This London-based talent-tech platform utilizes machine learning to identify specific skills needs of employers and generates custom URLs for recruitment channels to attract suitable candidates. By leveraging a proprietary skills taxonomy and real-time data loops, the platform delivers skills-aligned job applications weekly, significantly enhancing hiring efficiency and providing measurable ROI across recruitment efforts.
Funding
$400K raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Product
Problem
Traditional hiring processes often rely on qualifications and experience, overlooking candidates with the right skills but lacking conventional backgrounds. This leads to missed opportunities for both employers and job seekers, resulting in talent waste and reduced diversity. Existing HR tech struggles to address the root cause, merely digitizing outdated practices.
Solution
Clu provides an AI-powered skills intelligence platform that enables organizations to adopt skills-based hiring practices, improving talent acquisition and internal mobility. The platform helps companies identify the specific skills needed for success, pre-qualify candidates based on skill relevance, and build skills-aligned talent pools. By focusing on skills rather than traditional qualifications, Clu expands the talent pool, reduces bias, and enhances the candidate experience. The platform also supports internal skills mapping and targeted learning and development, aligning L&D with organizational strategy.
Target Audience
Clu targets HR and talent acquisition teams looking to improve hiring outcomes, reduce costs, and increase diversity through skills-based hiring, as well as organizations seeking to optimize internal mobility and learning and development programs.
Features
- Skills Extractor: Analyzes data to create role-specific skills profiles, including technical, behavioral, and digital skills.
- Skills-based job ads: Creates job postings that emphasize required skills rather than specific qualifications.
- Interview packs: Provides structured interview guides to assess candidates against a consistent skills matrix.
- Talent pools: Automatically builds dynamic talent pools of pre-qualified, skills-aligned candidates.
- TalentGPS™: An ethical AI designed to unlock the value of skills for workforce decisions.
- Skills Inventory: Maps internal skills across teams, roles, and regions to identify skills gaps and surpluses.
- Skills Development: Aligns learning and development initiatives with organizational strategy to address identified skills gaps.
- Skills Agility: Facilitates organizational design and change by identifying and mapping skills needed for future roles.