Arete analyzes a student’s CV and target role to surface relevant strengths, gaps, and reasoning patterns, then guides them through personalized projects that generate a shareable proof profile. The profile highlights how the candidate thinks and applies skills, giving employers insight beyond traditional bullet‑point resumes. The platform is already used by students at leading UK universities.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Employers struggle to assess a candidate’s actual problem‑solving ability, reasoning style, and role readiness because traditional CVs only list grades, titles, and activities, which do not reveal how candidates frame problems, weigh trade‑offs, or respond to feedback.
Solution
Arete converts a conventional CV into a shareable “proof profile” that captures and displays a candidate’s thinking process, reasoning strengths, and working style. The platform first reads the user’s background and target role, then highlights existing credible attributes and identifies specific capability gaps. It recommends personalized projects that align with the desired role, records the decision‑making behind each task, and links the resulting evidence to the candidate’s profile. Employers can view this role‑specific proof before interviews, allowing them to evaluate capability directly rather than inferring it from static bullet points. The system is offered to students across UK universities, with optional hackathon challenges and a subscription model for ongoing access to curated projects and credentialing.
Target Audience
Primary users are university students and recent graduates in the UK who are seeking to demonstrate their problem‑solving capabilities to prospective employers, as well as recruiters looking for evidence‑based assessments of candidate readiness.
Features
- Automated onboarding that parses the user’s CV, experience, and target role to generate a customized capability map
- Gap analysis that pinpoints the exact skills or reasoning evidence needed for the chosen role
- Guided, role‑specific project creation that captures the candidate’s problem‑framing, trade‑off decisions, and feedback response
- Shareable proof profile that visualizes reasoning strengths, working style, and concrete project outcomes in a single page
- Integration of hackathon and real‑company challenges for candidates to test and validate their proof in competitive settings
- Membership portal with monthly access to new project templates, judged challenges, and credential badges