TRU short-term projects
General
- Undergraduate; 4th year, 1st year, 3rd year, 2nd year, Senior
- 20 learners; individual projects
- 80 hours per learner
- Dates set by experience
- Learners self-assign
Preferred companies
- 10/20 project matches
- Canada
- Academic experience
- Startup, Social enterprise, Non profit, Large enterprise, Any
- Food & beverage, Entertainment, Manufacturing, Business services, Government
Categories
Skills
Project timeline
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October 26, 2022Experience start
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January 1, 2023Experience end
Overview
- Details
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Thompson Rivers University is seeking proposals for several 80-hour projects from a variety of organizations.. Organizations need only to present their real-world problems to solve and groups of students or individual students will select the projects to work on for the term of the experiential learning opportunity.
Bring on one more student(s) from Thompson Rivers University to work with you in a project-based experience. Students are available for up to 80 hours. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, student placements will only occur virtually.
- Learner skills
- Advertising, Promotion, Sales & marketing, Marketing strategy, Research
- Deliverables
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Deliverables will vary depending on the scope of the project. The student should complete 80 hours with your organization.
Typical final project deliverables could include:
- Final project report
- Digital Marketing Project plans
- Completed data sets for unique project goals
- Final presentations and supporting documents, manuals etc.
Project Examples
Students at TRU come from a variety of educational backgrounds and can complete a substantial project for your organization over the experiential learning period.
Due to the variety of student educational backgrounds, project examples that students can complete may include, but are not limited to:
(1) Digital Market Research:
• Research a target market segment and/or consumer base for insights into best practices and marketing potential.
• Provide comparative analysis for a given market against other similar entities.
• Include recommendations and examples for business generation and outreach.
• Great for: start-ups, tech, finance, quite literally any type of company!
(2) Public Relations and communications
- Perfect for a variety of organizations
(3) Data Analytics:
• Compiling, cleaning, processing, warehousing, etc. of any type of data relevant to your operations and your goals.
• Research on data tools and recommendations for how to automate, collect, house, and/or improve your future/ongoing analytics processing needs.
• Great for: healthcare, innovation, regulatory, sales, digital technology-focused companies, etc.
Additional company criteria
Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:
Commitment to providing feedback on project milestones (Project Plan, Draft Deliverable, Final Project Deliverable) and virtual attendance at students’ final project presentation.
Commit to a minimum of one hour per week, over eight-10 weeks’ worth of group interactions with your assigned student team remotely. These meetings with you are likely to question/answer sessions or requests for additional information or clarification based on project content.
Provide a dedicated contact to answer occasional emails or phone calls to address significant student questions in a timely manner (a 48 hour-response time.)
Commit to completing a short formative (midpoint) survey and summative (final) survey for the overseeing Experiential Learning Coordiantor at Thompson Rivers University
Virtual work engagement with students and provision of all necessary materials in order to set students up for project execution success, including any relevant context, data, examples of deliverables.
Be available for a quick phone call with the Thompson Rivers University Experiential Learning Coordinator to initiate your relationship and confirm your scope is an appropriate fit for the course and explore additional opportunities for partnership with the University.