Career Confidence Check
Do you know how confident your students feel?
Understand how prepared students feel about what comes next—and where additional support could make a difference.
How Certyz works
From a few questions to a clearer picture of what comes next.
Certyz helps students explore careers that fit their profile, understand the current market around those careers and identify useful next steps. Schools gain aggregated insight from participating students.
One journey, four clear stages.
The student experience and school insight are connected, but they serve different purposes.
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Students answer a few questions
Students tell Certyz about their interests, favourite subjects, preferred activities, intended routes, region and current career confidence.
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They receive a personalised report
Certyz recommends careers worth exploring and separates personal fit from current market opportunity so students can understand both.
03
They explore the evidence
Students can compare vacancies, salary signals, entry-level opportunity, graduate context and possible routes into different careers.
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Schools see the bigger picture
Participating responses contribute to aggregated insight about career interests, intended routes, confidence and pathway themes across the cohort.
See the journey in action.
Follow the experience from a student completing the assessment through to the aggregated insight their school receives.
The challenge
Confidence is easy to ask about. Harder to understand at scale.
A single conversation cannot always reveal the shared picture across a year group or whole school.
Step one
Students complete the check.
They rate their confidence and complete a short assessment covering interests, subjects, preferred routes and career clarity.
How confident do you feel about your next steps?
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Personal for every student
Personalised guidance for every student.
Your Future Pathway Report
Personalised career guidance
Personal Match
88
Opportunity
76
Career pathways
Explore matches
Next steps
Build your plan
Anonymous by design
Patterns, not pupils.
The school sees combined insight—not a list of individual student answers.
No accountsStudents participate without personal accounts.
No named resultsIndividual answers are not shown to staff.
Shared patternsResults become useful cohort insight.
Protected groupsSmall groups can be hidden for privacy.
Example school summary
See whether confidence is changing.
186
Students taking part
3.2
Confidence before / 5
3.8
Confidence after / 5
68%
Reported higher confidence
Illustrative example data · Riverside Academy
From insight to action
Know where to focus next.
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Prioritise supportIdentify year groups with lower confidence.
2
Plan encountersConnect employer activity with student interests.
3
Broaden awarenessShow the full range of education and training routes.
Free 12-week school pilot
Run a Career Confidence Check at your school.
Agree a student cohort, give every participant a personalised report and receive your anonymous school summary.
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Updated daily
An Opportunity Score that moves with the labour market.
Certyz scores each career out of 100 using current vacancy demand and the number of graduates entering the field. In future, anonymised student-interest data will add another view of where potential supply and demand may be heading.
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Current vacancies
Advertised roles provide a current signal of employer demand, including how opportunity differs between UK regions.
02
Graduate supply
Graduate numbers help show how many people may be entering a field and where competition for available roles could be higher.
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Student interest
As participation grows, anonymised interest data can add an early view of how many students are considering the same career.
A score of 70 or above indicates a stronger current opportunity signal. Below 70, students should look more carefully at competition, location, entry routes and related careers rather than treating the score as a reason to rule a career in or out.
The data is refreshed daily, so a score can rise or fall as market conditions change. It provides current context, not a prediction of an individual student's future success.
For students
A report that turns uncertainty into useful next steps.
The assessment does not decide a student's future. It gives them an evidence-based starting point for researching careers, comparing routes and having better conversations.
See what the full report includesPersonal Match
88
How closely the career aligns with the student's interests, subjects, activities and stated goals.
Opportunity
82
Current market context around the career, including vacancy, salary and regional signals.
Current opportunities in your region
Regional vacancies
Current advertised demand in the student's selected region.
Advertised salary
Current salary signals where reliable advertised data is available.
Illustrative example. Scores and market evidence depend on the student's answers, career, region and current available data.
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Personalised career matches
Recommendations shaped by interests, subjects, preferred activities, intended routes and current career goals.
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Fit and opportunity kept separate
Personal Match explains how closely a career aligns with the student. Opportunity looks at the current market around that career.
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Regional labour-market context
Vacancy and salary evidence helps students understand how opportunities differ in their selected UK region.
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Entry-level opportunity
Students can see vacancy levels across careers that typically provide an entry route into the wider field.
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Routes into each career
University, college, apprenticeship and work-based routes can be explored together where relevant.
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Practical next steps
Reports finish with useful areas to research and questions students can take into guidance conversations.
From one student to the wider picture
Better careers conversations start with better evidence.
Each student receives guidance for themselves. As more students take part, schools can begin to see the patterns emerging across the cohort and use those patterns to support future careers conversations.
For schools and colleges
See the bigger picture without exposing individual students.
Certyz brings assessment participation, student aspirations and labour-market evidence together so careers teams can see patterns and identify where further guidance may be useful.
Assessment participation and engagement
Career interests across the cohort
Career clarity and confidence patterns
Preferred education and training routes
Confidence before and after the report
Year-group and cohort comparisons
Regional vacancy and salary evidence
Career and pathway themes emerging across participating students
School insight is aggregated. Individual assessment answers are not displayed to school staff.
School insight preview
Cohort overview
Aggregated insight
Responses
Live
Participation updates as students complete the assessment.
Average confidence
1–5
Compare reported confidence across participating cohorts.
Exploring several optionsCommon pattern
Has a specific careerCareer clarity
Still unsureSupport opportunity
Compare cohorts
Explore participation, confidence, interests and intended routes across different groups.
Explore live demand
Compare current vacancies and salary signals across UK regions.
Give your school time to see meaningful results.
Run Certyz with your students for 12 weeks. Students receive personalised reports while your school starts to build an aggregated picture of confidence, interests and intended routes.
No credit card and no automatic renewal.