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    Competence for Business

    Discover Innovation. Assess Talent. All in One Platform

    Partner with us to host hackathons, competitions, and run job-role assessments that help you identify top talent, solve real business problems, and build a high-quality talent pipeline.

    Discover Innovation – Competence for Business

    Every Business Goal Has a
    Product Built for It

    Whether you want fresh ideas and innovations from Africa's best talent or a smarter way to hire, both happen on one platform, enabled by the power of real-work challenges. Both products run on the same “skills challenges infrastructure” and give you access to the same community of digital and business talents, the difference is your goal.

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    Competence Challenges

    Hackathons. Skills Competitions.
    Real-world projects.

    Competence Assessments dashboard
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    Competence Assessments

    Job-role Assessments. Skills Assessments.
    Hiring Challenges.

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    Our Two Products Features & Benefits

    Choose Based on What You Need

    Both can be used at once. Many of our partners run challenges for innovation and Assessments for hiring

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    Competence Assessments

    Innovate with Africa's Talent

    Co-design hackathons or competitions around your real business problem. We run the hackathon, you receive working and innovative solutions.

    • Co-designed hackathon briefs
    • Open skill competitions
    • Industry-specific challenge formats
    • Prize Pool Management
    • Innovation reports & Deliverables

    Hire on proof, not promises

    Replace CV screening with a real-work challenge. Give a candidate a job-role assessment or hiring challenge, receive automated scores and ranked reports.

    • Custom skills assessment per role
    • Project-based hiring challenges
    • Assessments designed by Experts
    • Automated Scoring & Candidate Ranking
    • Per-Candidate Performance Reports
    • Private or open talent pool
    • Role-specific evaluation frameworks

    How It Works

    Both products follow the same simple process, you define the goal, we run the challenge.

    How Competence works

    Use Cases

    Which Products Fits Yours Needs?

    01

    You have a product problem to solve

    Run a hackathon. Get working prototypes from hundreds of builders under a set period of time.

    Competence Challenges
    02

    You're hiring for a technical role

    Screen the candidates with skills-based hiring methods. Run a job-specific challenge and let the best candidates self-select through the real-work challenge performance.

    Competence Assessments
    03

    You want to boost your marketing as a company

    Host a co-branded skills competition to attract the best talents ready to provide creative solutions to the initiative you are launching.

    Competence Challenges
    04

    You want to screen candidates

    Use Competence Assessments to run job-relevant and skills-based assessment to shortlist and screen a large volume of job applicants and candidates.

    Competence Assessments
    05

    You need innovation and a talent pipeline

    Run a public challenges event to engage the community and use Assessments to convert top participants into hires.

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    Competence Assessments
    06

    You partner with Universities or Training Programs

    Use either product to engage students in real-work challenges and industry-case studies or Assessment for graduate recruitment drives.

    Competence Challenges
    Competence Assessments

    Ready to Get Started?

    Stop Guessing. Start Proving.

    Whether you are running a hackathon or filling a role, we will have you live in under a week.

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