Landed Lab is a UK-built daily practice platform helping students, graduates and early-career candidates get hired.
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Landed Lab is an assessment practice platform for students, graduates and early-career professionals. Daily practice of just ten minutes per day prepares them for the assessments that decide who gets hired: situational judgement tests, competency-based interview questions and video interviews.
Beta testing: started July 2026. Full launch January 2027.
Press enquiries: hello@landedlab.com
Web: www.landedlab.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/landedlab
Landed Lab is operated by Orum Consulting Ltd
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Landed Lab is a daily practice platform for students, graduates and early-career professionals. Employers use AI and online assessments to decide who moves forward, but rarely tell applicants why they didn’t get through. Applicants practise for ten minutes a day on 500+ questions and scenarios, and growing, across situational judgement tests, competency-based interview questions and video interviews. Every response gets feedback on where it fell short and what to fix, and development is tracked across the five competencies recruiters assess most: Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, Judgement, Collaboration and Self-Management.
Our purpose.
Landed Lab exists so that capable candidates don’t lose out because they didn’t understand the hiring process.
Our mission.
We give students, graduates and early-career professionals daily practice on realistic hiring assessments — designed by workplace psychologists, with feedback in real time — so they walk into the process confident and prepared.
The problem we are addressing.
UK graduates entering the market each year, competing for a shrinking pool of structured entry-level roles.
HESA, Higher Education Student Statistics 2024/25
Young people aged 16 to 24 not in education, employment or training (NEET). The highest figure in over a decade, driven by unemployment rather than inactivity.
ONS, January to March 2026
Questions and scenarios in the Landed Lab bank, and growing, covering situational judgement, competency-based interview questions, video interviews and psychometric assessments.
Landed Lab, July 2026
The same assessment formats gate internships and placements and graduate schemes, so students meet AI recruitment processes in their second year of university, long before anyone has taught them how they work. Most candidates encounter these methods for the first time when they are being judged by them. There is no obvious place to learn what a strong response looks like, or why a particular answer fell short. Employers don’t often share feedback. Landed Lab closes that gap. Daily practice of just ten minutes per day, with visible progress each week, so that candidates walk into an assessment knowing exactly what to expect.
What Landed Lab does.
- Daily practice of just ten minutes per day. Three questions per session, with feedback on every response.
- Situational judgement tests. Realistic workplace scenarios with feedback on the judgement behind each choice.
- Competency-based interview questions. Structured practice with guidance on structure, evidence and delivery.
- Video interviews. Recorded response exercises that mirror the format employers use at screening stage.
- Psychometric assessments. Workplace preferences and personality questionnaires that measure what employers look for.
- A bank of more than 500 questions and scenarios, and growing, so practice is daily and repeatable rather than a single attempt.
Responses are mapped over time, so candidates can see where their strengths lie and how to improve. We are not aware of another platform that gives early-career candidates this.
This is not a way of gaming assessments. The competencies assessments measure are the competencies employers want, so practising them makes candidates better prepared, not better at faking.
The five competencies.
Critical Thinking
Analysing information objectively, evaluating evidence, and reaching well-reasoned conclusions under pressure.
Problem Solving
Identifying root causes, generating solutions, and implementing an effective course of action with incomplete information.
Judgement
Making sound decisions in ambiguous situations, balancing competing priorities, acting without waiting for certainty.
Collaboration
Working effectively with others, navigating interpersonal dynamics, contributing to group outcomes.
Self-Management
Managing workload under pressure, seeking feedback proactively, taking responsibility for personal development.
How Landed Lab uses AI.
“AI delivers realistic practice and personalised feedback at scale; every response is scored against rubrics designed by our psychometrician and expert team — the AI applies our frameworks; it does not exercise its own judgement.”
Our standing formulation on AI. Please quote it as written.
Partnerships.
Landed Lab works with employers, policy makers and educational settings.
Employers
Better-prepared candidates arriving at assessment, and a clearer view of the five competencies your early-career process is built around. For organisations widening access to entry-level roles.
Policy makers
Practical evidence on how young people experience recruitment, at a point when NEET figures are at their highest in over a decade. Briefings and data available on request.
Educational settings
Universities, colleges, schools and careers services can give students structured assessment practice that sits alongside existing employability provision, including support for internship and placement applications.
Partner with us: landedlab.com/partnerships
Key facts.
- Name
- Landed Lab (singular)
- Legal entity
- Orum Consulting Ltd
- Audience
- Students, graduates and early-career professionals, applying for internships, apprenticeships, graduate schemes and first roles
- Product
- Daily practice of just ten minutes per day. Situational judgement tests, competency-based interview questions, video interviews, psychometric assessments. Bank of 500+ questions and scenarios, and growing
- Competencies
- Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, Judgement, Collaboration, Self-Management
- Founders’ experience
- Assessment work for organisations including PwC, IBM, AstraZeneca, AXA and The Economist Group. These are not partners, clients or endorsers of Landed Lab
- Scoring
- Rubrics designed by Landed Lab’s psychometrician and expert team. AI applies the frameworks; it does not exercise its own judgement
- Partnerships
- Employers, policy makers and educational settings.
www.landedlab.com/partnerships - Newsletter
- The Landing
- Launch
- Beta testing started July 2026. Full launch January 2027
- Website
- www.landedlab.com
- Socials
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/landedlab
Instagram and TikTok: @careerpsychmike (Michael Mauro) - Press contact
- hello@landedlab.com
- Registered address
- Belmont Suite, Paragon Business Park, Chorley New Road, Horwich, Bolton, BL6 6HG
Spokesperson
Background briefing via hello@landedlab.com.
Michael Mauro
Founder, Landed Lab / Workplace Psychology Consultant
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/michaelrmauro
Michael founded Landed Lab after fifteen years designing and running assessments inside large organisations. He has sat on both sides of the process: building the exercises candidates are measured against, and watching capable people fall at the first hurdle because nobody had ever explained how the hurdle worked. He designed the rubrics with psychometrician David Lambiotte and with graduates who had sat the same tests and found them opaque and frustrating.
Michael Mauro BCom, GradDipPsych, BPsychSc(Hons)
Fifteen years’ experience designing and assessing in the workplace. Assessment work for organisations including PwC, IBM, AstraZeneca, AXA and The Economist Group. Member of the Association for Business Psychology and Graduate Member of the British Psychological Society.
GMBPsS MIoL
Quotes for use.
All quotes are attributable to Michael Mauro, Founder of Landed Lab.
“There are over a million young people in this country who are not in work, education or training, and the number is rising because they cannot get hired, not because they are not trying. Meanwhile, the way employers screen them has become more sophisticated and less transparent. That is a gap somebody must close.”
“Assessments are not a mystery to the people who design them. They are only a mystery to the people sitting them. We have spent fifteen years on the employer side of that table. Landed Lab moves that knowledge across to the candidate.”
“Employers, universities and government are all looking at the same problem from different sides. Capable people are being screened out before anyone has met them. We would like to work with all three to improve assessments and hiring across the board.”
Media contacts.
Press enquiries
Partnerships
Spokespeople
Michael Mauro, Founder. David Lambiotte, Head of Assessment Design.
Social
Landed Lab: linkedin.com/company/landedlab
Michael Mauro: linkedin.com/in/michaelrmauro
Michael Mauro on Instagram and TikTok: @careerpsychmike
Available on request
Product screenshots, founder photography and full press releases.
Notes to editors.
- The company name is Landed Lab, singular. Not “Landed Labs”.
- Michael Mauro’s title is Workplace Psychology Consultant.
- On AI, please quote our standing formulation as written rather than paraphrasing it.
- PwC, IBM, AstraZeneca, AXA and The Economist Group are organisations our founders have carried out assessment work for. They are not partners, clients or endorsers of Landed Lab.
- Landed Lab is operated by Orum Consulting Ltd.