At launch
Anonymised profiles
No name, age or photo by default. Employers meet your skills before anything that invites bias.
Career Hive is a fair, regional jobs, courses and talent network for the North East — connecting candidates, employers and training providers across the region. We're putting the finishing touches to it now.
The North East has the UK's highest economic inactivity — yet local employers say most vacancies are hard to fill. That's not a talent problem. It's a hiring problem. Career Hive is built on three principles to fix it.
Names, ages and photos are hidden, so the first thing anyone sees is what you can actually do. Merit, not background.
We retire the age-revealing timeline for a competency-based profile — and translate life experience into real, named skills.
Our AI never judges, filters or rejects. It helps people articulate their value and bridges them to the employers who need them.
Career Hive serves three groups at once. Pick yours to see what lands at launch — and what's on the way after.
Built so your skills speak first — not your age, your address, or the gaps in your CV.
No name, age or photo by default. Employers meet your skills before anything that invites bias.
Upload your CV and we translate it into a clear, competency-based profile in seconds.
A competency format replaces the age-revealing work-history timeline. Education without the prestige bias.
AI helps you complete the long, complex application forms that public-sector roles demand.
Translates career gaps and volunteering into tangible competencies, so you're interview-ready.
Spot exactly what you've missed after a break — and the local micro-courses that close the gap.
The region faces a paradox: close to 59% of local vacancies are ‘hard-to-fill’, yet the North East holds the UK's highest economic inactivity rate. Highly automated platforms make it worse — filtering out thousands of capable people managing health conditions, caring responsibilities or career breaks. Career Hive is built to turn that untapped talent into the region's greatest advantage.
The ‘exact match’ trap.
Employers rely on exact past job titles and continuous CVs — and miss the capable ‘almost there’ candidates whose paths aren't linear.
AI skills-based matching. Our Ethical AI Skills Matrix infers transferable potential — translating years spent caring into competencies like budgeting, crisis management and organisation.
Systemic bias against gaps.
Recruitment algorithms penalise career breaks — a structural barrier for the 107,000+ residents here who are inactive through long-term ill health or caring.
Anonymised, bias-free screening. A generic ID and gender-neutral avatar mean employers first see only skills and competency scores — so merit is the only thing left on the page.
SMEs lack inclusive HR.
Over 99% of North East businesses are SMEs or micro-businesses — most without the HR to design inclusive roles or navigate adjustments.
The Employer Hub & AI Role Carving. An outsourced digital HR toolkit. Role Carving suggests which tasks could flex, go remote or split into a job-share — making inclusive design frictionless.
Hidden talent, made visible — and put to work.
Finalising the platform with regional partners. Join the list to shape what we ship.
First candidates, employers and providers get hands-on early access in selected boroughs.
Open across Tyneside, Wearside and County Durham — free profiles, fair hiring.
Skills inference, role carving and richer regional insights roll out.