Reach
The campuses your team can visit in a season
The colleges you choose, in one city or across countries, added term by term
Watch students do your real work for four weeks. Then interview the ones who delivered.
Bring one problem from your business. Students at the colleges you choose work on it, evaluated by mentors and peers. You get the work, a ranked shortlist, and a Skills Track Record on every top performer.
No placement fees. No obligation to hire. Your name is on the challenge; your hiring plans stay private.
Always-On Challenge
Hire When You Need, Not Just Campus Season
Most employers recruit on campus two or three times a year. Your challenge is open every month.
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✓Your Always-On Challenge
How a challenge works
From you: a brief, a kickoff call, and a few checkpoint hours. From us: everything else.
What changes when the challenge replaces the resume
Run it once and you have a shortlist. Keep it open and the colleges you choose promote it to their own students every term, on campuses your recruiters never visit.
Campus recruiting today
With your Always-On Challenge
When
One season a year
All year. Cohorts run every term
The signal
A resume and a thirty-minute interview
A Skills Track Record: four weeks of observed work, rated by mentors and teammates
Who screens
Your recruiters, reading applications
The work does. Candidates earn the interview before you meet them
The pipeline
Rebuilt every year
Your bench: two years of verified performance on students before they graduate
Cost structure
Fairs, travel, and a cost that grows with every campus
One annual program, billed monthly. No per-hire charges, no travel
Programs
Three ways to work with us
Most employers run one challenge first, then keep it running.
Four-Week Challenge Run it once
One cohort, your brief, four weeks. You receive the work, skill data on every participant, and a ranked shortlist with Skills Track Records.
Always-On Challenge Keep it running
Your challenge stays open all year at the colleges you choose. Placement teams promote it on campus, the brief refreshes each term, and you get a Standing Report every month.
Your Bench Know them before you hire
Strong performers who are too early to hire stay on your bench, taking a new challenge each term. By graduation you have two years of verified performance on people you already know.
Skills Track Record
What four weeks of work shows
Five capabilities, observed over four weeks: critical thinking, communication, collaboration, consistency and adaptability, and AI judgment.
A resume can claim them. A one-hour test cannot see them. Four weeks of real work shows them.
Skills Track RecordVerified
Critical thinkingEvidenced in workProblem breakdown and decisions in the delivered solution
CommunicationObservedCheckpoint presentations and written deliverables
CollaborationPeer assessedTeam members who worked alongside the candidate
Consistency and adaptabilityFour weeksAttendance, response to feedback, improvement over time
AI judgmentDisclosed and verifiedHow tools were used, checked, and declared
Earned the interviewReal employer briefMentor and peer evaluation
The Excelerate network behind Future Bench
Powered by Excelerate’s platform and network.
The platform. The learner network. The foundation for Future Bench.
Excelerate is a global platform for experiential learning that equips students with opportunities to develop future-ready skills.
- Learners engaged
- Countries reached
- Program completion
- Learner ratings
Employers & companies
University & network partners
Bring a challenge. Watch real work within a month.
One email starts it. We scope the challenge with you in one call and run everything from there. Your name is on the challenge; your hiring plans stay private.