User manual & FAQ
How to turn what you already do — work, study, hobbies, caring, sport, gaming, volunteering — into a professional skills profile, a career readiness score and a report you can hand to an employer.
No skill without evidence. Every score traces back to something you said.
Before you start
You need about 35–50 minutes, somewhere quiet, and honest answers. You do not need a CV, a job history, or any paid experience.
1. The eight steps
Career Insights interviews you about your life, extracts the transferable skills hidden in your answers, rates how ready you are for real careers, and tells you exactly what is missing. You can leave at any point and come back — your session is saved in this browser.
| # | Step | What you do | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Profile | Who you are, your goal, and how much time you have to learn | 5 min |
| 2 | Snapshot | Readiness checklist before the interview unlocks | 1 min |
| 3 | Interview | Two adaptive interviews — career, and “About me” | 25 min |
| 4 | Skills & evidence | Review each skill, its score and the words behind it | 6 min |
| 5 | Careers | Readiness scores per role, plus the gaps to close | 5 min |
| 6 | Learning plan | Gaps turned into ordered actions at your weekly hours | 4 min |
| 7 | AI coach | Ask questions about your own profile and next steps | Optional |
| 8 | Report | Export the full profile as PDF, Word or HTML | 2 min |
2. Step 1 — Profile
The profile screen asks who you are and what you want, not what you have done. Fill in your name, stage, location, and the goal in your own words — “my own food stall” is a perfectly good answer. Then set how much time you have available for learning each week. That single choice shapes the whole learning plan later, so answer it realistically rather than ambitiously.
Leave any field blank and the app still works, but the careers it suggests will be broader and less useful. If you have a CV or a study record, add it — it becomes extra evidence, never a replacement for the interview.
3. Step 2 — Snapshot and readiness check
Before the interview opens, the app shows a short checklist: quiet space, 35 minutes, honest answers, examples ready. The “Begin the interview” button stays dimmed until you have ticked all of them. This is deliberate — a rushed interview produces a thin profile, and a thin profile produces careers you will not recognise as yours.
4. Step 3 — The interview
There are two interviews. The career interview covers work and study. The “About me” interview covers everything else — hobbies, DIY, caring for family, sport, gaming and volunteering. If you have never been paid for a day's work, the second one is where your entire profile comes from, and it counts just as much.
Questions adapt as you answer. Type your response, or press “Speak your answer” and talk instead; the app transcribes it. As you answer, skills appear beside the question with the phrase that triggered them, so you can see the reasoning while it happens.
How to answer well
- Give the specific instance, not the general habit — “I cooked for 22 people at my cousin's party and came in under $80” beats “I like cooking”.
- Include numbers wherever they exist: people, dollars, hours, how often.
- Say what you decided, not only what happened. Decisions are what the app scores.
- Mention what went wrong and what you changed. Recovery is evidence.
5. Step 4 — Skills & evidence
Each skill appears with a confidence score and a category. Open one and you get its description plus a “Why identified” line quoting the answers behind it. Scores are colour-coded: 80% and above is strong, 55–79% is developing, below 55% is emerging.
If a skill is wrong, open it and remove it. If a score looks low and you know you have more examples, go back to the interview and add them — the score follows the evidence, not the other way around. The transferable skills matrix on the same screen shows which industries value each skill.
6. Step 5 — Careers
Careers are ranked by a readiness percentage: how much of that role your current evidence already covers. Each card shows the role, why it was matched, and — most importantly — the gaps. A card reading “78% ready · missing bookkeeping, food safety” is a two-item to-do list, not a rejection.
Star the roles you actually want. Only starred roles feed the learning plan, so ignoring the ones that do not appeal to you is the correct behaviour.
7. Steps 6 and 7 — Learning plan and AI coach
The learning plan turns your gaps into ordered actions, sized to the weekly hours you set in your profile. Each action names the gap it closes and the roles it unlocks. Mark actions complete as you finish them and readiness recalculates.
The AI coach answers questions about your own profile — “what should I do first?”, “how do I explain gaming on an application?”, “which of these courses is worth it?”. It only uses your evidence, so it cannot invent achievements for you.
8. Step 8 — The report
Export as PDF, Word or HTML. Word is the one to pick if you intend to edit before sending. The report contains:
- Executive summary and overall profile score
- Master skills inventory with confidence scores
- Transferable skills matrix and industry mapping
- Evidence register — every claim and its source answer
- Career readiness scores with gap analysis
- Learning recommendations and a dated action plan
9. Your data
Interview answers, skills and reports stay in this browser — there are no accounts and nothing is uploaded to a profile. Delete a session and its evidence goes with it. Reports you export are yours to share; nothing is sent to an employer on your behalf. See the Privacy Notice for detail.