How to use the Career Readiness Report in an advising conversation.
A practical guide for career center advisors. Written to be printed and used, not marketed with. Six sections; 20 minutes to read.
What you receive
When a student shares their Career Readiness Report with you, they send a link. Opening the link shows a read-only snapshot of their growth on the platform as of the moment they created the link. There is no login. There is no dashboard.
Each report has ten sections. In order, they are: Career Chapter, Coach’s First Impression, Current State of You, Career Momentum, Growth Plan priorities, Top Strengths and Growth Opportunities, Recurring Themes, Recent Focus history, Key Accomplishments, and a Recommended focus for the next 90 days. A report can be read top to bottom in about five minutes.
Reports do not include: the student’s coaching conversations, their weekly reflections in full, their private notes, or any messages between the student and the platform. Those remain private to the member.
How to interpret each section
Career Chapter. This is the season of professional life the student is in — Career Explorer, Emerging Leader, Career Transition, and so on. It is one of eight equally respected chapters, and it changes over time as their profile evolves. Read this first; it sets the tone of everything else.
Coach’s First Impression. The platform’s honest read of where the student is when they first arrived. It is usually written months before the report was generated. Use it as a baseline to see how far they’ve traveled.
Current State of You. A short, narrative paragraph in the second person — a mentor’s read of where the student is right now. This is the section most students will have re-read many times. Ask about what surprised them.
Career Momentum. A composite score of the student’s learning velocity, career optionality, and role energy over time. Trend matters more than magnitude. A student going from 42 to 64 is showing real growth even if the current number seems modest.
Growth Plan priorities. The specific priorities the student is working on. These are member-chosen. Ask which one they’re finding hardest.
Strengths & Growth Opportunities. Written from the student’s own profile and coach interactions. Growth opportunities are not weaknesses; they are the places the student has signaled interest in improving.
Recurring Themes. Patterns the coach has surfaced across multiple weekly reviews. If “delegation” shows up in 3 of the last 4 reviews, it’s a real theme in their life this month.
Focus history. The last three specific “Today’s Focus” prompts the platform gave the student. This is the closest you’ll get to seeing the day-to-day of their work on the platform.
Key Accomplishments. Milestones the student chose to log — a first interview, a promotion, a certification, a difficult conversation. Members opt in to each entry.
Recommended next 90 days. A short prose paragraph the platform wrote for this student, in the voice of their Career Chapter. It’s a starting point for the next conversation, not a prescription.
Suggested coaching questions
These questions are written to be asked with the report open in front of you. They’re grouped by section so an advisor can move through a 45-minute conversation without a script.
- • Does this chapter feel accurate to where you actually are?
- • What did you almost pick instead?
- • How would you describe your chapter to someone who’s never heard the term?
- • What in this paragraph felt true?
- • What felt off — even a little?
- • If a friend had read this, what would they say back to you?
- • Which of these are you actually making progress on?
- • Which one is quietly stuck?
- • If you had to drop one for the next six weeks, which one would it be?
- • What do you notice about the themes that keep repeating?
- • Are there patterns you were surprised the platform picked up?
- • What would you like to be true here in three months?
- • Which of these three things feels most within reach?
- • Which one feels the most avoided?
- • What’s one specific action you could take this week toward it?
Using the report in a real conversation
The report is not the conversation. It is the material the conversation draws on. A 30- to 45-minute advising session that goes well usually looks like:
- 5 minutes: Ask the student to describe where they’re at in their own words, before you open the report together.
- 15 minutes: Read the report side-by-side. Pause on the two or three sections that surprised either of you. Use the coaching questions above.
- 10 minutes: Focus on the “Recommended 90 days” section. Ask what feels within reach and what feels avoided.
- 5 minutes: Agree on one concrete action the student will take before the next conversation. Ask them to log it as an outcome on the platform when they do it.
Two things to avoid: reading the report aloud (it takes over the conversation) and arguing with it (if a section feels wrong, treat that as data about how the student sees themselves, not as an error to correct).
How members maintain control over sharing
Every share link is created by the student themselves. It carries a one-time-generated token and expires by default in 90 days. The student can revoke the link at any time from their Privacy Dashboard, which invalidates it instantly.
If a student sends you a link and it stops working, they revoked it. That is their prerogative and does not indicate anything about your relationship with them. If you need continued access, ask them for a new link.
You will not receive nudges, updates, or notifications about your students on the platform. There is no advisor login. The only way to read a report is with a link the student chose to share.
One-page reminder to keep at your desk
- • Skim the report top to bottom (5 minutes).
- • Note two sections that surprise you.
- • Note one thing you’d like to hear the student say out loud.
- • Start with their words, not the report.
- • Read together, not aloud.
- • Use one question per section, not all of them.
- • End with one concrete action for the next 7 days.
- • Encourage the student to log the outcome when they complete it.
- • Ask for a new share link at the next check-in.
- • Trust the platform to keep the momentum between sessions.
This guide is designed to be printed and used. If you find yourself doing something with the Career Readiness Report that isn’t covered here, tell us — the next version of the guide will include it.