SkilledUp Life - 64,000 Skilled Volunteers Building Tech Startups
EDUCATION PROVIDERS

From Skill to Work

Give your students and trainees real-world experience and demonstrable skills to improve career prospects. Partner with us to bridge the gap between training and employability.

The Problem We Solve Together

For Education Providers

Education and training providers are producing skilled graduates. But the market does not reward skill alone.

Most learners complete programmes with certificates but without proof of real-world contribution. Employers increasingly screen for applied experience, collaboration ability, and delivery under real constraints.

For Startups

At the same time, early-stage startups need hands-on contributors but lack the budget or risk tolerance for traditional hiring.

This gap is structural, not temporary.

Why This Partnership Should Exist

This partnership formalizes SkilledUp Life as an after-training execution partner.

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Your Organization

Focuses on skill acquisition through training and education programs

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SkilledUp Life

Focuses on skill application through real startup work experience

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Together

We create a continuous pipeline from learning to real work

What Your Organization Gains

  • A differentiated value proposition beyond certificates
  • Higher placement and outcome credibility
  • Stronger learner conversion and retention
  • Tangible post-training success stories
  • A scalable, global execution layer without building one internally

Your programme does not end at graduation. It extends into real-world contribution.

What Your Learners Gain

  • Access to real startup opportunities across product, engineering, marketing, growth, operations, and data
  • Hands-on contribution to live projects, not simulations
  • Referenceable work experience they can confidently present to employers
  • Exposure to distributed teams, startup pace, and real delivery expectations
  • Portfolio-building outcomes tied to actual company outputs

This addresses the single biggest post-training bottleneck: employability credibility.

What SkilledUp Life Gains

  • Access to trained, skill-specific talent pools
  • Better alignment between training curricula and startup needs
  • Improved matching quality between opportunities and contributors
  • A sustainable inflow of execution-ready professionals

This improves platform outcomes for startups and volunteers alike.

How The Partnership Works

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Talent Referral

Your organization refers trained graduates or cohorts to SkilledUp Life via a co-branded onboarding pathway or agreed referral process.

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Opportunity Matching

Learners apply to real startup opportunities aligned with their training focus. Startups independently vet and engage candidates.

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Volunteer Term Onboarding & Execution

Your trainees (now volunteers) collaborate directly with startups on real deliverables. Work is tracked, referenceable, and outcomes-based.

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Feedback and Outcomes

Where appropriate, feedback loops and success stories are shared with the education partner.

Governance and Autonomy

Education Partners

Retain full control over curriculum and certification

SkilledUp Life

Retains control over platform governance and opportunity management

Startups

Retain autonomy over who they work with and how

Important: No employment guarantees are implied. This is a work-experience bridge, not a placement agency.

Co-Branding and Visibility

Co-branded learner onboarding

Joint outcome storytelling

Case studies highlighting learner impact

Shared thought leadership on skills-to-work transitions

All co-branding is optional and mutually agreed.

Why This Model Works

Hiring is expensive.

Training without execution is incomplete.

This partnership does not promise jobs.

It delivers proof of capability.

That distinction matters in today's labour market.

Next Steps

We propose a short alignment discussion to confirm partner fit, define referral mechanics, and agree on pilot cohorts or rollout structure.

Godwin Mayaki

Partnerships | SkilledUp Life