{"id":10000856,"date":"2019-02-07T10:42:22","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T08:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fh-joanneum.at\/management-internationaler-geschaeftsprozesse\/bachelor\/?page_id=856"},"modified":"2019-02-07T10:42:22","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T08:42:22","slug":"christoph-trost","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fh-joanneum.at\/management-internationaler-geschaeftsprozesse\/bachelor\/en\/after-graduation\/graduates\/christoph-trost\/","title":{"rendered":"Christoph Trost"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Key data<\/h4>\n

Job description:<\/strong> CEO & Co-founder
\nCompany:<\/strong> UNIspotter
\nI work in:<\/strong> Vienna\/London
\nI’ve worked here since:<\/strong> 2014 (Company founded 2016)
\nMy contact<\/a> <\/p>\n

What I do<\/h4>\n

Connecting the right students with the right universities. Universities spend €3.4b on agent commissions (doubling by 2024). UNIspotter is transforming a broken industry and ending the education agent marketplace by digitising 80% of the agent process and adding super high level human touch where necessary. UNIspotter is a mobile app for students for the international university application – adding ease, accessibility and transparency. <\/p>\n

Why I love my job<\/h4>\n
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  • Working on a problem I had myself <\/li>\n
  • Helping young people to set them up for a better life <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Important skills in my job<\/h4>\n
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    • Sales\/Marketing <\/li>\n
    • Product Development <\/li>\n
    • Leadership <\/li>\n
    • Building a performing team (hiring, company culture, team management…) <\/li>\n
    • Fundraising \/ Investor relations <\/li>\n
    • Strategic planning <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      The best experiences in my job<\/h4>\n

      Getting positive feedback from students using UNIspotter is everytime a great experience. I also love to create a team around our mission and a positive and challenging work environment. In 2017 I was very honored to be on the Forbes 30 under 30 list (as it’s one of my favorite business magazines). All together we were able to raise €1 million from international angel investors & venture capitalists. We now have 5 offices across the globe in Vienna, Tallinn, London, Sydney and Coimbatore (India). All those successes were only possible through a great team effort. <\/p>\n

      How I found my current job<\/h4>\n

      Created it 😉<\/p>\n

      What I learned for this job during my studies at FH JOANNEUM:<\/h4>\n
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      • Fundamental understanding of different business aspects (coming from a technical school \/ HTL before) <\/li>\n
      • Cultural understanding and awareness (probably the biggest one with currently a team of 7 people from 5 very different cultures) <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

        Job prospects in my field<\/h4>\n

        I think entrepreneurship is not the right career choice for everyone but I want to encourage everyone who is interested to take the step to at least try it out!<\/p>\n

        I am<\/h4>\n
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        • Strategic thinker <\/li>\n
        • Efficient <\/li>\n
        • Resilient <\/li>\n
        • Positive thinker <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

          About my job<\/h4>\n

          As the CEO my main roles right now involve strategic planning, hiring & company culture, investor relations and sales. Still I’m involved in product, marketing & other areas and as we are small team I’m still spending 70% of my time executing things. <\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          CEO & Co-founder of UNIspotter
          \nTransforming higher education student recruitment
          \nEducation & Edtech
          \nForbes 30 under 30 (2017)
          \nEmerge Education Alumni<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":10000895,"parent":10000303,"menu_order":105,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-absolvent.blade.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fh-joanneum.at\/management-internationaler-geschaeftsprozesse\/bachelor\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10000856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fh-joanneum.at\/management-internationaler-geschaeftsprozesse\/bachelor\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fh-joanneum.at\/management-internationaler-geschaeftsprozesse\/bachelor\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fh-joanneum.at\/management-internationaler-geschaeftsprozesse\/bachelor\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fh-joanneum.at\/management-internationaler-geschaeftsprozesse\/bachelor\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10000856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fh-joanneum.at\/management-internationaler-geschaeftsprozesse\/bachelor\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10000856\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fh-joanneum.at\/management-internationaler-geschaeftsprozesse\/bachelor\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10000303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fh-joanneum.at\/management-internationaler-geschaeftsprozesse\/bachelor\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10000895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fh-joanneum.at\/management-internationaler-geschaeftsprozesse\/bachelor\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10000856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}