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A simulated work week. Not another course.

A request arrives, you work it, and you produce something a recruiter can actually read. Simulated work - it does not represent employment.

36simulated work weeks
5-dayreal work rhythm
100%free, forever
Simulated, always labelled
Illustrative example
Simulated week · Day 1 of 5
P1 · Incident

Checkout total is wrong when a discount code is applied

"A customer applied SAVE10 and the total didn't drop. We ship tomorrow - can you confirm and pin down exactly when it happens?"

Your task

Reproduce it, isolate the condition, file a bug a developer can fix without asking you a single question.

2 more tickets in today's queue
36Simulated Work Weeks
196Producible Artifacts
16Role Categories
100%Free, Always Labelled
36 work weeks, 16 role categories

Pick a role. Work the week.

Every category below runs on a real Job Ready course's own simulation week, already built - pick a role and you go straight into the Lab, no course first.

Security5 roles
IT Support4 roles
AI3 roles
Data3 roles
Compliance3 roles
Cloud3 roles
How a session actually works

Five days. A real work rhythm.

Every simulated week follows this shape, whichever role you pick.

Day 1

The request arrives

A real ticket lands in your queue - a bug, an incident, a build. The same shape as the job, not a quiz about it.

Day 2

You work it

Reproduce it, investigate it, write it up - whatever the role actually does when this happens.

Day 3

Priorities collide

A second request lands before the first is done. Judgement, not just execution.

Day 4

You produce something real

A bug report, a test plan, an incident writeup - the kind of artifact a recruiter can actually read.

Day 5

The retro

What shipped, what didn't, and what the week actually proved you can do.

What you leave with

A record you can actually share.

  • A verifiable Experience Passport. A public link anyone can open to check the simulated hours, tasks and artifacts you produced - labelled simulated, every time.
  • Real artifacts, not just a badge. The tickets you worked leave behind something a recruiter can actually read, the same artifacts a Job Ready course produces.
  • Interview stories from your own work. “Tell me about a time when”, answered from a week you actually worked, not one you rehearsed.

Every passport says, plainly, that the work is simulated. It is never presented as employment.

Illustrative example
Experience Passport
Alex Rivera · QA / Testing
Simulated work, verified by CertClue
14
Hours
9
Tasks
3
Artifacts
Illustrative example. Every real passport carries a public verification link.
Who it's for

Built for proof, not promises

We do not post reviews from people who do not exist. Here is honestly who this is built for.

I want proof I can handle the job, before I ever apply.

Work a real week's worth of tickets and see exactly where your judgement holds up.

The interview prepper
Applying soon

Anyone can claim skills on a resume. I want something checkable.

A passport with a public verification link, not just another line of text.

The skeptic
Wants proof, not a promise

I know the theory. I've never actually done the job.

The course teaches the role. The Lab is where you find out if you can do it under pressure.

The career switcher
Coming from another field

Questions people actually ask

No, and we say so everywhere it matters, including inside the product itself. This is simulated work: real tasks, real judgement, a real record of what you did and how long it took - but it is not employment and is never presented as such. What it gives you is proof of judgement you can point to, which is different from a job.

Every Experience Lab session is built on a real Job Ready course - the Lab is that course's own live-simulation week, worked for real rather than read about. A course teaches the role; the Lab is where you do it.

No. Pick a role and you have real work in front of you in about ten seconds. The course sits alongside it if you want the fundamentals first, and starting a session unlocks that module of it automatically.

An Experience Passport: a record of the simulated hours, tasks and artifacts you produced, with a public verification link anyone can check. It states plainly, every time, that the work was simulated.

Yes, the same as every other part of CertClue.

Simulated, and labelledEvery screen and the Passport itself say the work is simulated. It is never presented as employment.
Fictional workplacesEvery company, team, project and dataset in a simulation is invented for it.
Assessed, not self-reportedDeliverables are scored server-side against a rubric, and simulated hours are capped against each task's published estimate.
Free, no paywallEvery simulation and the Passport are free, the same as the rest of CertClue.

Pick a role. Work the week.

Free, no credit card, and real work in front of you in about ten seconds.

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