Archer Career
Role // 2023 Summer Intern

We are hiring a Summer Intern, maybe 1-3! You will join our start-up team to contribute to our growth stage by working on a specific project, getting exposure to an early stage start-up, and gaining valuable career skills..

About the job

In broad terms, you will be matched to a particular project which aligns business priorities to your interests. We are building off our progress to date with our market launch. In September 2020, we launched our software MVP, Archer Checklist and already have several customers using our 2 applications - Archer Checklist and Archer Case Prep. We several strategic partnerships in place with leading academic institutions (Chicago Booth, Univ. of Chicago, Babson College, Harvard Med School, Hope College, Illinois Tech, Univ. of Rochester and a few more!).

Your work as a Summer Intern will be to collaborate with our team to deliver your project and learn from the experience. Project areas include:

  • Business operations: Review and assess our current business operations, customer launches and internal processes. Review, benchmark, propose ideas, and work with the team to implement new ideas.

  • Product marketing: Apply digital marketing skills to develop ideas and execute our B2B marketing plans and awareness campaigns. This may involve work on our website, social media, email marketing, and product demos.

  • Data analytics: Build dashboards and analytics using Archer data. We collect survey data and data in our software, we want to find ways to evaluate and present to continue to define engagement and efficacy of our software.

  • Management/Human Resources: We value career and culture, and creating scalable operations. Work on a project to create the future of our customer success function. Create a best in class program, develop onboarding/training tools, develop position descriptions, and if approved, go forward with a hiring process.

The role and compensation

We are transparent with compensation (as well as all other aspects of the business). For 2023, the compensation structure for our interns will be as follows:

  • 10-12 week internship

  • $1,000-$3,000 monthly compensation (based on level of experience)

  • $100/monthly stipend for technology (internet/mobile phone)

  • Reside in Chicago the majority of the summer so we may have team meetings together weekly.

  • Work from home as you like or work from our Chicago Loop office. We work the way it makes sense.

  • Solid responsibilities with opportunity for impact and learning

  • 1-1 coaching and program participation to drive next year internship or full-time job search

What you bring

We are open to diverse backgrounds and are not looking for one specific profile. We care a great deal that you are a) passionate about our mission, b) enthusiastic to see a business grow, and c) want to make an impact within a team which could shape the professional outcomes of many and the future of our company.

The must have characteristics include:

  • Working on a degree, Bachelor’s, Masters, MBA, or other graduate (doctorate). Given our customers are degree-awarding institutions, this perspective is necessary.

  • A clear passion for career advancement. This is critical and should be clear during our application process.

  • High confusion tolerance and can work with adaptability/flexibility

  • Can work successfully given specific direction and guidance, open to feedback even when highly critical

  • Extreme empathy, optimism, encouraging, but kick-in-the-ass style - with origins in career coaching, we are 100% the champion for our clients. Sometimes we hug, sometimes, we deliver tough messages. You need to easily move through these styles.

  • Creative. We like to try things, pilot, be bold, be fun! You must be willing to say, “I tried it, it did not work! But, here is what I would do with the lessons learned.”

  • Clear, structured, and rigorous approach to work - you will need to track your activity using a CRM approach. We are nimble but we value process.

  • Strong, demonstrated interest in technology and its application to our business.

  • Excellent proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite. Knowledge of software applications including Invision, Tableau, Squarespace/Wordpress, project management software (we use Basecamp), etc. is a plus!

  • Strong and proactive communication skills, you won’t sit back, you will ask questions, share ideas, seek out clarity, update/inform the team - and do so both directly (by phone) and in writing (email or other).

  • Interest in working with a small team to contribute to our success, sharing and learning together, celebrating our success(es) and discussing our lessons learned.

Additional qualifications we believe helpful in this role:

  • Prior work doing coaching/mentoring/career advising, recruiting, or other career-focused activity.

  • Experience working in higher education, in education technology is also ideal.

Our application process

Our business is focused on career best practices and deep commitment to our mission. We have high expectations for our coaches. We kindly ask you to follow our application process and we will do our best to hold to our commitments on the employer side.

Our interview process typically has 3 steps. Step 1 // 30 min conversation with an Archer Career team member.. Step 2 panel interview with a short case discussion, presentation, or work product creation. We value your time and you will be compensated $50 for this step (by way of an Amazon gift card). Step 3 // Either an offer or a follow-up meeting with Archer Career’s CEO.

Your initial application should include the following:

  • Part 1: Resume (Note: we work on resumes as a core service offering - make yours good!). Ideally, this is one page.

  • Part 2: Answers, written thoroughly but concisely, to the following questions:

    • NOTE: Do NOT submit a cover letter. This is not needed and will be a negative attribute to your application.

    • Q1 - Why are you interested in working for Archer Career?

    • Q2 - What are your professional goals and how does this role contribute to them?

    • Q3 - What is your most significant accomplishment to date and what did you do to complete this achievement?

    • Q4 - What is the greatest challenge you have faced to this point, what lessons did you take from this experience.

    • Q5 - What do you believe you will contribute to our company if you join us?

    • Q6 - Review the Archer Career website. Identify 3 things that you believe represent product-market fit for for an early career professional. Highlight 3 strengths and 3 areas of improvement for the website.

APPLICATION DEADLINE:

We are reviewing applications on a rolling basis. We seek to hire 1-3 individuals for Summer 2023.

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Our team takes 1-2 business weeks to review applications. We will do our best to respond to you. Don’t panic if you don’t hear from us! We work very hard to be responsive but at times, our team has all hands on deck with projects. Welcome to the start-up environment!

To get further information

We encourage a thorough review of our website - www.archercareer.com - and our LinkedIn profiles. You may also seek out further information by networking. If we don’t get back to your right away, we can be busy with our launches and customers/partners. Be patience. Be creative!