Intercomp

Intercomp trains students via courses, tests, and mock interviews, then matches top-scoring candidates directly to company job requirements replacing unverified resumes with proven skill data.

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Skill-Bridge: Connecting Ready Talent with Hiring Companies Inspiration A few months ago, my friend and I were looking for internships. We applied to every opening we could find sending out over 20 applications but weeks went by without a single response. Frustrated with waiting, we printed our resumes and walked door-to-door visiting local software houses in person. The experience was an eye-opener:

At one top-rated company, we found out the office was inside a home that only hired male candidates. At 5 or 6 other offices, recruiters politely took our printed resumes, but we never heard back.

That was the moment I realized the hiring process is broken on both sides. Students waste weeks applying blindly without knowing if their skills match market standards. At the same time, companies get flooded with resumes they don't have time to verify, so they ignore most applicants or rely on word-of-mouth.

I decided to build a platform that fixes this problem at the root: train students to be genuinely job-ready, verify their skills through real assessments, and let companies hire directly based on proven talent.

The Problem For Students: Academic degrees teach theory, but companies want practical skills. Students struggle to land internships because they lack real-world project experience, interview practice, and direct access to recruiters.

For Companies: Sorting through hundreds of unverified resumes takes too much time and effort. Most resumes look identical on paper, making it nearly impossible for employers to spot truly qualified candidates without conducting endless interviews. What It Does (The Solution) Our platform bridges the gap between learning and getting hired through a two-sided system:

  1. Student Portal (Train & Verify) Market-Focused Courses & Assignments: Students learn practical, job-oriented skills through hands-on practice.

Skill Assessment Tests: Standardized quizzes and coding tasks test real technical ability.

AI Mock Interviews: Students practice live technical and behavioral interviews, receiving instant, detailed feedback on their answers and communication skills.

Verified Skill Score: As students finish assignments, tests, and mock interviews, the platform builds a verified performance score for their profile.

  1. Company Portal (Filter & Hire) Requirement-Based Job Posts: Employers post job or internship openings and set their exact skill requirements and minimum test score cutoffs.

Automated Candidate Leaderboard: The platform automatically filters and ranks students who match the job criteria based on their real test scores and mock interview performance.

Direct Interview Invitations: Employers can inspect student performance data and invite top-ranked candidates directly for final interviews with a single click—no manual resume reading required.

How We Built It Frontend: Next.js, React, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS for a fast, modern UI with clear dashboards for students and recruiters.

Backend: Node.js with Supabase for user data, test scores, and job posting management.

Performance Tracking: Custom logic that calculates live skill match percentages between student assessment scores and company job criteria.

What's Next for Skill-Bridge Adding live coding sandboxes for real-time code evaluation during tests.

Partnering directly with local universities and tech hubs to onboard more students.

Building automated feedback reports to give rejected students clear tips on what skills they need to improve.

Built With

  • ai
  • career-platform
  • edtech
  • education
  • full-stack
  • job-matching
  • next.js
  • node.js
  • react
  • student-developer
  • supabase
  • tailwind-css
  • typescript
  • web-app
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