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START Coach is the AI career coach inside the START app. It works from your target role, your assessment results and your profile, so its advice is about you: which roles you already fit, what to practise next, how to sharpen your resume and how to answer the questions an interviewer will ask.

See it in action

See it in action

Coach chat, Resume Optimizer and Interview Simulator on a demo account, first on the web and then in the START mobile app.

Three START Coach tools on a demo account: Coach chat answers from the account's own results and turns the advice into a plan for the week, Resume Optimizer gives a resume an ATS score for a pasted job, and Interview Simulator asks a question for the target role and scores the answer with what worked and what to improve. The same tools then appear in the START mobile app.

With you at every step

START Coach isn't a separate chatbot you have to remember to open. It works inside START, from your first practice question to the week you apply, and each time it starts from your own results. So what it tells you is about you, not about an average job seeker.

  1. Missed a question? START Coach explains it: what your answer shows, the key idea behind the right one and what to practise next.

  2. After every assessment it reads your answers and sets out your strengths, what to improve and which skill areas to revisit.

  3. Every week it sums up how you're doing: what moved, where you're strong, where to improve and the one priority for the week ahead.

  4. Your weekly recap puts recommended actions on your board, so you always know what to do next.

  5. It picks career events for you and explains why each one fits.

  6. Coach chat, Role Matcher, Growth Roadmap, Resume Optimizer and Interview Simulator, all working from the same results. Each one is below.

  7. It drafts a resume or cover letter for a job posting, then checks how well your cover letter fits the role.

Five ways START Coach helps

Every tool starts from your own START results. Use one when you need it, or work through them as you get closer to the job you want.

Coach chat

Chat with a coach that knows your profile and your assessment results. Ask what to focus on this month, how to move into a new field or how to prepare for a specific job, and get a plan you can act on.

  • Advice built on your own results
  • A clear next step for this week

Use it when

  • You're not sure what to work on first this month.
  • You're moving into a new field and want to know where to start.
  • You have a job in mind and want a plan for the week.
A demo account starts a coach chat for a Business Development Specialist role, asks what to focus on to land a first business development job and gets advice built on its own results, then asks for a plan and gets one for each day of the week. In the START mobile app, a question to the coach gets advice built on the same results.

Role Matcher

See the roles you already fit, ranked from your assessment results and profile, and what each one still needs from you.

  • Best-fit roles from your results
  • The skills each role needs

Use it when

  • You're not sure which roles to apply for.
  • You want to see which roles your results already support before you change direction.
With one click, Role Matcher ranks the best-fit roles for a demo account from its assessment results and profile, each with a fit score, the reasons behind the match and the gaps still to close, then links to the next tool. Its matches then appear in the START mobile app.

Growth Roadmap

Pick a role and get a step-by-step plan that closes the gap between where you are and what the role needs, starting with the skills that matter most.

  • A step-by-step skill plan
  • Built from your own gaps

Use it when

  • You've picked a target role and want a plan to close the gaps.
  • You want to know which skills to work on first.
A demo account picks a Business Development Specialist role and six weeks, and Growth Roadmap builds a week-by-week plan to close its skill gaps, with learn, build, practise and review tasks in each week. A roadmap for the same role then appears in the START mobile app.

Resume Optimizer

Tailor your resume to a role. START Coach scores it the way applicant tracking systems read it, lists the keywords you are missing and suggests stronger bullet points.

  • An ATS score for the role
  • Missing keywords and better bullets

Use it when

  • You're about to apply and want your resume to match the job posting.
  • You want to know which keywords an applicant tracking system will look for.
  • Your resume isn't getting replies and you want to know what to fix first.
Resume Optimizer scans a demo resume against a pasted job description: an ATS score, a breakdown into hard skills, soft skills, keyword alignment and ATS readability, the fixes to make first and the keywords to add. The same scan then runs in the START mobile app.

Interview Simulator

Practise with questions written for the role you want. Answer each one, get feedback on what worked and what was missing, and walk into the real interview with your stories ready.

  • Questions for your target role
  • Feedback on every answer

Use it when

  • You have an interview coming up for a specific role.
  • You want feedback on your answers before it counts.
  • You want an example of a stronger answer to learn from.
Interview Simulator asks a demo account a question for a Business Development Specialist role, takes a typed answer and scores it as soon as it is sent, with what worked, what to improve next, an example of a stronger answer and what to practise next. The same practice then runs in the START mobile app.

Built on your START results

A general chatbot starts from a blank page. START Coach starts from what START already knows about you: the role you are working toward, your scores and gaps from real assessments, and the profile documents you choose to share. That is why its advice names the skills to practise next.

Your data, your choice

You decide what START Coach can use, and you can change it any time in your settings. Your information is not used to train the AI models behind it. For an institution, we can run START Coach through the cloud and AI provider the institution already approves, to meet its own data and retention requirements.

Frequently asked questions

What is START Coach?

START Coach is the AI career coach in the START app. It brings together a coach chat, Role Matcher, Growth Roadmap, Resume Optimizer and Interview Simulator, and it works from your target role, your assessment results and your profile. See START Coach.

Is START free?

You can start for free. Create an account and take assessments at no cost to see where you stand. When you want more, paid plans give you fuller access to the platform, and AI-powered tools such as resume tailoring, interview practice and career coaching run on credits. Colleges and employers get enterprise plans quoted per program, so contact us. Self Check background checks are paid directly to Canpro Technologies.

Does START use AI on my data?

Only if you turn AI features on. If you do, the information needed for your recommendations is processed by an AI service in the United States and isn't used to train its models. Our privacy policy names the services we use. You can turn AI features off any time in your settings. Under-18s need a parent or guardian's permission for AI features.

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