Careera

Careera
An Acoustic venture — co-founded by Erik Ingvoldstad

Careera started as an assignment. In 2020, while completing his Master's Degree in Digital Management at Hyper Island, Erik was asked to identify a problem worth solving. He landed on recruitment, an industry where everyone involved knows the process is broken and nobody quite agrees on how to fix it. Candidates send CVs into a void. Employers wade through applications that tell them almost nothing about whether someone will actually thrive in a role. The matching problem is real, and most recruitment technology had addressed it by doing the same thing faster rather than doing something fundamentally different. The assignment became a conviction. The conviction became a company.

Careera was built around a single belief: that the best hires are made on fit, not just on credentials. Hard skills and experience matter, but so do personality, working style, ambition, and the specific culture of the team someone is joining. A CV captures almost none of that. Careera was designed to capture all of it.

The candidate experience was built around a mobile app that combined job matching with a personality and skills assessment delivered as an engaging, game-like experience. Rather than asking candidates to fill in forms, Careera asked them questions, presented challenges, and built a rich profile that went well beyond what any CV could convey. The swipe mechanic for job cards made the experience intuitive and low-friction, while the underlying data being generated was anything but simple.

On the employer side, the platform gave hiring managers a dashboard that brought hard skills scores, soft skills ratings, personality profiles, interview scheduling, and candidate progress into a single view. The combined rating system gave recruiters a way to compare candidates on dimensions that actually predict performance, not just experience. The profile visualisation, mapping candidates across axes like Passion, Skills, and Ambition, gave hiring teams a genuinely different way to think about who they were looking for and who they had found.

The product was built to serve both SMEs and enterprise clients, with a SaaS model and tiered pricing that made sophisticated hiring technology accessible to companies that could not justify an in-house talent team.

Careera was co-founded by Erik in 2021 and developed through to 2024, with the full product designed, built, and brought to market through Acoustic. The platform remains live at careera.ai.