Turn every application into a challenge.
Stop reading résumés. Start seeing the work. MARA takes your job description and turns it into a real test: the same role, but candidates solve it instead of describing it.
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Three steps, zero résumés.
Post the problem
Turn an open role into a challenge: a real problem, a clear deliverable, a fixed deadline.
Talent solves it
Candidates work on the same brief, solo or in small teams. What they deliver is the application.
Choose from the work
Compare results against public evaluation criteria. Decide by what people can do, not by what they write.
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Less screening. More certainty.
Comparable
Same brief, same evaluation criteria. Candidates become truly comparable, with no résumé bias.
Concrete
You assess real work, not a list of keywords. The first interview starts from actual evidence.
Fast
One challenge replaces several screening rounds. You reach the right people sooner, with fewer meetings.
Open
No filters for years of experience or university name. The work puts everyone on equal footing.
It’s not an opinion. It’s a broken market.
applications per role versus 2021: the résumé signal is now buried under volume.
Greenhouse 2025of Fortune 500 companies screen résumés with ATS software before any human reads them.
Jobscan 2025average time-to-hire, rising steadily for four years across ~250,000 hires.
Josh Bersin + AMS 2023The will to change is already there. What’s missing is the tool.
85% of companies say they hire for skills. But fewer than 1 hire in 700 has actually changed.
TestGorilla 2025 · Burning Glass / Harvard 2024What makes a challenge a measure.
A real problem, not an exercise
The output reflects what the person would actually do in the role.
A deliverable defined upfront
Everyone delivers the same kind of thing: results become comparable.
Public evaluation criteria
Scoring is consistent — exactly what half of companies can’t manage on their own.
The same brief for everyone
The comparison is fair. No advantage from the name on the résumé.
The work is the proof
Impossible to fake — while 23% of companies have already hit AI fraud in applications.
65% of companies adopting skills-based hiring report higher-quality candidates. (Employ · Recruiter Nation 2025)
You can do it yourself. But you can’t get reliable data on your own.
Nothing stops you from building a challenge in-house. But 46% of companies say the time and resources to implement one are the top obstacle. MARA removes that obstacle.
The question isn’t whether you can run a challenge. It’s whether you can run it so it produces reliable data — without building the infrastructure from scratch.
The things companies ask first.
To make things clearer, here are the answers to the questions companies ask before getting started.
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