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Crowd-based Content

timebite is a constantly evolving student platform that offers students from all German-speaking universities and colleges the opportunity to find and share learning tips for their courses. The most crucial feature of timebite is that all learning tips and the statistics for the individual classes are entirely user-generated. Likewise, the courses and even the universities are created by the users themselves, meaning that there are no limits to timebite’s growth. Thus, just one student of a particular course of study is enough to provide the impetus for many other users. Since all the content (except the timebite-Lounge content, which we write ourselves) comes from the students themselves, it is directly tied to the students’ learning reality. So real people help real people who are in the exact same study situation. Old learning tips also don’t disappear into long orphaned Facebook groups from years past, so students can also refer back to recommendations from previous semesters, while new tips are constantly added by new students to keep the learning guides up to date. Of course, the platform lives from the active cooperation of the students, which is why free access and a low-threshold participation option are always the focus.

For Students

timebite was developed by students and is entirely focused on the needs of students. Therefore, timebite’s solutions are precisely what our founders and many of their fellow students were missing in their studies. At the heart of timebite are the user-generated courses, which, once created, are continuously updated with new tips. The tips include advice on how, with what, and how long to study, as well as mentioning the learning materials used with the possibility of linking to them and recommending the respective course to others. The data entered is used to generate statistics that offer students added value by allowing them to track their own learning progress and compare it with the average. These statistics are generated automatically and show users how many hours of learning on average should be expected for the respective course.

We constantly add new features to timebite to continuously adapt the platform to students’ needs. The timebite-Lounge provides informative and interesting articles on student life. These cover various topics ranging from helping with administrative issues to combating procrastination, a problem most students know all too well. Again, the premise is that students don’t have to search half the internet until they find answers, but instead find a source for the most critical questions about everyday student life directly on timebite. Of course, timebite thrives on participation, so we always create incentives to share learning experiences and exam tips. This includes many marketing measures and competitions, but also our direct presence at first semester events and university events.

For Business

timebite has the great advantage of being a platform for those young people who are probably most in-demand in the “war for talents”: very well-educated students. Therefore, we have decided to give high-quality employers the opportunity to present themselves on the platform in a highly visible way yet unobtrusive for users. timebite allows companies to create an employer branding profile directly on the platform, which they can customize with information about the company, current events, insights into everyday life at the company, links to job openings, along with photos and videos. Here, too, we pay attention to an excellent user experience by allowing our clients to design their profiles themselves according to their preferences using a drag & drop editor that is a breeze to use.

These employer branding profiles are displayed directly in the profiles of the users matching the companies without affecting the usability for the students. Which company profiles are shown to a specific user is based on the company’s industry and the student’s courses. This means that students in mechanical engineering will mainly see technical employers, while law students will, for example, be suggested law firms. This also creates added value for our users, who can thus obtain information for internship positions or potential employers previously unknown to them. Our users are consequently not a product but equal partners in a mutually beneficial system.

Finally, with the Resources section on our business customer page, we have created a constantly updated collection of information on employer branding at higher education institutions. In it, we show our customers and other employers interested in employer branding possibilities how they can also highlight their employer brand to Millennials and Generation Z inside and outside of timebite. This section also includes our studies and webinars on the topic, in which we shed light on the current state of affairs in employer branding and ask the target group directly what is really important to them.