We're pleased to introduce Assess, a new AI-powered career matching tool coming to Learning Labs on 17 June for you and your team to explore.
What is Assess?
Assess is designed to help users begin exploring careers that genuinely suit them. Rather than prescribing a path or telling users what they should do, Assess surfaces a personalised set of career suggestions based on who they are — their interests, skills, values, and workplace preferences — giving them a meaningful starting point for career exploration.
The assessment takes around 25 minutes and feels more like a guided reflection than a test. Users are asked about their interests, experiences, values, and preferences in their own words — no right or wrong answers, just honest responses that help Assess build an accurate picture of who they are. Users can pause and resume at any time.
On completion, users receive a ranked list of career matches drawn from the UK National Careers Service, each with a match score and a plain-language explanation of why it's been suggested. They also receive a skills and evidence summary capturing their interests, strengths, and values — something they can return to and build on over time.
Assess also includes a career exploration space covering 800+ roles across 15 sectors, with detail on pay, day-to-day tasks, entry routes, and progression — available to browse whether or not a user has completed the assessment.
Why Learning Labs?
Assess is coming to Learning Labs because we want to develop it with you. This is an early version of the tool, and your feedback as an admin — and from any colleagues you involve in testing — will directly shape the direction we take it.
Assess will not be visible to your users until we move the tool into production.
Please also note that this initial version of Assess is UK-specific, with career data drawn from the UK National Careers Service. Region-specific versions are planned and will follow when the tool moves into production.
We're particularly keen to understand how the assessment experience feels to go through, how useful and relevant the career matches seem, and where you see the most potential for your institution.
Getting started
From 17 June, Assess will be accessible via the Learning Labs section of the platform. If you’ve already signed up to Learning Labs, the link will be readily available. If not, simply sign up to access it.
We'd encourage you to work through the assessment yourselves so you can speak to the experience firsthand when the tool goes live for users.
At the bottom of the Assess page, you'll find a thumbs up / thumbs down button. Use this to log your feedback on the tool directly to us — we'll be reviewing all responses as we develop Assess further.
If you have any additional feedback or questions, please share them with your Custom Success Manager. We're keen to hear what you think.
For a full walkthrough of Assess and guidance on how to get the most out of it, visit our product enablement article.