Okay, let's get into this ✊
There are two reasons why Startup Intern exists. The Startup Side and the Intern side. Let's get to each one by one.
I was working on hiring interns at a previous startup of mine. The obvious name that pops up when you want to hire interns in India is Internshala. The next is Angelist. These are the two main channels where Indian startups hire interns.
We posted a job on Internshala. It was up after a review. A few days later, we checked in to see the applications. There were a lot of them. Here lies the problem(for startups). There are a lot of people who get to apply for your internship post.
We spend the next 60 minutes or so just hitting the "Reject" button. We shortlisted and interviewed about 8 candidates. None were selected for the role.
So we wasted multiple hours of time posting a job, reviewing applications, resumes, reading copy-pasted notes on why they wanted this job, rejecting, shortlisting, chatting, interviewing... and ended up getting nowhere ☹️
This is the case with most startups that post jobs on platforms like Internshala. A lot of time wasted for non-targeted applicants and no return.
So I decided to change it with Startup Intern 💪
Every #StartupIntern goes through a vetting process before they even get to apply for your job. We send their details to you over email, so you don't have to log in and check who has applied. As a startup it's always good to have just 8 applicants of whom you hire 3 vs. having to sort through 100s of shitty applications, of which you hire none.
It's not just startups though, the interns who really, genuinely want to work for good companies also face issues.
As an intern, it's not very easy to navigate around internshala to get what you want.
The stipends are also too low. There are literally companies posting low or no stipend jobs on Internshala + asking the interns to pay for work. How crazy is that? Most internships focus on getting work extracted from interns without delivering any value to them 💢
For the top 10% skilled students, all this was a problem. The good people would rather apply for good internships that compensate well instead of having to spray and pray.
Startup Intern solves for them too, by delivering the best internships, according to their preferences ✨
You could see more horror stories about platforms like Internshala and Angelist on Joshua Fluke's YouTube channel.
At Startup Intern, we feel deeply about the broken internship ecosystem in India and are building something that would fix it. That's what entrepreneurship is all about, after all 😉