Talent Discovery
Every other platform matches on keywords. This one matches on how well someone can think.
A job description says Python, SQL, communication. A portal returns everyone who typed those words. Udgam returns the candidates who have demonstrably reached the cognitive level your role actually requires.
- Cognitive-depth filtering
- JD translation in one paste
- Nothing self-declared
The matching gap
Keyword match tells you a candidate has heard of a thing.
Can use a known method on a familiar problem. Follows a defined approach reliably.
Typically hired for: IT services roles, execution-heavy work
Can break an unfamiliar problem apart, find the causal structure, and identify where an approach fails.
Typically hired for: Product engineering, systems roles
Can judge between competing approaches against criteria, and defend the judgement.
Typically hired for: Senior individual contributors, consulting
Can produce something that did not exist — a design, a method, a working prototype.
Typically hired for: R&D, innovation, founding teams
This is the whole differentiator
Udgam knows which level each student has actually demonstrated, in which subject areas, verified through marked assessments approved by a head of department — not through a self-assessment slider. That is a signal no other talent platform in India can produce, because none of them are connected to the assessment layer.
You don't have to learn anything
Paste the job description you already wrote.
Paste the job description you already wrote.
Derived cognitive profile
Translate a description to see the profile it actually implies.
A demonstration using pre-written mappings and sample candidate counts. The production translation considers more of your description than this and applies its own priority weighting, which you review and adjust before anything is saved.
What the filter returns
From a stream to a shortlist of twelve.
A worked filter — Data Analyst
- Python at Apply or above240 students
- Database management at Analyse or above180 students
- Statistical analysis at Analyse or above142 students
- All three criteria together89 students
- Gold or Apex tier34 students
- With a relevant internship18 students
- On no other company's shortlist12 students
Recommended: start with these twelve.
What is on a candidate card
- Institution, programme, year and access tier
- Top three cognitive strengths, with attainment percentages
- A radar summary of performance across all six levels
- Internships completed with supervisor ratings; hackathons with ranks
- A match score against your specific job description
- Name shown or anonymised until shortlisting — configurable by plan
Other filters available
- Open network across every institution, or targeted to named institutions, states, or accreditation grade
- Year of graduation — current, next, or two years out
- Verified skill badges and location preference
- Saved searches with alerts when a new matching student joins
Why the signal is trustworthy
Four things a student cannot fake.
Attainment comes from marked work
Every percentage traces to specific questions on specific assessments, mapped to a cognitive level and approved by a head of department before it counts.
Badges need an external verifier
Faculty, a supervisor, or a platform assessment. Nothing on a profile can be self-claimed.
Endorsements are specific
Not a one-click LinkedIn endorsement. A named person endorsing a named skill at a named level, in a stated context.
Higher levels are weighted, so rote fails
Create-level attainment is worth six times a Remember-level pass. Memorisation cannot lift a profile into your shortlist.
From listing to hire
The whole process, on one platform.
Post the listing
Title, type, stipend, location, minimum tier, eligible streams and application deadline. The platform suggests the competency profile; you confirm.Udgam reviews it
Every listing is checked within 24 to 48 hours for legitimacy, completeness, non-discriminatory requirements and accurate competency mapping.It goes live to matched students
Targeted students see it ranked first; all eligible students can still find it. You choose open, targeted, or both.Applications arrive ranked
Ranked by match score, not by submission time. Shortlist, hold or reject with one click; status updates send automatically.
Interview through the platform
Integrated calendar and video link. No separate scheduling thread.Select and onboard
The platform generates a structured internship plan — objectives, deliverable schedule, supervisor details.Rate at mid-point and completion
Two structured rubrics, generated from the role's competency profile. A final score at or above 4.0 flags the candidate as PPO-ready.Feed the loop
Six months after joining, a short employer survey. That data flows back to the institution's curriculum review — and improves the pool you hire from next year.
target review time before a listing goes live, so a requisition never sits in a queue
of listings approved on first submission — the review is a quality gate, not an obstacle
cold messages possible to a student who has not applied to you. Anti-spam is structural, not a policy
The recruiter isn’t guessing. They are seeing exactly which students have demonstrated the cognitive level their role requires.
Talent Access
India's verified talent — from Nagpur, Coimbatore, Guwahati, not just IITs.
Placements
Not more drives. Better matches. Lasting placements.
10X Faster
Accreditation in a click. Projects in a semester. Placements in a season.
Corporates
Keep exploring
- Why Udgam for CorporatesKnow your next hire three years before you hire them.Read
- 3-Year Early Access ProgrammeWatchlist a student in Year 1. Hire them in Year 4.Read
- Hackathons & Campus EventsBranded challenges with judged, CO-linked submissions.Read
- Co-working with UniversitiesCurriculum seats, joint labs, IP co-creation.Read
- Partner CommunitiesStructured early access for industry bodies and HR networks.Read
Pre-launch
Get first access to the talent pool.
Sign a letter of intent now and your roles are the first ones students see when the platform opens in Q1 2027.