Pipeline shape
From scoping to shortlist.
Scoping47
Solving31
Submitted18
Shortlist6
For industry partners
Sponsor a challenge. Hire the students who shipped.
Put your team's real problem shapes in front of students. They scope, ship, and earn blockchain-anchored credentials. You read the work firsthand and recruit the ones whose solutions stood out — no agency, no CV-trawling, no guesswork.
Why sponsor on Ewance
Three reasons recruiting teams pick this over a traditional pipeline.
Briefs that mirror your real work
Your team brings the problem; we help scope a brief that mirrors your actual hiring shape. Students work on the project they'd do in week one of the job — not a coding test, not a case study, not a homework assignment.
Verified candidates, not self-reports
Every submission is anchored on a public blockchain via LearnCoin. Verify any candidate's credential client-side in your browser — no Ewance API call, no trust required. The proof follows them to LinkedIn.
Direct line to your standouts
Solvers of your sponsored brief surface higher in your search. You read the actual submission before the first message — no agency screen, no CV bottleneck. From discovery to interview in days, not months.
How sponsorship works
From brief to first hire in weeks, not quarters.
- 1
Scope your brief
Tell us what you're hiring for or the problem you want solved. We co-author a 1–2 page brief that mirrors the constraints, deliverable, and rubric of the real role.
- 2
Students solve it
Your brief joins the catalogue, flagged as sponsored. Students scope, pitch, collaborate, and submit — typically 2–4 weeks per challenge, longer for capstone-shaped work.
- 3
You read the work
Every submission is rubric-scored and tied to a public verifiable credential. You see exactly what each candidate produced and how they reasoned through it — before any conversation starts.
- 4
Recruit the standouts
Message candidates directly through your recruiter workspace. Credentials follow them to LinkedIn — no re-verification needed when you forward profiles to a hiring panel.
Your recruiter cockpit
Real-time visibility into your sourcing pipeline.
What you'll see in your Ewance workspace after you sponsor your first challenge — every panel below updates as students ship.
Solution quality
Distribution of rubric scores per challenge.
76
median rubric
Top quartile clears 88 — that's the threshold most recruiters anchor on for outreach.
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- Top quartile (≥88)19%
- Median band (60–87)62%
- Below pass (<60)19%
Challenges in flight
Across business, engineering, design, data.
Offers extended
Of top-quartile submissions, on average.
of top-quartile submissions receive an outreach or interview slot within 14 days.
Top universities
Where shipped work is coming from.
- 1Challenge University12%
- 2Tsinghua University8%
- 3ETH Zürich7%
- 4TU München6%
- 5FHNW5%
- 6Politecnico Milano4%
- Europe45%
- Asia28%
- Americas18%
- Africa & Oceania9%
Student reach
Across 53 countries, 6,700+ universities.
12,400+
Students who've engaged with at least one brief.
ESDECHITBRINMXUS+45
The credential
One link. Five cryptographic checks. Zero trust required.
Every accepted submission generates a public verifier page. Recruiters confirm authenticity in their browser — schema, signature, issuer, on-chain anchor, revocation — without calling our API. The cert follows the candidate to LinkedIn and beyond.
Ready to put your brief in front of students?
The first conversation is fifteen minutes. We'll work out the brief shape, the rubric, and the tier that matches your hiring volume. No procurement contract, no multi-year partnership.