Engaging students in your business just got easier.

Bring students onto your projects without building a student program from scratch. Twenties helps employers translate real business needs into fully scoped projects, connect with top-performing students, manage project milestones, evaluate performance, and build verified evidence of capability before making a hire.

Davina
STUDENT PROFILE

Davina

International Relations · Minor in Health and Society

University of CalgarySKILLS
ResearchCommunicationPublic speakingLeadership

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Platform CalgaryZesty CircleCircuit StreamUniversity of CalgaryUniversity of AlbertaMount Royal UniversityBiogas WorldCalgary Innovation CoalitionOsuji & Smith LawyersCalgary Black Chambers

Choose your path

Connecting college and career through real business projects.

Twenties brings employers, students, and education partners together through structured experiential learning, turning real business needs into project-based experiences where students apply their skills, employers evaluate capability, and education connects more closely to the world of work.

Start where the work is

You do not need an internship programme to run one useful project.
Begin with a focused need. We will help you decide whether it fits.

Explore the twenties platform

How it works

From business needs to verified capability.

Twenties turns real business needs into project-based experiences, connecting employers, students, and education partners, and creating evidence that leads to opportunity.

Why organizations choose Twenties

Access motivated, job-ready talent

Connect with students selected for project fit, with the skills, readiness, and motivation to contribute to real business work.

Save time with end-to-end project support

From scoping and student matching to onboarding, milestones, and completion, Twenties provides the structure and support to keep projects moving.

Lower-risk way to evaluate future hires

See how students solve problems, communicate, respond to feedback, and deliver real work before deciding whether to hire.

Strengthen education and industry connections

Engage emerging talent through structured experiential learning and build meaningful connections to colleges, universities, and the future workforce.

Create measurable impact in your community

Turn real business needs into paid, career-connected experiences that give students practical exposure while creating useful outcomes for your organization.

01

Discover

Share your business need or explore projects that match your goals.

02

Scope

Turn the need into a clear project with outcomes, milestones and timeline.

03

Match

Connect with top-performing students who are the right fit.

04

Onboard

Align on expectations, tools and start dates.

05

Work

Students complete the project with milestone tracking and support.

06

Evaluate

Review submissions, provide feedback and rate performance.

07

Verify

Build a verified skill record to showcase capability and unlock next opportunities.

Why it matters

Emerging talent can contribute before you’re ready to hire.

Real business projects give employers a practical way to move important work forward, engage students, evaluate capability, and build an early talent pipeline without creating a traditional internship or student program.

For employers

Evaluate how students solve problems, communicate, respond to feedback, and deliver real work before making your next hiring decision.

For students

Apply your skills to real business projects, receive employer feedback, and leave with verified evidence of what you can do.

For education partners

Give students structured access to real business challenges while strengthening employer connections and creating more career-connected learning opportunities.

Why Twenties

Built to make student engagement work.

Access to students is only the beginning. When students understand the problem, what’s expected, and what success looks like, they’re better positioned to contribute meaningful work. Twenties provides that structure through scoped projects, clear milestones, employer feedback, and evaluation, helping businesses get more from student engagement while making capability visible.

Twenties First Project

A low-risk way to test what this could do for your business.

Start with one approved project. We support scoping, matching, milestones, delivery, and evaluation. No subscription. No long-term commitment.

Post a project

Capability before commitment

What could move forward in 30 focused hours?

If there is a project on your list that matters but never quite reaches the top, that may be the place to begin.

See what makes a good project
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