Student + Intern = Stutern. Great.
I like this idea a lot. Because of Nigeria’s broken educational system, internship is a problematic concept for most undergrads. Due to strikes and all kinds of internal unrests, a lot of schools are perpetually catching up with the calendar, and the obvious sacrifice is the three month holiday that students would typically use for internships or some other productive endeavour. There is thus no internship season where companies can expect to take on students who want to give their time in return for experience and a stipend.
During months of ASUU strikes, I was able to find work as a construction site clerk (I got promoted to an air-conditioned office a week later after I used my fresh knowledge of Excel to insanely optimise their payroll processes), but not all my peers were that lucky. By the time the strikes were over and we returned to our books, it was common to be missing a number of people who had been taken by prison or pregnancies. You know what they say about idle hands.
By creating a discovery platform, Stutern might be able to facilitate the connection between students seeking engagement and experience, and companies seeking cheap labour regardless of the fact that there is no internship season in Nigeria. Site looks to be working well, and if the email I got asking Big Cabal to sign up as a company is any indication, the team is working hard on creating audience liquidity, so that the platform is not a ghost town. I think there is a little more friction than is necessary in the user on-boarding process, but they only just started, so I’ll allow.
Interestingly, they seem to be somewhat shy right now, so we couldn’t get them to interview for TechCabal. I’m watching them though.