This document introduces ExtraAEdge.com, an integrated academic platform established with the mission to empower Indian students and guide them in making career decisions. The platform aims to build an online learning community through discussion forums, sharing of academic resources, and facilitating networking between students, alumni, faculty, colleges and corporations. It proposes tracking students' online and offline performances to generate an "ExtraAEdge score" that can help recruiters understand a student's complete potential. The platform seeks to benefit all stakeholders in the education ecosystem by facilitating communication, industry collaboration, placement activities and sharing of information.

1. Few important questions in a student’s life:
‘What are your career options, which college, why do this and not do
that?’
‘What additional activities have you participated during your
education?’
‘Can you please tell us some of your key strengths?’
‘What are your other interests?’
‘Why should we hire you rather than someone else?’
& so on…..
How well you answer such questions would largely define your career. We
are sure you would agree with us?
We Believe
We believe there is necessity to empower the Indian students answer such
questions confidently and guide them to make right decisions at right time.
ExtraAEdge.com was established with a mission ‘To provide an
integrated academic platform containing key resources, services,
opportunities and networks to students for enriching their academic
avenues’.
We aim combine the power of web, social networking and inherent urge of
individuals to support one another to build a learning community along with
creating smart and useful services for students.
Why ExtraAEdge
Our academic, professional and personal value is always evaluated on the
basis of the experiences we have had and knowledge we have gathered
during the journey.Academic Life is central to every individual’s evolution.
What we do with the Time there pays us a lot of dividends and becomes one
of the best investments of our lives.
An investment which keeps on growing with time...
Who should register with ExtraAEdge.com?

2. How our services would benefits Students?
ExtraAEdge.com will provide numerous benefits for each student during their
entire journey; right from their admissions until they enter the corporate
life. For example:
• Admissions Cut-off application & College-Branch Predictor
• Applications to make the right choice. E.g. Choose or Refer a book.
• Value for Money:Local Classified application to buy/sell stuff within
student community.
• Building Networks:Encouraging online conversation through discussion
forums between student, alumni and faculty.
• Resume Builder Application – build your CV in few clicks
• Encouraging students to participate and organize different college
festivals.
Students Colleges/ Institutions Corporate Alumni
Faculty

3. • Organizing training & industrial visits.
• Get study resources i.e. latest notes, exam papers, results, placement
papers etc.
• Facilitating the search for project sponsorship.
• Facilitating the search for seminars and papers.
• Placement preparation & assistance.
• Fresher job portal application.
• Voice your opinion and share campus news.
We propose to build a metrics that would quantify each online as well as
offline performance of students and give them an ‘ExtraAEdge’ score, which
could be used by recruiters in future as a criteria for understanding the
complete potential of a student.
How our services wouldbenefit Faculty?
The faculty is the bridge between students and the college.Studies show a
teacher plays the most important role in the development and evolution of a
student.
• Reaching larger student audience via forums, expert opinion,
mentoring & counseling.
• Opportunity to share best practices, academic content i.e. lectures,
notes and content on our site.
Faculty

4. • Active participation with industry via our alumni and corporate
networks.
• Online connect with the students to take the classroom experience
virtual and more impactful in today’s times and the dynamic 21st
century learners.
Why should Colleges and Institutes register with us?
The colleges and institutes are the most important part of the educational
ecosystem. We would like to complement the functioning of colleges by
providing numerous benefits:
Facilitate Communication with students. E.g.:
o Send emails/SMS notifications for placements, other events
o Advertise events like tech-fest to other college students
Go Green/ Reduce paper costs. E.g.:
o Digitize projects, seminars, notes, etc. and provide to students
o Publish online magazine instead of paper one
Improve Placement related activities. E.g.
o Create single online database of student CV’s
o Provide access to potential companies to fasten shortlisting
process
Facilitating industry – academic collaboration. E.g.
o Having experts from the industry online to answer queries of
students
o Organizing seminars from industry experts for students
Colleges/ Institutions
Corporate

5. Why should Corporates register with us?
Every corporate would like to have access to best and fresh talent. And we
exactly provide them what they require. By registering with us the
corporates need not just depend on CV’s and interviews for hiring students,
but have access to complete profile of a student with his social graph,
achievements and online behavior to have a holistic view. Some additional
benefits for corporates:
Facilitate Communication with students. E.g.:
o Send emails/SMS notifications recruitment drives
o Answer student queries about the company
Share corporate information. E.g.:
o Pre-placement presentations and videos
Upload featured jobs to attract bright talent
Have access to thousands of fresher profiles with ability to filter on
different criteria
Alumni

6. Why should the alumni be left out?
Active and passionate alumni can make a huge positive difference to their
alma mater. By registering with us, the alumni can get an opportunity to:
Guide and help the current students
Meet and communicate with likeminded batch mates and teachers
Find good talent for their respective organizations from their colleges
Share as well gain knowledge with other members of community
How can you help us?
We are embarking a long journey and seeking support to pursue our goal of
helping students. We need your assistance for the following:
Register on the website and complete your profile
Participate actively & share your views, information, etc.on our
discussion forums.
Upload your academic content (e.g. journals, exam papers, notes) on
the website to share with fellow students
Contribute &Provide assistance and different services (e.g. expert
advice) to students
Use our services and provide feedback on improvement on our service
offering
Share it with your friends and fellow colleagues if you found
ExtraAEdge.com useful
We believe our mission has the power to transform the life of a student
towards excellence and higher learning; giving them ‘ExtraA Edge’ – in
today’s competitive timesand knowledge based economies.
ExtraAEdge Team