Back in 2003, I created a job board in France dedicated to internships.
Along the years, More than 10.000 companies posted job offers there.
At that time, it made sense to have synergies between the students and alumni social network I had created, and this website. But when I sold Trombi.com in 2006, these synergies were not possible anymore and I didn’t have time to take care of it.
For many years, the market has been dominated by another player, iQuesta.com.
Now, other services are active that I find interesting… Studentpop where companies can book students to do small jobs. Around 700 companies and 12.000 students are registered in 30 cities. Blablacar, Deliveroo, Kusmi tea, Lagardere active, Hopscotch, France digitale, Sézane, Leroy Merlin, Fritchi, Danone are among those companies. Could be for an event as an hostess, a barman, a waiter, street marketing, product testing, call center, market studies, merchandising, selling in a shop, preparing orders, logistics, inventory, administrative tasks… Student Pop was created in 2016 and raised 3 million euros (https://www.edsurge.com/news/2018-12-04-student-pop-nabs-3-4-million-to-help-students-find-short-term-work and https://www.eu-startups.com/2018/12/student-pop-raises-funding/) . According to Ouriel Darmon the founder, 80% of students work while studying, 50% students work regularly. They also bought Merito in order to help start “Student Work”. Merito has 50.000 registered students.
I stumbled upon Meritocracy.is/en/ today while looking for Merito. Meritocracy claims “Visit Europe’s most innovative Companies, explore their workspaces, join their teams.”. This service is used by companies like N26, Kreditech, VF, Flixbus, Coya
Niche…