Welcome to Riipen!
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First off, thank you for choosing Riipen! We're delighted to have you and your organization using our platform to help achieve your goals. By joining Riipen's online marketplace not only are you getting brand awareness within universities, student and millennial insights, and finding the next top talent to recruit, but you're also helping to end graduate underemployment and are giving students and young professionals a better chance to build careers. Each experience you and your organization participate in gives another group of students a chance to get valuable "real-world" knowledge and credentials. We hope that the next time you ask your young job candidate, "what experience do you have?" they'll be able to tell you about their professional projects on Riipen.
About This Guidebook
You can treat this short document as a virtual guide to your Riipen onboarding journey. This guidebook outlines all the skills you will learn and all the steps you will go through to become an active user on our platform. We feel that anyone that goes through this simple step-by-step process will be fully equipped with the skills needed to be successful at whatever their mission on Riipen is. Whether you are here to recruit emerging talent, get millennial insights, or increase brand awareness, this guidebook will get you started on the right track and will be something you can refer back to as you progress through our video conference onboardings and in-app platform walkthroughs.
What you will find in this Guidebook:
- An Onboarding Checklist: This will help you keep track of your learning of the Riipen platform.
- A Timeline of your User Journey: This will help you keep track of where you are in the process of finding students and educators to work with.
Onboarding Checklist
Action: Check off the skills and tasks you complete during your Riipen onboarding and your first experiences on the platform. Completing these checklists will ensure that you've learned what you need to have success on the platform. For specific instructions on how to complete these actions, visit:
https://app.riipen.com/help/riipen-academy/employers.
Account Creation: | Goal: | Completed: |
Add profile picture. | Let students know who they are talking to. | |
Add branded banner images. | Get brand exposure. | |
Complete your organization's profile. | Inform the market what your company is all about. | |
Tag your categories of interest. | Get found in our marketplace based on the project you want to start. |
In-Class Project Creation: | Goal: | Completed: |
Use a Project Template in the project wizard. | Start creating your project from one of our templates created by experts. | |
Add project details and the resources you will provide. | Clearly show what you want the students to accomplish. | |
List the incentives you will provide top students. | Give the students an added incentive to do their best work for you. | |
Include a video URL link. | Show off your organization. |
Marketplace Experience: | Goal: | Completed: |
Browse the Assignment Library. Start here: How to use the Marketplace | Find an educator to collaborate with! | |
Use filters to sort assignments by categories you're interested in. | Customize your search to find the right educator and students for you. | |
Click "Join as Organization" and apply to an assignment with your project. | Get your existing project ideas in front of educators. Start a conversation with them! | |
Click "Join as Organization" and apply to an assignment with a new project created specifically for that assignment. | Fast-track a match by create a project that fits exactly what an educator's class of students can deliver. |
Challenge Creation: | Goal: | Completed: |
Use a Challenge Template in the challenge wizard. | Start creating your project from one of our templates created by experts. | |
Add Challenge details and the resources you will provide | Clearly show what you want the students to accomplish. | |
List the incentives you will provide top students. | Give the students an incentive to do their best work. |
Ready to Get Started?
Check out this link for all our virtual walkthroughs. They'll give you a guided tour of the platform and show you how it's done!
User Journey
Let's Get Started!
No time like the present - get your project ideas into the marketplace! Follow this link to take the virtual walkthrough and learn how to do it.