Arab Interns is an online platform that aims to connect college students and fresh graduates with internship opportunities at companies in the Gulf and Middle East regions. The platform uses an algorithm to automatically match candidates to openings based on their qualifications and analyzes applicants' strengths and weaknesses. It aims to make the application process easier for students and help companies find top talent more efficiently. The platform has received recognition, winning or placing in several innovation competitions. It was founded to address the large gap in internship opportunities available to students in the Arab world.
Arab Interns is an online platform that aims to connect college students and fresh graduates with internship opportunities at companies in the Gulf and Middle East regions. The platform uses an algorithm to automatically match candidates to openings based on their qualifications and analyzes applicants' strengths and weaknesses. It aims to make the application process easier for students and help companies find top talent more efficiently. The platform has received recognition, winning or placing in several innovation competitions. It was founded to address the large gap in internship opportunities available to students in the Arab world.
Arab Interns is an online platform that aims to connect college students and fresh graduates with internship opportunities at companies in the Gulf and Middle East regions. The platform uses an algorithm to automatically match candidates to openings based on their qualifications and analyzes applicants' strengths and weaknesses. It aims to make the application process easier for students and help companies find top talent more efficiently. The platform has received recognition, winning or placing in several innovation competitions. It was founded to address the large gap in internship opportunities available to students in the Arab world.
Arab Interns" is an innovative platform designed to connect college students and fresh graduates with growing companies in the Gulf and MENA through internships. Arab Interns is a "UNIQUE SERVICE SOLUTION" that will enhance the Cultural & Economical status regionally. Technically, "Arab Interns" will use technology in order to reinvent the internship application by introducing a unique market based intelligent module by applying an algorithm that automatically select the best candidate for the internship market available. Our platform will provide highly qualified candidates/talents for employers, a dashboard for universities to track their students' performance and finally delivering our slogan "Internships Made Easy", Students will have the opportunity to find an internship that will give them a real world experience in an "Easy.Simple.Engaging" approach! Arab Interns is a developing idea that have reached great milestones and currently the team is developing an advanced platform for better market penetration as well better services .
Milestones: Winner of Intel Berytech Innovation Challenge Finalist at Intel Business Challenge MENA 2013 Semi-Finalist at Global Innovation through Science and Technology (GIST) Tech I Finalist at ArabNet Riyadh 2014 The How The platform offers great social values as it address three major segments in a market that has a huge gap and no presences of such solution that will dramatically assist students in the Arab region to find internships allowing them to have adequate experience that will open new horizons for them in their future career. Arab Interns redefines the internship application by adding a new process that is based on our technology named QA (Qualification Assessment) or our secret sauce, where it will offer students a full analysis report with weakness & strengths & saves corporations Time & Money by Increasing the Quality of Interns while reducing the time to go through stacks of resumes. Value Propositions: For Students: - Internship Application Made Easy - Unique Qualifications Assessment Report ( Technology Based ) - Increase Employment Opportunities - Gaining Practical Experience - Online Advisor/Prof. Recommendation For Companies: - Top / Talented Candidates Guaranteed Executive Summary
- Unique Selection Platform - Social Hiring Experience - Intern Utilization Advice Universities: - Jobs VS Students Market Analysis - Semester's Ranking Publishing The innovation is based on addressing the huge market gap available by offering an economical & social solution for the Arab Region with the assist of new technology means. The Why : Almost 3 million young people enter the job market each year in the Arab world. Job creation is the most challenging issue facing the region: the youth unemployment rate is nearly double the global rate and has risen steadily over the past three years. Arab Interns is facing this challenge by addressing SME's to offer Internships as SME's represent 90 % of the economic development.
Based on Research & Studies by International Organizations (World Bank, Booz & Co, Deloitte and WEF) Market Facts: - No. Of Ranked Universities in Arab World 700 University - Based on only 65 Universities in the Arab Region > 1,300,000 Yearly College Students Enrolled. - 2.8 million young people entering the labor markets yearly ( Arab World Competitiveness Report ) - Small & Medium Enterprises (> 3,000,000 SME's) & Large companies regionally. Unfortunately there has been no web platform that is internship oriented in the Arab Region until this moment and thats what make Arab Interns Unique, but there is indirect competitors such as old fashioned way, career university offices but we will also be partnering with them as it gives their students more chances to find internships. The Team : Arab Interns team consist of passionate young students who shows huge dedication to the project and love , all team members are on the top on their university grade scale which qualifies them in their field of expertise , the team consist of web developer , web Designer , Graphics designer , social media guru , & the management founders .
Our founder Aladdin always pursued out innovative solutions to challenging problems in our community, Regardless of the task or challenge Aladdin believes Arab Interns is successful because it's a unique idea, and it's powered by the energy and passion of its young team members. Our Co-Founder Mooneer has led the success of many stimulating projects in our community, His experience with global organizations brings the best to the success of Arab Interns .He always believes in the power of youth & their abilities to be revenue generators .
Executive Summary
From Idea to a Startup Strategy: Arab Interns is taking two roads for transforming the idea to a startup, Bootstrapping & Competitions Participations; we are developing the platform by ourselves and will complete all project phases such as research, platform development, marketing with the means of bootstrap and the assistance of family & friends. On the other hand we are applying to competitions in order to fasten up the process which will allow us to get mentorship for the project that will help us to make sure we are following the right track.
Arab interns has developed a strategic market penetration plan and will be piloting at Lebanon partnering with pioneer universities available where they have launched their beta version at the beginning of the year 2014 as well it is getting assistance from serial entrepreneurs available in their community . Moreover it is worth to mention that Arab interns has already started building its fan bases using social media and have more the 8,000 followers !