<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><ns2:project xmlns:ns1="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api" xmlns:ns2="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/project" xmlns:ns3="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/fund" xmlns:ns4="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/person" xmlns:ns5="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/project/outcome" xmlns:ns6="http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/gtr/api/organisation" ns1:created="2026-06-03T15:52:43Z" ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/projects/140A9EDB-A80F-43D9-AAD0-0699913FE4DA" ns1:id="140A9EDB-A80F-43D9-AAD0-0699913FE4DA"><ns1:links><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/persons/56279FBD-EC92-4FCD-9FE3-0EA4C4AFACAD" ns1:rel="PM_PER"/><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/organisations/AC7D551E-48F5-4EB0-9BFD-B712B8394175" ns1:rel="LEAD_ORG"/><ns1:link ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/organisations/AC7D551E-48F5-4EB0-9BFD-B712B8394175" ns1:rel="PARTICIPANT_ORG"/><ns1:link ns1:end="2021-04-29T23:00:00Z" ns1:href="http://gtr.ukri.org/gtr/api/funds/B32F9600-6B32-4CF1-ABE5-5C020FE078E9" ns1:rel="FUND" ns1:start="2020-11-01T00:00:00Z"/></ns1:links><ns2:identifiers><ns2:identifier ns2:type="RCUK">87834</ns2:identifier></ns2:identifiers><ns2:title>An innovative first-to-market gamified recruitment platform for under 25s, aiming to remove hiring bias and to decrease youth unemployment, while generating a year-5 post-project revenue over &amp;pound;5M.</ns2:title><ns2:status>Closed</ns2:status><ns2:grantCategory>Collaborative R&amp;D</ns2:grantCategory><ns2:leadFunder>Innovate UK</ns2:leadFunder><ns2:abstractText>Founded by Esther O'Callaghan OBE and Piers Collins, Hundo is a UK-based SME that intends to provide a solution to high youth unemployment, which has been further worsened by COVID-19\. Offering backgrounds in youth employment programmes and recruitment, the founders of this project intend to create a fully immersive hiring platform using AI and AR/VR technology to give young job-seekers better access to career opportunities. In addition to addressing youth unemployment, this innovation should further address the wider unemployment challenges posed by COVID-19, and generate a year-5 post-project revenue of over &amp;pound;5M.</ns2:abstractText></ns2:project>