PRACTICAL PROGRAMS · COMPANY EXPOSURE · MATCHING OPPORTUNITIES

Shape Your Future with Real Skills, Real Projects, and Real Experience.

Shape combines mentorship, real company projects, practical programs, and AI assisted matching to help talent become company ready.

What is Shape

Where learning meets real experience, a practical pathway from skill to opportunity, designed with the companies that actually hire.

  • Practical programs designed around what companies actually need.
  • Real company projects, not classroom exercises.
  • Mentors who evaluate, coach, and unblock you every week.
  • AI assisted matching that opens a recruitment pathway when you are ready.
SHAPE · DEFINITION

A workforce platform.

Shape is a practical career acceleration and workforce development platform, built to help candidates become company ready through real skills, real projects, mentorship, apprenticeship style experience, and direct company exposure.

Shape is not
A school
A course platform
A job board
Why Shape is different

Built for the gap between
knowing and doing.

Most learning ends at the certificate. Shape begins at the certificate, and ends when you are ready for the role.

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Learn by doing

Programs structured around weekly deliverables, not passive lectures. We measure output, not attendance.

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Real projects

Briefs sourced from partner companies. Your work answers a real business need under workplace conditions.

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Mentorship

Every Shaper is matched with a senior mentor for weekly reviews, feedback, and unblock sessions.

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Opportunity readiness

A measurable readiness score that signals to companies when you are ready to be matched.

How it works

From application to
a recruitment pathway.

A clear, deliberate process that moves at the speed of your work. No gimmicks, no guarantees, just a structured way to become company ready.

01

Apply

Tell us about your background, motivations, and what you want to build next. Applying is free.

02

Get assessed

A practical evaluation to understand your starting level. No quizzes, real tasks.

03

Join the right level

Foundation, Advanced, or Career Change, matched to where you actually are today.

04

Get matched with a company

You are paired with a partner company to work on real projects, with mentor support every week.

05

Build your verified profile

Your skills, project outcomes, and mentor endorsements come together into your Shape profile.

06

Enter the recruitment pathway

Verified Shapers who meet the eligibility criteria enter the recruitment pathway with our partner companies.

ELIGIBILITY APPLIES
Programs

Three programs.
One serious outcome.

All Shape programs run on your own time. We just ask for a minimum weekly commitment so you actually move forward. Choose by where you are today, not by what sounds impressive.

21 DAYS · ON YOUR OWN TIME

Foundation

Build the practical basics

For early career talent and students. Build the day one skills companies expect, in a focused 21 day track that fits around your life.

Format
Learn at your own pace
Commitment
Minimum 2h per week
  • Practical skill foundations
  • Mentor check ins every week
  • Verified Shape profile
Start with Foundation
6 MONTHS · ON YOUR OWN TIME

Career Change

Pivot fully into a new field

For professionals shifting careers. A complete pathway from foundations to apprenticeship grade portfolio, paced to fit alongside your current life.

Format
Learn at your own pace
Commitment
Minimum 5h per week
  • End to end skill rebuild
  • Company exposure each quarter
  • Career coaching layer
  • Recruitment pathway access
Pivot with Shape
Real experience

Workplace style
assignments, every week.

No toy projects. Shapers work on real briefs delivered by partner companies, under timelines, expectations, and review cycles that mirror the real thing.

  • CP
    Company projects
    Briefs sourced directly from our partner companies, not academic case studies.
  • WS
    Workplace style assignments
    Sprints, standups, code reviews, design crits, the rhythm of an actual team.
  • BF
    Business feedback
    Reviews from the company stakeholders themselves, not just instructors.
Sprint 7 · Inventory App
CARTHAGE CO. · DUE FRI 16:00
ON TRACK
Audit existing inventory schemaDONE
Design low stock alert flowDONE
Build dashboard cards in ReactIN PROGRESS
Write Cypress smoke testsQUEUED
Demo to stakeholderQUEUED
Mentorship

A senior in your corner,
every single week.

Mentorship is not a perk on Shape, it is the spine. Every Shaper is matched with a working senior who guides, evaluates, and unblocks them through the program.

  • G
    Guidance
    Weekly one on one sessions tailored to your level, project, and career direction.
  • F
    Feedback
    Code, design, and presentation reviews from people who do this for a living.
  • E
    Evaluation
    Honest, structured assessments that feed directly into your readiness score.
  • CS
    Career support
    Practice interviews, portfolio reviews, and warm introductions within the partner network.
Your mentor pool
3 of 47 senior mentors
Sarra K.
SENIOR PRODUCT DESIGNER · INSTADEEP
AVAILABLE THU
Mehdi T.
STAFF ENGINEER · EXPENSYA
REVIEWING
Hela B.
DATA LEAD · DABCHY
BUSY
NEXT SESSION · THU 17:00 · "EMPTY STATE REVIEW"
JOIN →
Highlight Your Skills

Your work, verified.
Your profile, hireable.

Every Shaper builds a verified profile that companies actually trust, endorsed by mentors, validated by real project outcomes, and matched against open opportunities.

YT
Youssef Triki
@youssef.shape · COHORT 12
VERIFIED
Verified skills
React · 4 endorsements Node.js · 3 PostgreSQL · 3 Docker · 1 Figma · 1
Real projects shipped
Logistics dashboard
CARTHAGE CO. · 6 WEEKS
★ 4.8
Payments onboarding flow
FINTECH PARTNER · 4 WEEKS
★ 4.6
Readiness
92/100
Status
Open to matching
NINE COMPANIES INTERESTED
For Business

Access trained junior talent before you hire.

Stop interviewing strangers. Stop guessing on portfolios. With Shape, your team works alongside Shapers on real briefs, evaluates them in context, and picks who you want to bring on full time.

Talent matching · Frontend
Top match Tunis Junior
Amina K.
FRONTEND · COHORT 14
React · TS · Next
92
Youssef T.
FULLSTACK · COHORT 12
Node · React · Postgres
88
Hela B.
DATA · COHORT 13
Python · SQL · dbt
81
Skander M.
DESIGN · COHORT 14
Figma · Webflow
79
Brand Ambassador

Refer candidates. Build your brand. Earn referral rewards.

Be the link between your community and the next generation of company ready talent. Shape Ambassadors get a verified status, exclusive events, and referral rewards for every Shaper they bring in.

Verified ambassador status Referral rewards per Shaper Co branded content kits
SHAPE TALK · MONTHLY DROP

Career insights, future skills, company ready talent.

A monthly content series featuring partner companies, mentors, and Shapers, covering what is actually moving in early career hiring.

EP 14
What "company ready" actually means today
PARTNER PANEL · 32 MIN
EP 13
The skills that did not exist eighteen months ago
FUTURE SKILLS · 26 MIN
EP 12
Inside a Shape mentor review
MENTORSHIP · 18 MIN
Ready when you are

Ready to shape
what comes next?

Whether you are starting your career, rebuilding it, or hiring the people who will, Shape is the practical pathway to the next thing.