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From Invisible Skills to Undeniable Talent
An AI-powered workforce intelligence and EdTech social enterprise bridging the gap between education and employment across Africa.
Who we are
From Marketplace to Movement
TEK Scholars began in 2024 as an online opportunities marketplace, connecting young Africans with jobs, internships and scholarships. We built a community of 60,000+ learners, job seekers and employers.
Then the real problem surfaced. Employers could not find skilled candidates and job seekers lacked practical, provable competencies. Connecting talent to opportunities was only solving half of it.
Today we combine AI-driven screening, personalised upskilling, employer-sponsored training, industry certification and intelligent job matching. Skill to income, on one platform.
- Community Members
- 60K+Community Members
- Trained Participants
- 89Trained Participants
- Female Participation
- 29.2%Female Participation
Skills → Training → Placement → Income
A practical pipeline for Rwanda's digital economy.
Our Vision
To become Africa's leading AI-powered workforce intelligence and education technology platform, empowering millions of young people with future-ready skills while enabling organisations to build high-performing workforces.
Our Mission
To bridge the gap between education and employment by equipping young people with industry-relevant skills and helping organisations recruit, develop and retain exceptional talent through responsible AI, digital learning and workforce innovation.
What we do
Two Tracks. One Connected Ecosystem.
Open Learning builds the skills. The Career Pipeline provides the destination.
Learn
WorkCareer Pipeline
Employer-led and train-to-hire. We recruit from the community, train for the specific role, and place the top performers. Employer pays, learner is placed free.
See open roles
HireFor Employers
Brief the role and hire from ranked, pre-assessed candidates. Six weeks on the standard pathway, as little as two when it is urgent.
How hiring worksHow it works
One pipeline, from brief to hire
Six weeks on the standard pathway, as little as two on the urgent one. Learners scoring 75% or above who are not hired enter our talent pool for future roles.
Step 1
Employer Brief
Role, skills, headcount and salary range defined by the company.
Step 2
Community Recruit
The opening is announced to our 60,000+ members.
Step 3
AI-Assisted Screen
Candidates ranked by relevance, motivation and experience.
Step 4
AI-Assisted Training
Video modules, AI-graded assessments and an employer-set final project.
Step 5
Hire
The employer reviews ranked profiles and makes offers.
Open Learning
What People Are Learning Right Now
Our most-enrolled courses. Free ones start immediately; the rest take a short access request.
Free6 enrolled
AI Tools for Everyday Work
Practical prompting, automation and AI-assisted research for any role.
0 modulesRemote
Free5 enrolled
Digital Skills Foundations
A free self-paced introduction to working with APIs and modern digital tools.
1 moduleRemote
Free2 enrolled
Spreadsheets to Dashboards
Clean data, pivot it, and present findings people act on.
0 modulesRemote
45,000 RWF1 enrolled
Digital Marketing Essentials
Campaign planning, social content and measuring what actually worked.
0 modulesRemote
Free1 enrolled
Customer Service Excellence
Handling difficult conversations, retention, and written support tone.
0 modulesRemote
Impact at a glance
Validated With Paying Employers
Two paid cohorts, real placements, and a community that keeps growing.
60,000+
Community Members
Built in two years, zero paid marketing
52%
Placement Rate
Across two paid employer cohorts
21
Learners Trained
11 placed into paying jobs
60,100+
YouTube Subscribers
Across 345 videos
We didn't buy an audience. We built one.
Two years, zero paid marketing, 345 videos.
Why we exist
Connecting Skills to Real Work
72% of our community are high-school graduates or above, already learning through YouTube, WhatsApp and workshops — and invisible to hiring managers.
Our core purpose
- We prepare young people for the work employers are actually hiring for.
- We give employers a shortlist that has already been trained and assessed.
- We keep every qualified candidate in the pool, so nothing is wasted.
Proof
Trained Here. Hired There.
Real cohorts, real placements, real salaries.
54% placement rate
13 Trained, 7 Hired: Building a Tour-Guiding Team from Scratch
Lakeside needed guides with real customer skills. We recruited from the community, trained thirteen, and seven were hired at 150,000 RWF a month.
Read the story
50% placement rate
A Data-Entry Team, Trained and Placed in Six Weeks
Eight learners trained on the employer's own record-keeping workflow; four hired at 170,000 RWF a month.
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84% assessment score
From Watching Tutorials to a Paying Analyst Role
Two years of self-teaching on YouTube, no way to prove any of it. A verified assessment changed how employers replied.
Read the story“We described the role and got a shortlist that could already do the work. That is not how hiring normally goes here.”
Aline Uwimana
Operations Lead · Lakeside Tours Rwanda
Our network
Working With Partners Across Rwanda
Skills seen. Talent placed.
Ready to Hire, Learn, or Partner?
Whether you are hiring, building your own skills, or backing workforce development in Rwanda, we would like to hear from you.