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StudentVenture: A Mission-Built Platform Fixing Early-Talent Unemployment From the Ground Up

Every year, millions of students across the UK face the same cycle: study hard, graduate, apply everywhere… and hear nothing back. It’s a national problem - one that damages confidence, limits potential, and wastes talent. And for Liam Jeffery, it wasn’t a statistic. It was personal.


StudentVenture exists today because Liam experienced the problem firsthand - not in theory, not academically, but in the lived reality of early-career rejection shared by students everywhere. His journey became the blueprint for a company built with a simple, powerful mission: To build a fair, meritocratic, global pathway into work for early talent.


The Personal Mission


Before StudentVenture was even an idea, Liam was experiencing the same frustration thousands of students face daily. As an Economics student from the University of Sussex, he applied for hundreds of internships, placements, and graduate roles - and heard “no” over and over again. It wasn’t just him. His housemates, peers, and friends were facing the same silence.


This wasn’t entrepreneurship for the sake of starting a business. It was a response to a problem that hit every part of his life - financially, emotionally, and academically.


To survive while studying and building the earliest version of StudentVenture, Liam worked:

  • Night shifts at Sainsbury’s

  • Hours cleaning cars at a Brighton start-up

  • Late nights building the business and doing outreach


It was built from necessity - and from the belief that merit, work ethic, and character should matter more than privilege, connections, or the name of a university.


This personal mission never changed. It became the heartbeat of StudentVenture.


A Mission That Grew Beyond One Person


While the mission began with Liam, StudentVenture quickly grew into something much larger.

What started as a simple student-to-business project evolved into a scalable platform - shaped by the belief that students deserve practical experience before graduating, and companies deserve a way to evaluate real skills, not just CVs.


As the mission expanded, so did the team.


StudentVenture attracted people who believed in the cause:

  • A senior ex-director from UNiDAYS

  • A global wealth manager

  • A multimillionaire agency founder

  • Developers from Romania and Colombia

  • And thousands of students who saw StudentVenture as hope, not just a product


Together, they turned a personal mission into a global opportunity.


UNiDAYS Partnership

The partnership with UNiDAYS, the world’s largest student platform with over 29 million members, became a defining moment.


With credibility, scale, and the support of a respected global brand, StudentVenture gained:

  • Mainstream visibility

  • A massive user base

  • Trust from companies

  • The ability to impact early-career hiring at national and international levels


What began as one student’s fight for fairness became a platform capable of reshaping early-career recruitment at scale.


Solving a Real Problem


Today, StudentVenture connects students and companies through:

  • Paid micro-internships

  • Short, flexible projects

  • Workshops and webinars

  • Hackathons

  • Skills-based application tasks that remove bias


Students don’t get filtered out by their background or judged by their CV alone. They are evaluated on what they can do, not where they came from.


Companies benefit from:

  • Faster hiring

  • A deeper talent pool

  • Job-ready candidates

  • Real work samples

  • Reduced hiring risk


It’s a system where students gain experience, businesses gain talent, and everyone benefits.


More Than a Company. A Mission With Momentum.


StudentVenture is not about one founder. It’s about the millions of students who deserve a fair chance.The companies tired of outdated hiring methods.The employers wanting to see potential, not just a CV.The graduates who were rejected for reasons beyond their control. The mission to fix a broken system - permanently.


Liam’s personal story is only the spark.The real fire is the mission StudentVenture is carrying forward:


To build a fair, meritocratic, global pathway into work for early talent - one opportunity at a time.


Backed by an incredible team, global partners, and a generation demanding change, StudentVenture is just getting started.And the mission is bigger than ever.

 
 
 
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