LEO-NET USER GUIDE FOR COMPANIES

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1 LEO-NET USER GUIDE FOR COMPANIES

2 Table of Contents INTRODUCTION - THE LEO-NET NETWORK LEO-NET GOALS ADVANTAGES OF COLLABORATING WITH LEO-NET Advantages of European Placement Mobility Advantages of JOEplus Further Advantages JOB OFFER EXCHANGE LEO-NET S JOB PORTAL: JOEPLUS How to Use the Platform How to Post an Offer Further Characteristics and Terms CONTACTS

3 Introduction - The LEO-Net Network Welcome to LEO-Net! LEO-Net stands for Leveraging Education into Organizations and is a network of more than 150 dynamic partners from universities, colleges and intermediate organizations in 32 European countries and beyond, all of them involved in academic placement mobility within the European Lifelong Learning Program. LEO-Net was founded in 1999 at the annual conference of the European Association for International Education (EAIE) in Maastricht, The Netherlands. In February 2000, during the Training 2000 Conference in Brussels LEO-Net was inaugurated with 66 founding members. At the EAIE conference in Leipzig, Germany, LEO-Net was officially launched by its members. The aim of the network is to stimulate the internationalization of higher education and in particular to facilitate high standard work placements in Europe. LEO-Net has thus established a platform to discuss common opportunities and challenges as well as to develop strategies to improve the European Placement Programmes and the cooperation between partners. LEO-Net s growing number of members proves that in order to guarantee a high level of quality in student and graduate placements within Europe, it is of utmost importance that partners have means to communicate and interact such as our platform

4 LEO-Net Goals 1. Higher Education: The network provides its members with the possibility to gain knowhow on various topics regarding higher education in Europe and to find new partners for mobility and related projects. Workshops and training courses are regularly organized in order to disseminate achieved results and share experiences as well as tips for project management and professional development. 2. European Work Placements: LEO-Net stimulates the internationalization of higher education and facilitates high standard work placements in Europe by means of Job Offer Exchange. 3. JOEplus - Job Offer Exchange Portal: LEO-Net offers a portal where members have the possibility to post and to find work placements all over Europe. JOEplus is also a means to strengthen ties between the working and the academic world, promoting close links between academic institutions and companies

5 Advantages of Collaborating with LEO-Net One of the main purposes of the Lifelong Learning Program is to further stimulate the exchange between European educational institutions and to support collaborations between the working and the academic world. Although companies play an important role and are considered as full partners, they are unfortunately hardly informed about the Program s possibilities. LEO-Net has always striven to involve companies/the industry in the Program and offers many advantages with regard to managing international work placements such as the possibility to contact more than 150 universities and other academic institutions in Europe and to access our European Job Portal JOEplus. Please find more information below. Advantages of European Placement Mobility Offering work placements to international students and graduates has many benefits. You will profit from state-of-the-art knowledge taught at the universities in Europe. The input of the trainees, such as new methods and work methods, will contribute to the internationalization of your company and improve your capability to compete in today s globalised world. Trainees may also make a valuable contribution to acquiring new markets in their home country. Furthermore, a traineeship can serve as a long trial period and is thus a good way of recruiting an international staff. Also, trainees who are hosted in the framework of the Erasmus (students) or Leonardo (university graduates) Program may apply for a grant with their university. While this grant should not fully replace a salary, it is a means to lighten the burden of especially smaller - 5 -

6 companies and is a way to acknowledge the important part companies may play in preparing young people for the employment market. Advantages of JOEplus Using JOEplus is an easy way to find suitable candidates for a traineeship. 1. By posting an offer on JOEplus, you have the possibility to make your offer known to academic institutions and their students and graduates all over Europe. 2. Finding suitable candidates for a work placement is a time-consuming task. Using the JOEplus portal simplifies the recruiting process without any extra costs. Partner universities in your region which are members of LEO-Net may publish the offers for you and preselect suitable candidates. 3. Stellen-Ticket System To guarantee that only high quality offers are posted, LEO-Net introduced the ticket system. Tickets are needed to upload an offer and can only be ordered by members of the network. However, members are free to pass on tickets to the companies with which they cooperate. If you do not yet have a partner in your region, please contact our secretariat. 4. Free of Charge Thanks to LEO-Net, the use of the portal is free of charge for host companies, members and candidates. Please note that 30% of all interns extend their internships into permanent positions when needed. For more information on the JOEplus, see chapter Job Offer Exchange LEO-Net s Job Portal JOEplus

7 Further Advantages As an alternative to JOEplus, you may also use JOE 2.0, a job portal with internship offers from all over the world. You may test the portal during ten days by signing up for a free membership and have then the possibility to register for a premium membership. While the premium membership is not free of charge, it offers many benefits such as a matching service with candidates profiles and direct access to all profiles. As a premium member you can upload your full company profile: organisational description, job description, preferences, company logo. Your company profile will be shown in the search results of our database. Students can contact you and you can search for, find and recruit students. After Trial: You can prolong your Premium Membership at a rate from 340,00 per year. When you discontinue your Premium Membership, your membership will automatically be prolonged as a Non Premium Membership. You will not benefit from the Premium Membership facilities. Only a basic profile will be shown and you can't accept or contact the students. As a premium member you will receive the following benefits: Full access to all students contact details, such as address and phone number; Your contact details will be showed to all students; Matching service, to match your placement to all relevant students; Get top ranked on our internship search results. LEO-Net also helps to simplify the administration process of Erasmus and Leonardo traineeships by offering a series of model documents such as contracts and monitoring forms and so on. Furthermore, the network regularly organizes trainings and workshops on mobility issues in order to disseminate achieved results, share experiences and tips for project management and professional development

8 Job Offer Exchange LEO-Net s Job Portal: JOEplus The JOEplus portal has been developed by Stellenticket, a spin-off company from Technische Universität Berlin (TUB) that has a long experience in the field of university related online job offer exchange portals. With JOEplus LEO-Net provides a modern online job offer exchange platform. The portal is based on the idea that it is much easier for members to acquire placements in their own region or country than abroad, since they speak the same language and share the same cultural background as potential employers. In exchange of posting offers from their region or country, members may use the portal to find placements abroad for their students and graduates. In order to simplify its use, JOEplus is now fully trilingual (English, French and German) and also allows companies direct access to the portal (see chapter How to Use JOEplus). Keywords: LIIFELONG LEARNIING PLACEMENT QUALIITY EUROPEAN DIIMENSSIION MANAGEMENT QUALIITY TECHNOLOGY TRANSSFER aanndd IINNOVATIION - 8 -

9 How to Use the Platform You do not need to login in order to use platform. The offer list can be viewed here: Job offer No. Offers are organized according to: Scope for the field of interest Type for the kind of placement offered - 9 -

10 The traineeship candidates and members have the possibility to search the offer lists for specific employers or for offers from specific countries and cities: Search Options To view the offer and contact details, candidates and members may click on the number of the offers which interests them. Companies can either indicate their direct contact or list those of a partner university which will preselect candidates for them:

11 How to Post an Offer Posting a new offer is very simple. You first need a ticket which is free of charge and can be ordered by writing an to the contact person in your partner university (if you do not have a partner university, please contact our secretariat: info@leo-net.org). Once you receive the ticket, go to login with your account and password and click on the button proceed as shown below: Offer posting is possible 24 hours, 7 days a week. The portal will lead you through the process step by step: 1. Enter your contact details; 2. Include the offer details as well as the offer text; 3. View your offer before publishing it; 4. Publish your offer by using a valid ticket; 5. Administer your offer by editing, cancelling or changing contact details

12 A complete overview of your account is available when you click on the button My account as shown below. Here you can easily change your offers and settings. Menu 03 Editorial Office is the place for creating, editing and publishing your offers. In Menu 04 Administration all your currently active and expired offers are listed. Here you have the option to republish or to deactivate an offer after clicking on the respective offer. Also you can edit the master data of your account and view the tickets which you have left

13 Further Characteristics and Terms A ticket is valid for a year. The running time of an offer is 90 days, after that the offer will be set into an offline status. With a new ticket you have the possibility to activate the offer again for another 90 days. It is also possible to determine an automatic launching date in the future or to deactivate an offer manually before the scheduled time. ** Tip: Having trouble to view JOEplus? Please note that to display the platform and to fully benefit from its features, you need a current version of a modern browser such as Firefox (3.6x), Safari (4.0x / 5.0x), Google Chrome, Opera X or Internet Explorer 8. If you are visiting JOEplus with an outdated version, you will see a yellow warning banner.**

14 Contacts We hope that with this manual we have given you all information necessary to profit from your LEO-Net membership. Please let us know if you would like to find some additional information in the manual or if you have suggestions for other useful services which LEO-Net should provide. As you will see in the contact list below, each board member has specific areas of expertise. Please feel free to contact board members, to profit from their know-how and experience. LEO-NET Secretariat LEO-NET Secretariat c/o Eindhoven University of Technology, Regional Leonardo Bureau (TU/e) P.O. box 513 / Traverse 0.05, NL-5600 MB Eindhoven Tel: Fax: Mobile: info@leo-net.org Board Members Marjo van der Valk Bruno Woeran Executive Board Eindhoven University of Technology IST Vienna, Austria Regional Leonardo Bureau (TU/e) m.v.d.valk@tue.nl bwoeran@ist.ac.at Area of expertise: Area of expertise: 17 years of experience with LifeLong-Learning 15 years of experience with European Higher Programmes in Education and Training, Company Education Vocational Lifelong-Learning Relations and Career Development Programmes, Innovation and Technology Transfer

15 Alexandra Angress Sara Bervoets University of Applied Sciences Aschaffenburg, Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium Germany sara.bervoets@ua.ac.be Area of expertise: Area of Expertise: Expert on LLP Policy Development, former member Longstanding career in Vocational Training, of DAAD NA team Placement Management and LLP Henriette Graf StudEx, Biel, Switzerland graf@studex.ch Area of expertise: Long-standing experience in collaborating with companies and organizing mobility projects Co-opt board member Line Pillet SOL, Sion, Switzerland line.pillet@s-o-l.ch Area of expertise: 12 years of experience in international education programmes, education events, and international partnership. Referenceable track record in helping companies, universities, VET schools and other educational institutions to achieve successful programme and project delivery