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NEXUSGRAD
For Employers and Companies

Discover Student, Graduate, and TVET
Talent Beyond CV and CGPA

Nexus Grad helps employers find, understand, and engage students and graduates using clearer signals of readiness, RoleFit, skills, evidence, availability, practical exposure, and career interests.

Hiring students, interns, fresh graduates, and skills-based talent should not depend only on CVs, CGPA, academic results, or generic job applications.

Nexus Grad gives employers a clearer way to discover early talent who are actively building their employability journey.

Through Talent Request, Talent Profile, Talent Logbook evidence, Work Readiness Index, RoleFit, and direct engagement tools, Nexus Grad helps companies identify suitable student, graduate, and TVET talent for part-time roles, internships, fresh graduate jobs, and skills-based opportunities.

Find early talent faster.Understand candidates beyond CV and CGPA.Build your future talent pipeline earlier.
The Challenge

Graduate Hiring Is Difficult When CVs and CGPA Do Not Show the Full Person

Many employers want to hire students, interns, fresh graduates, and TVET talent, but the usual hiring process often makes it difficult to identify who is truly suitable.

CVs and CGPA may show part of a candidate’s background, but they often do not show work readiness, motivation, role alignment, real experience, behaviour, interests, practical skills, or growth potential.

Nexus Grad was built to help employers reduce this guesswork.

Short Highlight

Nexus Grad helps employers move from CV and CGPA screening to clearer student, graduate, and TVET talent discovery.

Recruiter Questions
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Who is actually ready?

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Who fits the role?

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Who has relevant skills and evidence?

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Who has practical exposure or technical capability?

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Who is available for part-time work, internship, or fresh graduate roles?

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Who is worth engaging early?

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Who has the potential to grow with the company?

What You Can Do

A Smarter Way to Discover and Engage Early Talent

Nexus Grad is built specifically for student and graduate employability. This means employers are not searching through a generic job portal. They are accessing a focused talent ecosystem designed for early-career entries.

Benefit 01
Discover Talent Built for Early-Career Roles

Find students and graduates who are suitable for part-time jobs, internships, fresh graduate opportunities, and skills-based roles.

Benefit 02
Create Talent Requests Based on Your Hiring Needs

Describe the talent you need and use Nexus Grad to identify suitable profiles based on role needs, skills, readiness, RoleFit, availability, location, and career interests.

Benefit 03
Understand Candidates Beyond CV and CGPA

Review structured Talent Profiles, Talent Logbook evidence, Work Readiness Index, RoleFit, skills, experience, practical training, and interests before shortlisting.

Benefit 04
Filter Talent More Clearly

Search and filter talent by education background, programme, institution, skills, interests, availability, internship timeline, graduation timeline, training background, and readiness indicators.

Benefit 05
Engage Talent Earlier

Connect with students before they graduate and build future talent pipelines before hiring becomes urgent.

Benefit 06
Shortlist with More Confidence

Use clearer employability and role-alignment signals to reduce guesswork and improve the quality of your shortlist.

Talent Request

Tell Nexus Grad What Talent You Need

Talent Request is a guided hiring feature that helps employers describe their talent needs clearly.

Instead of only posting a job and waiting for applications, employers can create a Talent Request based on the type of student or graduate talent they want to discover.

You can use Talent Request for part-time roles, internships, fresh graduate jobs, entry-level hiring, project-based support, technical roles, skills-based roles, and future talent pipeline building.

Highlight Message

Talent Request helps employers move from “Who applied?” to “Who fits what we need?”
What Employers Can Define
  • Role or function needed.
  • Part-time, internship, fresh graduate, or skills-based opportunity.
  • Required skills or preferred skills.
  • Education background, field of study, or training pathway.
  • Technical skills or certifications.
  • Location or work arrangement.
  • Availability or hiring timeline.
  • Internship or graduation period.
  • Preferred interests or specialisations.
  • Readiness or RoleFit expectations.
What Talent Request Helps With
  • Turn hiring needs into clearer talent criteria.
  • Discover suitable student and graduate profiles.
  • Reduce irrelevant applications.
  • Shortlist based on readiness, RoleFit, skills, evidence, and practical exposure.
  • Engage talent directly from a more focused pool.
  • Build a reusable early talent pipeline.
Talent Signals

Identify the Right Talent with More Than CV and CGPA

Nexus Grad helps employers evaluate student and graduate talent using structured employability signals. Instead of relying only on resumes or academic results, employers understand the candidate holistically.

Signal 01
Talent Profile

The Talent Profile gives employers a structured view of the candidate’s education, skills, interests, achievements, work preferences, experience, training background, and career direction.

Employer Value

Helps you understand the person behind the CV before deciding who to engage.

Signal 02
Talent Logbook Evidence

The Talent Logbook captures projects, internships, part-time work, certifications, competitions, leadership roles, volunteering, activities, achievements, work exposure, practical training, and work-based learning.

Employer Value

Helps you see what the candidate has actually done, not just what they claim on a resume.

Signal 03
Work Readiness Index

The Work Readiness Index helps show how prepared a student or graduate is across key employability areas such as knowledge, skills, behaviour, work exposure, and engagement.

Employer Value

Helps you identify candidates who may be more prepared for workplace expectations.

Signal 04
RoleFit

RoleFit helps show how aligned a student or graduate may be with specific role pathways based on their profile, interests, skills, evidence, and development progress.

Employer Value

Helps you find candidates who are not only available, but more aligned with the role you are hiring for.

Signal 05
Practical Skills

For TVET and skills-based talent, Nexus Grad helps employers see practical training, technical skills, certifications, workshop exposure, industry placements, and work-based learning evidence.

Employer Value

Helps you identify practical talent for technical, service, operations, and skilled roles.

Signal 06
Availability & Timeline

Nexus Grad helps employers understand when students are available for part-time work, internship, fresh graduate roles, or skills-based opportunities.

Employer Value

Helps you plan earlier and engage talent before they enter the open job market.

Signal 07
Interests & Career Direction

Students and graduates can indicate career interests, preferred role areas, and industry preferences, helping recruiters filter for target motivations.

Employer Value

Helps you engage talent who are more likely to be interested in your company, industry, or opportunity type.

Opportunities

Build Your Early Talent Pipeline Before Hiring Becomes Urgent

Nexus Grad focuses on opportunities designed specifically for students, fresh graduates, TVET talent, and early-career talent. Connect earlier and build pipelines with confidence.

Opportunity 1

Access Student Talent for Flexible Work

Part-time roles help students gain work exposure while giving employers access to motivated talent for flexible support, customer-facing roles, operations, events, admin, service, retail, marketing, and other early work opportunities.

Employer Value

Build early relationships with students while supporting their employability development.

Opportunity 2

Identify Future Talent Through Real Workplace Exposure

Internships help employers evaluate students in real work settings while giving students meaningful exposure to industry practices, workplace culture, role expectations, and future career pathways.

Employer Value

Create a stronger pipeline for future graduate hiring.

Opportunity 3

Hire Graduates Ready to Begin Their Career

Fresh graduate jobs help employers connect with graduates who are entering the workforce and looking for suitable entry-level opportunities. Nexus Grad helps employers review readiness, RoleFit, skills, evidence, and interests before engaging candidates.

Employer Value

Make early-career hiring more focused and less dependent on CV keywords alone.

Opportunity 4

Discover Practical Talent for Technical and Operational Roles

Nexus Grad supports TVET students and graduates who are building technical, vocational, and skills-based career pathways. Employers can discover TVET talent based on training background, certifications, technical skills, practical exposure, readiness, availability, and RoleFit.

Employer Value

Identify practical talent for technical, service, operations, production, maintenance, automotive, engineering, hospitality, retail, and industry-specific roles.

Talent Sourcing Strategy

Do not wait until graduation to compete for talent. Build your early talent pipeline earlier.

Talent Network

Connect with Students and Graduates from Our University and TVET Network

Nexus Grad connects employers to a growing student and graduate employability ecosystem.

Nexus Grad works with universities, colleges, polytechnics, TVET institutions, education partners, industry bodies, and ecosystem collaborators to support student employability and connect emerging talent with real employer opportunities.

For employers, this means access to a growing network of students and graduates who are building their Talent Profiles, recording evidence through the Talent Logbook, improving their work readiness, and preparing for part-time, internship, fresh graduate, and skills-based opportunities.

Through Nexus Grad, companies can reach early talent across education partners, programmes, cohorts, fields of study, and training pathways.

Supporting Message

By joining Nexus Grad, employers are not only hiring talent. They are connecting to a stronger employability pathway between education and industry.
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How It Works

Discover, Shortlist, and Engage Talent More Directly

Nexus Grad helps employers move beyond passive job posting. Employers can create Talent Requests, discover profiles, review readiness, shortlist, and engage talent directly on-platform.

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Create a Talent Request

Describe the type of student, graduate, or skills-based talent you need.

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Discover Suitable Talent

Review profiles based on readiness, RoleFit, skills, evidence, practical exposure, availability, and interests.

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Shortlist Candidates

Save, compare, and shortlist candidates who match your hiring needs.

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Step 4
Engage Talent Directly

Connect with suitable candidates for part-time roles, internships, fresh graduate jobs, skills-based roles, or future opportunities.

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Build Your Talent Pipeline

Keep track of promising students and graduates for future hiring needs.

Supporting MessageInstead of waiting for the right candidate to apply, Nexus Grad helps employers discover suitable talent earlier.

Why Nexus Grad

Built for Employability and Early Talent Discovery

Most job portals focus on job postings and applications. Nexus Grad focuses on students and graduates who are actively building their employability journey, providing recruiters rich early signals.

Traditional Job Portals

  • List general job openings.
  • Depend heavily on CVs and keywords.
  • Often use academic results as a limited screening point.
  • Treat fresh graduates as one of many applicant groups.
  • Often create high-volume, low-context applications.
  • Provide limited visibility into readiness, evidence, practical capability, and role fit.
  • Start when the candidate is already applying.

Nexus Grad

  • Built specifically for students and graduates.
  • Supports academic, technical, vocational, and skills-based pathways.
  • Focuses on employability, readiness, evidence, and role direction.
  • Supports part-time, internship, fresh graduate, and skills-based opportunities.
  • Uses Talent Profile, Talent Logbook, Work Readiness Index, RoleFit, and Digital Mentorship.
  • Helps employers discover talent beyond CV and CGPA.
  • Allows employers to create Talent Requests based on actual hiring needs.
  • Supports early engagement and future talent pipeline building.
Outcomes

Hire Early Talent with More Clarity and Less Guesswork

Nexus Grad helps employers make student and graduate hiring more focused, structured, and confidence-building.

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Better Talent Visibility

See more than CVs through profiles, evidence, readiness, RoleFit, practical skills, and interests.

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Better Shortlisting

Use clearer signals to identify candidates who better match your hiring needs.

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Earlier Engagement

Connect with students and graduates before hiring becomes urgent.

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Stronger Talent Pipeline

Build a future pool of interns, part-time workers, fresh graduates, and skills-based talent.

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More Relevant Talent Discovery

Reach talent who are suitable for early-career opportunities.

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Better Hiring Confidence

Make decisions with more structured information and less guesswork.

Start Sourcing Now

Start Hiring Smarter with Nexus Grad

Find students and graduates who are building their employability journey. Create Talent Requests, discover profiles beyond CV and CGPA, review readiness and RoleFit signals, shortlist suitable candidates, and build your future early talent pipeline.

Built for companies hiring students, interns, fresh graduates, TVET talent, and early-career talent.