Skillful.ly

Our Mission: We believe is a deeply broken system connecting higher education with employment. We consider our social mission of building a more equitable employment alternative to be just as important as our financial goals to build a successful, scalable business. We value mission alignment in new team members and enthusiastically seek out those who are passionate about our work.

Our Platform: Our platform is an interface between users, partners, and employer customers. Building a strong, brilliant, and ethical engineering foundation is an early requirement we prioritize highly. Intelligent adaptive learning solutions, neurocognitive assessment technology, and machine learning applications all play a critical role in revealing the unique cognitive abilities, behavioral attributes, and intrinsic potential of our users and how we match them with employers.

Our Business: We are an online employment marketplace that shifts focus away from outdated paper credentials towards a more flexible, fair, and representative unit of qualification: validated skill proficiency. We assess a user’s proficiency across a wide range of job skills and use that data to guide their future development and match them to jobs they’re qualified for. For job seekers, our platform provides a forum to develop and demonstrate their professional skill set. Users build their profiles by completing virtual simulations of real workplace challenges, which are sourced directly from our employer customers. Users experience what it means to work in various career paths and get the chance to be recognized for their real professional potential, not just the pedigree of their background. For employers, our tools enable recruiters to engage a far broader pool of highly-skilled, pre-qualified candidates than traditional tools allow. Employers come to us to follow a more equitable and efficient form of recruitment, and to meet candidates who would have likely gone unrecognized through other hiring channels.