Skills-to-work platform
Verified skills.
Real work.
Apply to programmes run by innovation hubs across Northern Nigeria, learn in cohorts, prove what you can do and connect to employers.
Built with Kirkira Innovation Hub for the iDICE Centre of Excellence.
For learners
From application to a job, in one place
Train
Cohort learning online and offline, in English and Hausa.
Prove
Assessed work becomes verified evidence and credentials.
Connect
Consented profiles matched to employer needs.
Work
Interviews, placements and retention, tracked.
For innovation hubs
Run your call for applications, selection and reporting without spreadsheets
Talentral is built for hubs delivering funded skills programmes, with the evidence funders ask for kept as you go.
Open a call in minutes
Your programme page and a mobile-first application form with the questions funders ask for, ready to share on WhatsApp.
Screen fairly at scale
A weighted rubric, independent reviewer scores and a ranked list. Shortlist hundreds in one action, with every decision logged.
Keep applicants informed
Decision emails in your hub’s name and group messages by email and SMS, personalised with each applicant’s name and reference.
Selection done elsewhere?
Import participants chosen on a funder’s platform from CSV or Excel. They join your cohort alongside everyone who applied here.
Milestone evidence in one click
A funder-ready report on who applied and who was selected, by gender, age, disability and state, and how selection was done.
Your hub, your brand
Your own address such as kirkira.talentral.ng, with your logo and colours on every page and email.
Become a founding hub
Join the hubs shaping Talentral. We set you up, train your team and stay close while your first cohort runs.
Register interest- ✓50% off your first cohortFounding hubs pay half the standard fee for their first cohort.
- ✓Pay after your cohort completesNo payment up front. You pay once the cohort is complete, in step with funder milestone payments.
- ✓Set-up and training includedHub profile, first programme and team onboarding, done with you.
- ✓A say in what we buildRegular calls with the product team; founding hubs’ requests come first.
Partner hubs
Find a programme
Founding hubs are setting up
The first calls for applications open soon. Follow your local hub for the announcement.
I run a hub
Bring your next cohort to Talentral
Tell us about your hub. We will show you Talentral with your own programme and set you up as a founding hub.
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