UNDER REVIEW - Overview on the Business Automation (AI-APP-SOP-RPA-BPM) Learning-ship Pathways & Levels and Courses & Programs description and conditions

You can find in this article full information about our different Business Automation (AI-APP-SOP-RPA-BPM) Learning-ship Pathways and Programs description and conditions.

Content

Target

This article is addressed to the following Readers:

• Applicants and Candidates to the different proceedit Learning-ship Pathways and Programs.

Summary

We offer you the possibility to participate in one of ours Business Automation (BPM-RPA-AI) Learning-ship Pathways and Programs with different modes, duration, dedication, commitment, modalities, fees and compensations which are fully described in this article.

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Background

proceedit is offering different Business Automation (BPM-RPA-AI) Learning-ship opportunities since late 2017 having welcomed more that 100 learners since that date.

Company, market, product & organization

Company information

proceedit is a start-up project which has just been launched to the market. For the last almost ten years, we have been developing and fully testing a unique disruptive technology in the area of Business Process Automation Solutions (based on BPM-RPA-AI technologies) and servicing them on a Software as a Service (SaaS), Standard Operating Procedures as a Service (SOPaaS), Business Process as a Service (BPaaS) and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) model through the Cloud.

In a few months’ time, we will be successfully competing with the main actors in this sector etc. thanks to our dynamic no-code AI engines that will permits us to develop complex business automation solutions 5 times faster and reduce 10 times their future service, support and maintenance load once in operation, compared with using the best current technology.

Business automation market information

Business automation market is a multi-category market composed by the aggregation of BPM, RPA, AI, BPaaS and BPO sub-markets.

Roughly speaking, there are around 100 K different business process automation solution classes identified worldwide (5 to 10 K for each main business sector or industry) with approximately 21 million organizations worldwide (private and governmental with 50+ employees) being potential customers for these products, and affecting around 2.4 Billion employees. These figures mean that this market has no future growing limits (market estimations expect a growing factor higher than 20 % per year).

Based on the above factors, a huge growing market combined with the availability of our new disruptive technology, we think working on this IT business sector represents a big challenge and a very exciting career opportunity for undergraduate, graduate and young professionals, not only with technical skills but also willing to work on business administration, marketing, sales, operations ... areas.

Products

proceedit products are a combination of different advanced of dynamic, on-demand and on-the-fly AI engines that produce different types of outcomes in form of no-code Business Automation Assets as it is described in the following table:

proceedit`s Branches & Units:

Our company is organized into 4 branches and 14 Units. as it is described in the following table:

For all of them, we organize Learning-ships programs related to several different topics and technologies wherein you will be able to develop your professional career according to your personal will, once you have obtained the required basic skills. 

CAREER PLAN

The proceedit’s Career Plan is a combination of Pathways & Levels, and Courses & Programs as described here below:

• Pathway: we have two Pathways in our Career Plan, the Volunteer one, which is free-of-charge and reserved to students, and the Professional one which is priced and dedicated to young employees and freelancers.

• Level: is a combination of Courses and / or Programs that in total configure a certain dedication effort: 450 hours, 900 hours and 1,800 hours for the Specialist, Expert and Master Levels, respectively.

• Course: is a fix set of learn-by-doing predefined assignments to be done, the same for all Learners, organized in Tasks (around 1 hour), Topics (around 5 hours), Chapters (30 hours) and Modules (150 hours).

• Program: is a dynamic set of learn-by-doing assignments to be done, personalized for each Learner, organized in sub-Tasks, Tasks and Projects.

Our Learning-ships Courses & Programs can introduce you to different areas of knowledge and also help you to decide  which area could be a convenient field of knowledge and experience for your future career development, 

Participating in one or several of ours Learning-ship Pathways different Levels by following our different Courses & Programs, is the first required step to be admitted as a regular worker in our company and will open you the door to develop a future long-term professional career in our company as a programmer, designer, developer, analyst, service agent, consultant, team leader, project manager, business promoter, etc.

PATHWAYS & LEVELS

Pathways

We can propose the realization of two different Learning-ship Pathways with different Levels each:

• Volunteer Pathway. Non-paid, free-of-charge Learning-ships Courses and Programs.

• Professional Pathway. Non-paid, priced Learning-ships Courses and Programs.

Levels

For each Pathway we have different Levels proposals as indicated in the following table:

You can find the main differences of our Pathways here below:

You can find the complete description and conditions of the different Learning-ship Pathways and Levels on this Tab learning-ship_pathway_level_specs

Modalities

Our Learning-ships programs can be done part-time or full-time and no physical presence is strictly required although it is convenient when possible. However, frequent contact via Jira Issues comments, Google Chat and Hangout will be essential to help you boost your progress.

Time to enroll

Our programs are continuous, you can enroll whenever you want because the assignment of tasks, revision and coaching is done personalized for each learner and at the right time according to the his / her progress.

Coaching

During the Learning-ship Programs, you can count on the continuous assistance of our staff and receive documentation and other training, test and working material, free access to our support languages, frameworks, applications and systems (Google Suite, Jira, Confluence, GitHub, AWS, PostgresSQL, Bonita, dyPAS, Flutter, Dart, Aqueduct, GraphQL, Talend, Figma ...) and attendance to remotely and presently meetings, workshops, webinars, etc.

Project

In case you are coursing a master, university or school degree, the work done during the Learning-ship programs can be used as your degree project and the hours worked could count as course credits this, of course, depending on the policies applied by your academic institution. In that case, we are willing to sign the corresponding agreements and documents with you and your academic institution.

Thesis

You can also combine the realization of your thesis with the work done in our Learning-ship Programs provided that your thesis tutor will accept it and we can find a topic aligned with the objectives of the three parts: you, your thesis tutor and ourselves. In this case, a 6 months full-time 900 hours dedication for the Master thesis and 1,800 hours dedication for the PD Thesis will be recommend with a consistent minimum dedication of 36 hours per week, week after week, and 150 hours per month, month after month.

Attendants

Since late 2017, our Learning-ship Programs have already been followed by more than 100 learners coming from many different countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Iran, Ireland, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Libya, Mexico, Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sudan, Taiwan, Tunisia, Turkey, UK, Ukraine, USA, Vietnam, Venezuela, Yemen... etc.

Prerequisites

To participate in one of our Learning-ship Pathways you must fulfill the following prerequisites:

Studies level:

• Coursing the last course or having coursed a Bachelor, Master and PhD degree depending on the Learning-ship Level to be followed.

Specialties coursed:

• Technical (Information & Computing Sciences, Telecommunications, Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Statistics …).

• Business (Business Administration, Marketing, Law, Six Sigma, Lean Management …).

• Social (Public Relations, Art & Design, Communication, Linguistics, Philosophy …).

• Operations.

Languages: 

• All the written communications and support materials and contents of the programs are in English. 

• Interns must have a Proficiency C1 English level recommended, B2 minimum required.

Other requisites:

• Erasmus plus mobility, Campus Mundi or other similar programs could be convenient although not mandatory.

• Some knowledge on programming languages is recommended, although it is not mandatory, except for the learners to be enrolled in our Technology Branch Units.

• We are not necessarily requiring previous working experience although some user experience with enterprise automation applications development or usage is recommended.

Commitments

By enrolling in our Learning-ship Programs you will commit to:

• For part-time Learning-ship, a regular work of minimum 18 hours per week is strictly required, every week, during all the duration of the Learning-ship period when you are following a Volunteer Pathway.

• For full-time Learning-ship, a regular work of minimum 36 hours per week is strictly required, every week, during all the duration of the Learning-ship period when you are following a Volunteer Pathway.

• For learners following a presently Volunteer Learning-ship, the minimum of 9 (part-time) / 18 hours (full-time) per week must be done presently in our office in Barcelona.

• Attendance to all weekly remote meetings is absolutely mandatory.

• The use of our systems (Google Workspace, Jira, Confluence & GitHub) for working, reporting, attaching documents, pushing code and logging time on Tasks assigned is absolutely mandatory.

• Complete the minimum dedication established for each Learning-ship Pathway.

Erasmus or similar internship programs

Learners following a Volunteer Pathway not fulfilling the above-indicated commitments will be expelled from the Learning-ship Program and, consequently, if they were enrolled in a Erasmus or similar program they will not receive the internship during and after mobility certificates.

Be sure to have understood the above conditions before enrolling with us as part of the Erasmus or other similar internship programs to follow one of our Volunteer Pathway Programs. Take in account that not receiving the after mobility certificate will create you serious troubles with the Erasmus or other similar internship programs administration (you will have to give back the money received).

Our Learning-ship Programs have a minimum duration of 6 months. Therefore, if your Erasmus or other similar internship program grant is for less than 6 months, you will have to begin the proceedit Learning-ship in advance by working remotely.

Financing and Compensation Plan

No financial compensation is allowed by proceedit to our Learning-ship doers but you can obtain funds to cover your scholar fees, transport and living expenses when coming to Barcelona, by participating as a promoter in our crowdfunding projects via GoFundMe.

In case you have not the capacity to finance your Learning-ship and you are not willing to finance it via GoFundMe, we recommend you must manage to obtain funds from Erasmus, Campus Mundi or a similar internship programs.

Participating in our different Pathways you can be eligible to get a Compensation Plan composed by:

• Scholarship granting by work.

• Phantom shares distribution.

• Granted freelance contract with financial compensation after having completed in total 1.800 hours dedication by adding all Learning-ship periods.

You can see the details of the proceedit Compensation Plan in this Confluence Page: https://proceedit.atlassian.net/wiki/x/BIAeXQ

Conditions summary

You can find here a summary of the conditions that are applicable to the realization of each Studentship Pathway / Level Programs.

COURSES

PROGRAMS

When you participate in one of our Learning-ship Pathways you can choose to participate in one or more projects belonging to one of the following learn-by-doing Programs and that according to your professional interests and our needs as a company.

Tasks

Depending on your skills and the Program you have chosen you will participate in different Assets development steps: collect information, define requirements, analysis, design, development, configuration, integration, compilation, testing, debugging, documentation, deploying, user training, startup, user support, maintenance, promotion, crowdfunding, selling once the app goes into production and even you will be able to create complementary applications, like databases, functions, AI models, engines, applications, APIs, services, robots and connectors, if you have already or you are willing to develop the required computer programming skills.

Program catalog

The list of available 26 Programs is detailed in the following table:

You can find the complete description and conditions of the different Learning-ship Programs on this Tab career_plan_program_cat > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CcwkwfRNSNDSy4a8a6RNZ12sa54DPYCIW_dMnjPy9KI/edit#gid=162866586&range=1:27

Technologies used

We are working on front end, back end, databases, integration, robotics, AI and analytical aspects to develop and support our applications by using a wide variety of programming languages/technologies like Flutter, Dart, Vue, C#, RESTful, GraphQL, Aqueduct, Python, TensorFlow, PostgreSQL, HTML5, CSS, Material design, , ... and deploying, servicing, supporting and maintaining our applications in our Amazon AWS EC2 and S3 cloud environments, using and integrating with applications and platforms like Google Suite, Jira, Confluence, GitHub, Cognito, Google analytics, Google Ads, Talend, Pentaho, Kibana, Bonita, Animaker, Figma, Canva ...

Programs value proposal

Our Learning-ship Programs are specially oriented to provide our learners with very practical knowledge and experience by:

• Learning and practicing the principles on how to use our methodology and technology by participating in many AI models, standard operating procedures, engines, apps, APIs, robots and BPM processes development projects.

• Using a "learn-by-doing" with a smart combination of proven theory lessons, practices, tests, workshops, projects, demos, presentations and exams activities.

• Participating in the analysis, design, development, configuration, implementation, operation and maintenance of real applications that go immediately on production.

• Participating in continuous rotary role-plays where interns and thesis doers can adopt different company roles and perform real company tasks related to each role. 

• Applying strict rules on effort, performance, ethics and reporting control.

• Ensuring full transparency of progress made by the interns and thesis doers through the use of Jira, an advanced task manager application. 

Outcomes

By participating in our Business Automation Learning-ship Programs you will obtain:

• For techie guys, formation in advanced front-end, back-end, database, integration, robotics, AI, ML, DL and analytical state-of-the-art technologies for real applications going in production.

• For business guys, formation on financing, crowdfunding, marketing, sales, operation and project management.

• For operations gays, participating in the management of real projects.

• For social guys, formation on social media, content design and community management.

• Compatible with the participation as part of the Erasmus or a similar internship exchange program.

• Possibility to develop the final course degree project for your academic institution as part of the internship period.

• Compatible with the realization of your Master or PhD thesis.

• Obtaining real working experience in discovering, analysis, programming, design, development, customization, integration, testing, deployment, servicing, optimization, team leading, project management, user support and maintenance (operative, corrective and evolutive), and in finance, promotion, marketing and sales areas.

• Integration in a very dynamic, young, multinational growing team.

• Flexible part / full time working schedule. 

• Presently and / or remote work.

• If you work in the community or business units, real hands-on experience on marketing and business development of high-level worldwide applicable technological applications.

• And last but not least, you will earn a one-hour scholarship for our training program for every three hours you have worked in our Learning-ship programs.

Additional information

Just inform us of what Learning-ship Program you are interested in or ask us for additional information you will need to make your decision. In that sense, we have a list of current projects that we can provide you on-demand.

ENROLLMENT

If you think, as we do, that this could be a great opportunity for your professional career development, just apply to this call and/or email us to academy@proceedit.com 

Our enrollment procedure has four steps:

1. Application. Filling up the following application questionnaire in order to be able to consider your candidature: https://forms.gle/zmFZxmVefSHuqc649

2. Pre-selection. With the results of the answers to our application form and eventually complemented with a remote interview via Hangout we will decide and communicate if we pre-select you or not.

3. Preparatory tasks. If you are pre-selected, we will create temporarily accounts to access to our systems and we will assign you the realization of a set of introductory tasks served to Jira that will take you an effort of around 18 hours. Those task are necessary to introduce you on our systems and procedures.

4. Agreements. Once you have done with success the three selection steps you will have to sign our Learning-ship acceptance letter and once received duly signed we will prepare and sign the necessary documentation for your company, your university and / or for the Erasmus or other similar internship program (acceptance letter, learning agreement …) when required.

The above process takes not less than two weeks. That's why it is so important that you initiate the application process asap according to your deadlines.

Looking forward to welcoming you soon among our learning community.

Conclusion

As a motivation summary, we can conclude that our Learning-ships Programs have a lot to offer you:

• Learn-by-doing methodology working on real projects.

• Work with us remotely from anywhere / anytime.

• A very broad spread of attractive tasks and assignments managed by Jira / Confluence / GitHub advance environment.

• Excellent support materials and access to systems, platforms, applications and tools to work with.

• Continuous coaching.

• Bright prospects for career development.

• Experimenting a healthy team spirit and flat hierarchies.

• A great multinational - multidisciplinary team that celebrates successes and overcome difficulties together.

FAQs

You can find a full set of FAQs about our Learning-ship Pathways and Programs in this document:

References

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• https://proceedit.atlassian.net/wiki/x/BIAeXQ

• https://forms.gle/zmFZxmVefSHuqc649

• https://proceeditacademy.podia.com/

• https://proceedit.atlassian.net/wiki/x/NACBVg

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