Readiness self-assessment

A self-report, not an assessment. The readiness self-assessment shows how you rate your own career skills. It gives no overall score and never compares you with others.

What the self-assessment covers

8 competencies with 5 statements each:

• self-awareness and career goals;
• job search;
• communication;
• teamwork;
• critical thinking and problem solving;
• digital skills;
• professionalism and self-management;
• learning and adaptability.

You answer every statement on a 5-point scale from "strongly disagree" to "strongly agree". The Platform team wrote the statements; a career guidance expert reviews them.

How the result is computed

1. An answer gives 1 to 5 points. Every competency has at least one "reversed" statement (for example, "I find it hard to explain what I want to do after my studies"): its points are 6 minus the answer. This makes the result depend less on a habit of agreeing.
2. A competency's score is the mean of its five statements, from 1.0 to 5.0.
3. The score falls into one of three bands:
   • getting started — from 1.0 to 2.6;
   • developing — from 2.6 to 3.8;
   • confident — from 3.8 to 5.0.
4. Every band of every competency comes with a tip — a next step you can take on the Platform.

There is no overall number: eight bands cannot honestly be reduced to one score. The self-assessment is not part of the career readiness score and does not affect vacancy matching.

Who sees the result

• Only you see your personal result. Employers do not see it.
• You can take the self-assessment at most once every 90 days, so you can see how the result changes.

Diagnostics at a university

• A career centre may invite one group of students — at least 10 people, for example one field's graduating class — to the self-assessment. Taking part is voluntary.
• The university sees only the group's aggregate results: the median of each competency and the share of each band. Groups of fewer than 10 people are hidden and numbers are rounded to 5 — the same rules as for all statistics for universities.
• The university never sees your personal answers or bands, even with your consent to that university seeing your data.

Limitations

• A self-assessment depends on how strictly a person rates themselves: two equally prepared students may answer differently.
• We will check the reliability of the scales (how consistent the statements within a competency are) on the pilot's answers; the expert may refine the band limits.
• Groups that answered in different languages can be compared only after native speakers have reviewed the translations.