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Skilllab
Career exploration platform
- 21-100 employees
- B2B
- Artificial Intelligence
- Education
- Recruitment
- SaaS
- Social Impact
- Oude Pijp, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Company mission
To empower people to turn their skills into careers.
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Our take
Founded with a focus on the integration of refugees into European labour markets, SkillLab is now a technology company assisting all job seekers that are in need of career support.
Using artificial intelligence, SkillLab helps people discover their skills and connects them to relevant careers and education. Founded in Amsterdam, the company operates in over fifteen countries and has grown its market position after its innovative use of AI was recognised with the Google AI Impact Award.
Despite expanding its services to cater to all job seekers, it hasn’t forgotten its original focus on work with social impact, recently partnering with Humans in the Loop to improve the employment and education prospects of forcibly displaced people in seven different countries.
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Benefits
- Join our bi-annual offsite events for the whole company
- Easily access your learning budget to invest in your personal development
- Contribute to various digital or physical company-wide events through the year
- Access to mentors & coaches (SkillLab is part of the Google for Startups SDG accelerator)
- Learn from your colleagues during company-wide lunch learning exchanges
- Receive feedback from your peers and team lead at least twice per year
- Work flexibly from our office in Amsterdam, or remotely with intermittent trips to Amsterdam
- Get relocation support, incl. visa, 30% ruling application, to move to Amsterdam
- Get work equipment and commuting support if you don’t live in Amsterdam
- Work in a team with people from 12 countries, using English as their shared language
- Enjoy 25 paid vacation days per year, and additional leave (e.g. parental leave)
- Regularly interact with our users and see our impact on their lives
Company values
- Purpose-driven - We impact people’s lives by creating pathways to employment
- Collaboration - We collaborate with our colleagues and partners to connect people, jobs and education
- Learning mindset - We learn from each other and with every user to help people to turn skills into careersJoin our bi-annual offsite events for the whole company
Funding (1 round)
Jan 2021
$1.6m
SEED
Total funding: $1.6m
Leadership
Ulrich Scharf
(Managing Director)Previously co-founded rootAbility and Maastricht University Green Office, serving there as Sustainability Project Coordinator. Experience as Director of IT and Analytics for GRESB and as a Bank Clerk for Commerzbank AG.