Clear a Fortune-100 Privacy Review for an HR-Tech Vendor
Overview
What this challenge is about.
Build a GDPR and EU AI Act compliance matrix for an HR-Tech screening tool, identify gaps, and earn a verifiable certificate.
The scenario
Helix Talent is a business-to-business vendor whose software ranks and shortlists job applicants for large EU employers, which places it squarely in the high-risk category the EU Artificial Intelligence Act defines for employment-related systems. Enterprise buyers increasingly gate purchases on this kind of combined privacy and AI-governance review, so passing one is now a sales prerequisite, not a back-office formality.
The Brief
What you'll do, and what you'll demonstrate.
Helix Talent must prove, in eight weeks and with evidence, that its candidate-screening product satisfies EU privacy law and the AI Act so a stalled Fortune-100 deal can close.
Earning criteria — what you'll demonstrate
- Map specific GDPR articles and AI Act high-risk obligations onto concrete product surfaces and data flows
- Distinguish a genuine compliance gap tied to a feature from a generic policy weakness
- Translate regulatory gaps into a sequenced, capacity-aware remediation plan with explicit dependencies
- Produce a defensible Data Protection Impact Assessment and human-oversight design for an automated decision system
- Communicate compliance findings to a skeptical enterprise buyer concisely and without overclaiming
Program Fit
Where this fits in your program.
Sharpens the same skills your degree expects you to demonstrate.
Aligned coursework coming soon.
Skills
Skills you'll demonstrate.
Each one shows up on your verified credential.
- Compliance
Apply compliance to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Privacy Regulation
Apply privacy regulation to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Gdpr
Apply gdpr to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Eu Ai Act
Apply eu ai act to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
- Risk Management
Identify, assess, and mitigate risks across business operations and projects.
- Stakeholder Communication
Apply stakeholder communication to solve real industry problems and demonstrate production-level capability.
Careers
Career paths this challenge builds toward
Completing this challenge demonstrates skills that transfer directly to these roles:
AI Governance Specialist
This challenge mirrors the core of the role: assessing a high-risk machine-learning product against the AI Act, documenting human oversight, and defending the result to external reviewers — the exact work of governing AI systems in regulated markets.
This challenge sharpens
- eu-ai-act
- compliance
- risk-management
Privacy / Compliance Engineer
You translate GDPR articles into concrete product requirements, run an impact assessment, and design privacy-by-default safeguards — the day-to-day of embedding privacy law into engineering practice for a software vendor.
This challenge sharpens
- gdpr
- privacy-regulation
- compliance
Data Protection Officer (track)
Answering an enterprise buyer's 14 concerns and producing defensible artifacts builds the advisory and communication muscle a Data Protection Officer needs to represent an organization to customers and regulators.
This challenge sharpens
- privacy-regulation
- stakeholder-communication
- risk-management