What is a Partner Organisation?

A Traverse partner organisation is an employer that collaborates with Traverse to create and endorse challenges that assess candidates' skills and abilities in specific areas. These challenges are designed to reflect real-world job tasks and scenarios, submerged in the organisational culture and performance standards, ensuring that candidates demonstrate their capabilities in practical, engaging environments.

Key aspects of Traverse partner organisations include:

1. Co-creating challenges with Traverse to align with organisational standards and industry best practices.

2. Endorsing challenges or experiences that assess candidates' skills and abilities relevant to their specific roles and industries[1].

3. Gaining access to a curated talent pool by hosting challenges on the Traverse platform.

4. Having the first pick of candidates who successfully complete their endorsed challenges[1].

5. Leveraging Traverse's AI-driven assessments to evaluate candidates' performance and potential fit within their organisation.

6. Streamlining the recruitment process by efficiently screening candidates through the Traverse platform.

A partner organisation can develop two types of challenges on the Traverse platform:

1. Skill Challenge: Assesses fundamental skills applicable across diverse job roles, focusing on abilities beyond technical skills.

2. Role Challenge: Assesses a more specialized skill required for a specific job or industry, delving into job-specific tasks, procedures, or knowledge areas essential for successful performance in a particular role.

These challenges are designed to reflect real-world job tasks and scenarios, ensuring that candidates demonstrate their capabilities in practical, engaging environments. Partner organisations can co-create and endorse challenges that align with their specific job requirements and industry standards, allowing them to assess candidates based on their actual capabilities.

Traverse offers both private and public challenges, which differ in their purpose, accessibility, and usage:

Private Challenges

1. Customization: Private challenges are tailored to specific organisational needs and job requirements, ensuring that the challenges align with the organisation's standards and industry best practices and leverage more customisation.

2. Exclusive Access: Private challenges are only accessible to the organisation that created them, allowing them to assess candidates based on their specific requirements and needs.

3. First Pick: The organisation that created the private challenge has the first pick of candidates who successfully complete the challenge, ensuring they can identify and hire top talent based on their actual capabilities. The “rejected” candidates will form part of the talent database post selection.

Public Challenges

1. Accessibility: Public challenges are accessible to all organisations, universities and partners that subscribe to the Traverse platform, providing a broader pool of candidates for organisations to assess and hire.

2. Flexibility: Public challenges offer flexibility in terms of the types of challenges and roles available, allowing organisations to choose from a diverse range of challenges that cater to their specific needs.

In summary, private challenges are customised to specific organisational needs and provide exclusive access, while public challenges offer flexibility and a broader pool of candidates.

Here’s a quick video for an overview.

In case you would like to know more, reach out to Michael Ouwerkerk.