Amis Mentors

In Latam, one year after college graduation, 25% of graduates are still looking for work. One of the main causes is that 89% of companies feel that grads aren´t sufficiently prepared for the work world.

What if students could learn what to expect from each industry, and learn the insights to prepare?

Amis Mentors, is a platform that connects students with the knowledge of CEOs and directives from all industries, that prepare them for the work world. They access pre-recorded videos of top executives from Google, Netflix, Pepsi, etc, who share their day to day, tips for building needed skills in their industry, key-topics to apply in that industry, advantages for the interview, and more!  

If a student needs to find his vocation, the app offers a vocational program where he can access a pensum of mentorships for each industry/area, while the app measures his affinity with each career path.

Unemployment among college graduates

- One year after college graduation, 25% of graduates are still looking for work. Career websites and headhunters in each region conclude that one of the main causes for recent grad unemployment is that companies feel that grads are not sufficiently prepared for the work world.

- Only 11% of companies assure that the education of their employees is appropriate for the fulfillment of their tasks - elempleo.com

A global survey made by the World Economic Forum revelead that students don't feel prepared to face the world of work, they rated the relevance of what they learned in college with 59/100.

- 85% of students in Latam don't know what working life will be in their profession - Instituto de Investigación en Psicología Clínica , Mexico 

An app that connects those looking for career guidance, with the knowledge of CEOs and directives from recognized companies in multiple industries. The user shares his interests regarding the industry and the area where he’d like to work,and the app gives him access to the pre-recorded videos of the mentors that match what his looking for. People can access the day to day, hiring secrets, and questions they'll confront in an interview, from the people that they’d probably encounter in their next job interview. We count with +150 CEOs and directives from Google, Netflix, Pepsi, L’Oreal, Lego, and more!).

Also, if a student needs to find his vocation, the app offers a vocational program where he can access a pensum of mentorships for each industry and area, while the app measures his affinity with each industry and area.

Our target population are all college and university students, who want to acquire knowledge for a professional future, where they currently make a career choice decision without full and clear knowledge of the usability of a career and the future development framework. Mentors is developed from a market study collected by more than 1,500 students aged from 14 years to 20 years, where the most important result is the ignorance of the real life use of a career and the need for inspiration in their future

the challenge:"How can under-resourced populations across Latin America and the Caribbean develop the necessary skills to access good jobs, better opportunities, and overall well-being?"

How can these populations develop the "necessary skills" to access good jobs and better opportunities if 85% of graduates don't even know what they'll confront in the work world? if they don't know what does the the industries' needs in terms of hard and soft skills? 

Amis connects you to the needs of each industry, and guides you so that you can prepare yourself to the requirements of the industry, all given by the loudest voices in each area.

We started selling the solution 1 month ago and we have implemented it in more than 10,000 students from schools and universities in Colombia and Costa Rica. In the last month, 1,000 schools' principals and university directives have subscribed in our marketing campaign showing a deep pain and necessity in the education industry for connecting with the work world.

Our solution has a component of match with the ideal mentor, where it understands the vocational profile of the user and connects it with that of the mentor both in terms of interests, tastes, and expectations of their future. We are innovative, by not focusing on the current skills of the student and thereby generating a pull of possibilities, if not to go further understanding their profile and giving them real and inspirational knowledge that allow them to be motivated for a future purpose.

Our user does not certify or see a mentoring of a public figure, he obtains a result of affinity to a career or industry based on the content he has seen and his profile, which gives him a metric of his potential decision

Our solutions is based in AI algorithms. First a Natural language processing algorithm analyzes the initial form that users have to develop in order to understand the hobbies and interests they have in open questions. This is crucial in order to better understand the profile of the user and generate the best match with the perfect mentor. So for example, a girl who's studying law and loves the automotive industry, could make match with Jorge Vallejo, the current CEO of Mitsubishi and Renault alliance in Mexico. He has a law degree and his entire life has worked in the legal area.

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One of our benefits is that there are not direct risks generated by the solution.

Currently: 10,000 students and college graduates

1 year: 150,000 students and college graduates

5 years: 1,000,000 students and college graduates

We are sure that for access to better jobs or generation of entrepreneurship, a timely vocational process is required. Understanding that from the career and industry choice that is taken, a path of professional experience is generated, which is why we bet that by 2022 we can be with this program in 80 schools as a training process from the schools in 6th grade From now on, in alliance with 50 universities serving at least 150,000 students a guide to their choice of professional area and industry. And in 5 years to have a presence throughout Latin America with an impact from school to the first job

Number of students who have completed more than 2 mentoring

Number of students who have a career or industry affinity <50%

Number of students who have a career or industry affinity> 85%
Number of messages / questions sent to the mentor

7 full time staff

The team launched a startup as a team in the past. Between 2015 and 2020, a tool that allowed students to report anonymously issues of the school and coexistence problems. We´ve learned and evolved from our past experience in the edtech segment.
The team also founded a foundation that covers 150 kids in the rural areas of Colombia and teach them Python
The founders have known each other for +7 years, and have launched foundations initiatives in Colombia with more than 10,000 kids covered with food in dangerous areas.
We have the business savvy area, the statistical, tech-development, and even educational areas covered (all aspects needed in Amis).
One of the cofounders have been in private equity firm for 3yrs, and has worked as a school teacher covering educational and business knowledge. The CTO cofounder civers development and statistical knowledge, and has experience in finance & environmental multinational companies using statistical & development solutions

We evaluate each new member as a group and vote for the new entrance, assuring fairness and transparency.

Tprize would represent a door-opener in universities and schools for Amis. A stamp like this would facilitate the entrance and adoption within a university community worldwide, and would also represent a validation giving trust to decision makers and influencers within the institutions who are interested in adopting the program, therefore reducing the closing-time of each business opportunity.

TPrize would also give us the opportunity to connect with MIT as apossible partner, or at least the validation to enter into the MIT alumni angels association where we could also find the strategic partners/investor we're looking for.

We need help in the accelerating process.

A partnership that could open doors in universities, alumni associations or schools is needed.

A strategic partner like a renowned university could bring trustworthiness to the service increasing the adoption in other universities worldwide, and accelerating the commercial process with each entity.

An ed publisher like Cengage, McGrawHill, could also be beneficial given these factors. We also would be a strategic investment for them, because Amis gathers data about students' interests, allowing them to create built to suit content that they can sell to these students/graduates.

We'd like to partner with renowned universities, ed publishers or other influential institutions in the education sector, where they could bring the stamp and their recognition to the table, and we gave them 20% of the income while also giving them data about students' interests, allowing them to create built to suit content/courses that they can sell to these students/graduates.