software that #The Students may need in order to be successful. The software include OBS Studio and CNM WordPress instances with which #The Students may experiment personally, without their peer interruptions.

We

For the purposes of this wikipage, We, we, and us refer to CNMCyber Team, which is a group of volunteers who are affiliated with #The Pitcher. We develop #The services we build, administer #The practice we envision, and market #Our offerings.

WorldOpp

WorldOpp is the economic development programme that #The Pitcher develops, administers, and markets. This programme is built around #The Pipeline, which is the programme's backbone.
#The Pitcher also assigns the name of WorldOpp to a #Product line of those market exchangeables that are critical to #The Pipeline such as #WorldOpp Orientation. The WorldOpp signature website is WorldOpp.com.
As a part of #The Pitcher, #We develop, administer, and market the first three stages of #The Pipeline; they are offered to the general public free-of-charge. The overall programme features workforce development, employment, and entrepreneurship support especially in the under-served communities worldwide.
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