Beyond Employability
Turning potential into performance.
We bring employability to life through realistic recruitment and workplace experiences, helping you understand what employers are looking for, recognise your strengths and develop through meaningful feedback and practice.
01 Experience
Practise in realistic situations.
Experience recruitment and workplace situations before they count.
02 Develop
Turn insight into capability.
Understand how you come across and what to work on next.
03 Excel
Turn potential into performance.
Demonstrate your capability when it matters.
Why GRADXL
Employability isn't something you simply learn about.
It's something you experience.
Students reach recruitment processes having read plenty of advice, and still meet a group exercise, an assessment centre or a competency interview for the first time when it counts.
Advice isn't experience
Knowing what an assessment centre is does not prepare you for taking part in one. The gap is practice, not information.
Nobody tells you how you came across
Candidates rarely learn how their behaviour was perceived, so the same patterns repeat across every process.
Improvement needs a second attempt
Real development comes from doing something, understanding it, and doing it again better. GRADXL is built around that loop.
Built from real experience
We know what happens on the other side of the table.
GRADXL is built on years of experience designing and delivering real recruitment and assessment experiences, and seeing first-hand what happens when people have to put their skills into practice.
We've seen where people get stuck, what strong performance actually looks like and, importantly, the difference that meaningful feedback and another opportunity to try can make.
That's why GRADXL goes beyond telling you what employers want. We help you experience the situations you'll face, understand your own performance and develop the capabilities to approach them with greater confidence.
What are you preparing for?
Start with what you need
Choose the situation that best describes where you are now. Each route takes you to clear, relevant guidance in Explore.
Coming to GRADXL
Practise. Understand. Improve.
We're building tools that let you experience realistic recruitment situations, understand how you performed and know what to work on next.
01 Practise
Realistic recruitment exercises.
02 Understand
Personalised feedback and capability insight.
03 Improve
Development actions and repeat practice.
Your GRADXL
More than preparing for one application.
Every experience is an opportunity to understand more about how you perform. Over time, GRADXL will help you build a clearer picture of your capabilities, your development and the evidence you can take into recruitment.
Communication
Capability area
Collaboration
Capability area
Problem Solving
Capability area
Adaptability
Capability area
Self-awareness
Capability area
Illustrative capability areas only. No scores, progress or assessment results are shown.
Be first to practise with GRADXL
Join the early access list and we'll let you know as the first experiences become available.
Available now / Assessment Centres
Not sure if you're ready for your assessment centre?
Use the free GRADXL Assessment Centre Readiness Checklist to see where you're well prepared and what you may need to work on before the day.