Local talent,on tap
A Portuguese marketplace that connects university students with part-time, one-off and internship work, and gives employers a way to fill a shift in under a day - across web, iOS and Android.
One marketplace, built for the way students actually work
Students browse part-time shifts, one-off gigs, internships and campus events from a single app, and apply in a couple of taps. Employers post a role or send a staffing request over WhatsApp or the web, and Unilinkr does the matching - so the two sides meet where the hiring actually happens.
Made for Gen-Z students
A native iOS and Android app where roles, one-off gigs, internships and university events all live in one feed.
Built for shift-speed hiring
A last-minute cover request rarely arrives with notice, so the request-to-placement path is measured in hours, not weeks.
Localised, in Portuguese
The whole experience is written for the Portuguese market and the local student audience it serves.
Why is casual student hiring so hard to get right?
Restaurants, retailers and public programmes all hit the same wall: demand spikes without warning, students are hard to reach through ordinary job boards, and a two-week hiring cycle is useless when a shift opens tomorrow.
Students live on their phones, not on job boards. The audience is reachable through an app they already open every day - with roles, gigs and campus events in the same place - far more than through a classic listings site.
students already registered on the app - the audience a scatter-and-hope job board post could never reach in one place.
As published by Unilinkr.
What a two-sided student marketplace had to deliver
Unilinkr is designed as separate products for separate audiences, sharing one pool of talent and one matching engine.
Built for each side
- For students. Browse part-time shifts, one-off gigs and internships, apply in a couple of taps, and discover university events run by partners.
- For companies. Send a staffing request over WhatsApp or the web and get matched to available students nearby.
- For employability offices. Run a branded talent and events channel that connects their own students to local opportunities.
- For everyone. One matching engine and one pool of talent behind all three, localised in Portuguese.
Why it was hard
- Local organisations need flexible help fast, while 36,000 students want work that fits around their studies - two groups that kept missing each other.
- Demand spikes without warning, and students are hard to reach through ordinary job boards.
- A two-week hiring cycle is useless when a shift opens tomorrow.
Filling a casual role, the old way versus Unilinkr
A request goes out over WhatsApp or the web, Unilinkr matches it to nearby students, they apply in a couple of taps, and the employer confirms - which is what turns the comparison below into a median fill time of under a day.
Who is on either side of the marketplace?
Unilinkr is designed as separate products for separate audiences, sharing one pool of talent and one matching engine.
The look, and why
A deep, confident violet carries the identity across three very different audiences, with a muted lavender-grey doing the quiet work on dark surfaces.
Building a student talent marketplace
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Building a two-sided marketplace of your own?
Tell us how your business actually works and we'll tell you honestly what it takes to build - the matching, the multi-sided roles, the speed. No deck, no pitch.