Your public profile
Switch your record on and you appear on the leaderboard with your points by category, your band and your portfolio. Keep it off and you still see where you would sit, and what would earn you most next.
Get hired · for students and employers
We don’t stop at the certificate.We train for what employers ask for.
We read 315 AI job ads to see what hiring teams actually write down. Then we built every bootcamp around it, and a hiring board where your graded work does the talking.
For studentsHired on what you proved, not on a CV.
For employersEvery applicant arrives with a graded record.
The ruleNothing is self-reported. Nothing can be bought.
What employers ask for
315 job ads, read line by line.Shipped work beats a degree.
We counted what hiring teams write down, then mapped each ask to where you learn it with us.
39%of AI job ads ask for work you have shipped to production.
12%mention a degree of any kind. What you built matters more.
46%of the roles are remote. Your first job does not have to be in your city.
What AI job ads ask forWhere you learn it with us
- Shipped to production 39% Your 6 deployed projects
- Agents and agentic systems 39% Agentic AI Bootcamp
- Python 38% Every engineering bootcamp
- Ownership and autonomy 37% Your capstone and internship
- LLMs 34% Gen AI Bootcamp
- Evals and evaluation 23% LLM Evals and Reliability
- A portfolio or GitHub work 17% Your published portfolio
- Monitoring and observability 17% LLMOps Bootcamp
- AWS 16% Cloud Engineer with AI
- Anthropic or Claude 16% Claude Code for Engineering
- A degree of any kind 12%
- A certification 7%
Square1 Ai research, “What AI job ads ask for in 2026”: 315 AI, ML and data roles from 2,470 postings on Hacker News “Who is hiring?” (July to September), Remotive and Arbeitnow, collected 19 September 2026. Short ads under-report tools, and Australia is barely in the sample. Read the method
After your bootcamp
How we get you hired
Four steps after your bootcamp, each one aimed at what those ads ask for.
- 01Publish a portfolio they will openYour ten projects on your Square1 profile, each with a live link, a result and a paragraph for the person hiring.
- 02Get certified, with the score to back itYour certificate links to your graded record and competition rank, so an employer sees exactly what it measures.
- 03Prove it in the internship programmeReal projects with real teams. You leave with experience to talk about and a mentor’s reference.
- 04Get seen on the hiring boardEmployers post roles and browse profiles. You apply with your work, your rank and your mentor’s note.
The hiring board
Hired on what you proved.Two sides, one record.
Students build a record from graded work. Employers post roles and see that record with every application.
Your hiring record
What counts, and what each point is for
- Certification gradesYour best skill-check score per course, up to 10 each. 30 for an exam pass, 25 for a course certificate.
- ProjectsEach graded project’s score out of 100, divided by 10. A score under 60 earns nothing.
- Portfolio5 for each project in your public portfolio, and 10 for switching your public record on.
- Community3 a post, up to 30, and 1 a reply, up to 20.
- Competitions and research3 an entry, 8 for beating the baseline, and 15, 25 or 40 for bronze, silver or gold.
- Participation1 a lesson, up to 60, and 2 for each hiring-plan action, up to 40.
Every point comes from a grade or something the platform recorded. Caps keep volume from beating quality: forty replies cannot outrank one graded project.
Four bands
Where you sit on the board
- 0StartingWhere everyone begins, on day one.
- 50BuildingLessons under way, one graded project in a public portfolio, and your record switched on.
- 150ProvenA course finished with its certificate, four projects, some posts and a competition entry.
- 350StandoutA bootcamp done in full, with an exam pass and a medal.
Apply with your work
Applying is one step. The employer gets your points by category, your band, your portfolio, your public record and a note from you. You see what they did next: viewed, shortlisted, declined or hired.
Leaderboard
Ranked on graded work.Empty until it is earned.
Only students who switch their record on appear here. We will not fill it with sample names.
RankStudentBandPointsStrongest category
The first cohort’s records appear here after Cohort 1.
No one is on the board yet. The first row appears the day a student switches their record on.
0 public profiles0 open roles
Start the record employers will read.
The five-minute skill check places you in the right programme and level. Hiring? Post a role and it goes live within one business day.