SME & partner network

Taught by people who
still do the work.

Every domain track is specified and reviewed by practising subject matter experts — engineers who hire, brief and sign off work in that discipline this week, not a decade ago.

Where this sits

  1. Screen
  2. Gap
  3. Develop
  4. Certify
  5. Place
Subject matter expert delivering a session to a seated group

How we choose them

The bar is deliberately narrow, because a mentor who left industry five years ago teaches the industry of five years ago.

  1. 01

    Currently practising

    Active in the sector now, in a role that involves specifying, reviewing or hiring.

  2. 02

    Ten years or more

    Enough time in the field to have seen more than one way of doing it go wrong.

  3. 03

    Has hired at this level

    Has sat on the other side of the table for the exact roles our candidates are targeting.

  4. 04

    Reviewed content, not just delivered it

    Every module in a track is signed off by the SME who owns it, and reviewed when the industry moves.

Profiles are being published as each SME signs off.

Our mentors are named individuals with reputations of their own, so their profiles go up with their agreement rather than ahead of it. Ask us which experts cover your discipline and we will tell you.

Ask about your discipline

What a mentor does

Four jobs,
none of them cheerleading.

  1. 01

    Reviews your work

    Assessment answers, case studies and documentation, marked the way it would be marked at work rather than at university.

  2. 02

    Runs the mock interview

    Technical questions from their own hiring, with feedback that names the specific answer that lost you the room.

  3. 03

    Adjusts your path

    Where the generated learning path misses something the sector actually wants, the mentor overrides it — on the record, with a reason.

  4. 04

    Tells you when you are ready

    And when you are not. A mentor who signs everyone off is worth nothing to the candidate or the employer.

Become a mentor

Practising engineer?
We are always short.

If you hire in one of our sectors and want to shape what the next intake learns, register and tell us which discipline.