Cláudia Correia, Margarida Teles, Patrícia Cabral, Robert Kriegl

“Your Window to the Future”

Agenda

Interviews

Value Curves

Landing Page

Surveys

Outlook

Interviews

International Students

• The Majority of international students work during their studies (15/20); most of them in their home country (12/20) and a smaller part also abroad

 • During their university spare time, the vast majority of

students work (16/20); most of them in SME (10/20) and the rest in bigger companies (4) or different organizations

 • Most of them work for almost all their vacation

(12/20); others for a shorter time • Regarding time, almost all international students don’t

think that they have enough time to work during their studies abroad (16/20).

Interviews

International Students

• Almost all people liked the idea and the concept in general (18/20)

• Things the people mostly liked about the concept: personal assistance, can choose things that you really want to do, community with other people

• What they thought, which could be some disadvantages: hard to attract people

• Some would pay between 10-25€ (7/20) if they find a suitable internship through the website

 

Interviews

International Students

• The Majority of international students work during their studies (15/20); most of them in their home country (12/20) and a smaller part also abroad

 • During their university spare time, the vast majority of

students work (16/20); most of them in SME (10/20) and the rest in bigger companies (4) or different organizations

 • Most of them work for almost all their vacation

(12/20); others for a shorter time • Regarding time, almost all international students don’t

think that they have enough time to work during their studies abroad (16/20).

Interviews

Portuguese Students

• The Majority of Portuguese students don’t work while studying but they work on their vacations

• Almost all Portuguese students think that there is time to reconcile studies with work

• Doesn’t exist in Portugal a concept like StudentsTry but students think it should exist

• The existing websites are not sufficiently clear and helpful or even suitable for students

• Students won’t be able to pay for the service and just a few would pay for personal assistance

Interviews

Young and Unemployed People

• The Majority of Young and Unemployed people valuate the variety of offers on job websites not very good (e.g. Lack of qualified offers)

• Most of them are missing more opportunities, more varieties, and a better organization of the website

• Generally, all participants had a very good first impression of the concept (described it as very interesting, wonderful)

• Just (3/20) showed a WTP for the service

• No interviewed person would be willing to pay for personal assistance

Value Curves

Main Attributes and Competitors

StudentsTryTrabalhotemporario.pt (Temporary Jobs)

Net-Empregos (Full-time/Part-

time Jobs)

Estagiar.pt (Internships)

Design 6 6 1 4Variety of

Offer/Number of Partnerships

7 5 4 3

Service easiness 6 3 4 5

Convenience/Accessibility

5.5 2 5 2

Registration speed

4.5 7 3 3

Price 3 7 7 7Languages available

7 1 1 1

Career Advising 6 4 1 5

Value Curves

StudentsTry vs Net-Empregos

Value Curves

StudentsTry vs Estagiar.pt

Value Curves

StudentsTry vs Trabalhotemporario.pt

Landing Page

Landing Page Link: http://patyarc.wix.com/studentstry

Surveys

Script

10 Questions

2 Versions: Portuguese and English

Surveys

Script

Outlook

Interviews to the 3 target segments

Interviews to the companies (In progress)

Landing Page

Value Curves

Surveys (In progress)

Questions & Comments

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