Figma has partnered with the campus recruitment network Handshake's AI Skills Studio to launch four tasks: designing and animating an icon set, creating a looping animation, drawing a sticker pack, and turning a mood board into an app wireframe. The tasks are short-term guided projects aimed at helping job seekers practice their AI skills.

On the same day, Handshake announced the launch of AI Skills Studio, which is free for users with student or alumni accounts, currently covering the U.S., Canada, and about 30 European countries, with some schools still in testing. Each task takes about 10 to 45 minutes and can be completed with voice or text coaching using real tools like Gemini, ChatGPT, and Figma. The completed works can be showcased on personal profiles and enter a display area for over 1 million employers. The platform claims to connect over 30 million job seekers, 1,600 institutions, and 1 million employers.

The first batch of tasks was co-developed by Clay, Figma, Gamma, Google, Lovable, Notion, OpenAI, Replit, Salesforce, the University of New Hampshire, and Vercel. Some steps may require third-party paid features, and schools or partners may provide redeemable accounts. All four tasks from Figma focus on visual output, packaging design tool lessons into showcaseable works rather than certificate exams.

The campus recruitment network has written "the ability to create using generative tools" as a new screening signal, allowing employers to view both educational background and task outputs on the same platform. Figma aims to direct student traffic to its canvas, making icons, animations, stickers, and wireframes the default practice items.

In market mechanics, this is a pre-positioning of the recruitment funnel: the buyers are employers looking to view a large volume of works, while the sellers are job platforms completing tasks with partner brands. Funding comes from product collaborations and future recruitment revenue, not tuition fees. Beneficiaries are software companies that can showcase their logos in tasks; those under pressure are design education providers that only offer theoretical courses without clickable works. The event driver is the launch of the studio, not new recruitment season data.

Once the works are on personal profiles, design courses transform from credits into searchable submission attachments.

Source: Public Information