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AI career matching that gives every user direction
Knowing what kind of work suits someone is one of the hardest career questions to answer, and difficult to support everyone with. Assess gives users ways to answer that question, with a career fingerprint built from what they said about themselves.
AI career matching is one feature within Assess, the career discovery pillar of Access Careers Centre, alongside Grow (skills development) and Find (job search support).
What the career matching tool includes
The career matching tool gives users direction and the freedom to explore at their own pace.
Matched to over 800 UK career profiles
Each match draws from UK National Career Service data, covering day-to-day tasks, progression routes, salary ranges and career progression, so users get direction that reflects how UK careers actually work.
A career profile they can keep
At the end of the assessment, users receive a career profile they can export and bring to a career conversation. Managers and advisers get context before the conversation starts, not during it.
Explore careers with or without the assessment
Users who aren't ready for the full assessment can browse over 800 roles across 15 sectors and return when they are.
A self-assessment that turns answers into a career matching shortlist
Users complete a self-assessment covering their interests, skills, work values and workplace preferences. It takes around 25 minutes and saves automatically, so they can stop and pick up where they left off.
From their answers, the career matching tool builds a career fingerprint and matches it against over 800 UK career profiles, returning a shortlist of 10 roles with an explanation of why each one fits.
Answers in their own words
As an AI skills assessment tool, the career matching tool uses open-ended questions rather than multiple-choice lists in the interests and skills sections. Users describe their experience in their own words, which gives the AI more to work with when building their career profile.
Multiple-choice formats push people into categories that do not fit them, and the matches suffer for it. Open-ended questions produce a profile that reflects what the user actually said, not a type they were assigned.
Matched to over 800 UK career profiles
Every match draws from the UK National Career Service, the same source careers advisers use. Each profile covers day-to-day tasks, progression routes, salary ranges and related careers.
Because the data is sourced from the UK market, job titles and career structures reflect how careers in the UK actually work. Users get matches that reflect where they are in their career, not where a generic algorithm assumes they should be.
“Access Careers Centre has been a real game changer. To have that on-demand, bite-sized learning across a whole variety of topics - not just corporate skills, but wellbeing, everything - in a fast-paced, dispersed business. For me, it’s all about keeping your workforce happy, healthy and moving forward.”
"I knew the quality and variety of the content available with Access Career Development [now Access Careers Centre] would be a great fit for the business. On a functional level, the breadth of the eLearning library available, and the scalability, means that the career development platform can continue to grow alongside our evolving learning needs of our employees – and I knew this would excite our people."
"We’ve experienced an increase in engagement since investing in Access Career Development [now Access Careers Centre]. The platform is pioneering the way, and it’s also low maintenance and high yielding. We’re really pleased with our decision, and we would recommend the platform to any business looking to enhance its learning and development culture."
“Supporting our colleagues to drive their own career development is a vital strategy for BAXI Heating and working with Access Career Development has enabled us to scale the support you would expect to receive from a career coach via 1-2-1 sessions. Access Career Development was easy to set up and is self-sustaining, so there is no nasty work-load impact on our team, and this enables us to focus on other initiatives to support the career development and satisfaction within BAXI Heating.”
Your questions answered
What is a career matching tool?
A career matching tool helps people identify careers that fit their interests, skills and values. The AI career matching tool within Assess, Access Careers Centre's self-discovery area, matches a user's self-assessment answers against over 800 UK career profiles, so every user leaves with a clear direction and a shortlist they can act on.
How does AI help with career planning?
AI for career planning works by processing what a person shares about their interests, skills, values and preferences, then identifying careers that fit their profile. Once a user completes all five sections, the career matching tool builds a career fingerprint from their answers, normalises the information, and matches it against UK National Career Service data to generate a shortlist of 10 matched roles, each with an explanation of why it was matched.
Which career profiles does the matching use?
The career matching tool uses profiles from the UK National Career Service, covering over 800 roles. Each profile includes day-to-day tasks, progression routes, typical salary ranges, career progression and related careers. Access Careers Centre uses this source because it is built for the UK market.
Is this a psychometric test?
No. The career matching tool is built around reflection, not psychometrics. Most questions ask users to answer in their own words, and there are no right or wrong answers. The purpose is exploration: helping users understand what might suit them, not categorising them into a type.
Can users retake the assessment?
Yes. Users can retake the assessment whenever they want, but retaking resets the profile entirely: previous answers are cleared and the assessment starts fresh. The assessment saves automatically, so users can stop and continue without losing progress.
Can the career profile be shared with an adviser?
Yes. Users can export their career profile and bring it to an appointment. It shows what they said about their skills and interests and which roles were matched for them. Because the user arrives with a shortlist in hand, the conversation focuses on next steps rather than starting from scratch.
Help every user find the right direction
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Access Careers Centre is built across three connected modules. Users can move between them in any order as their needs develop.