Self-Direct your Career.

Navigating career change is hard - especially as work is changing so fast.

The best person to decide how to change careers, is you. We provide the system, you design the plan.

Your Personal Career Planning System.

Built on 10 years of behavioural data, and designed by a world-leading Careers Strategist – Actvo®  is an Ai-enabled personal career guide, for ambitious people who want clarity, a clear direction and to activate progress.

Understand your Talent

People get hired and promoted not just because of their skills & experience - but because they can clearly communicate their value.

Create a personal story that helps you communicate & demonstrate your capability.

  • Includes:  Values Card Sort, Personality Test, Skills Stack, Learned Experiences, Needs Hierarchy + more.

  • Interactive Guided Activities

  • Personal Insights Dynamically Revealed

  • Discover your unique ‘SuperPower’

  • 1-page shareable ‘Story’ to share with Manager or Recruiter

  • Guided by ACE® Career Coach

Grow on the Job

Staying relevant at work requires continuous skill development and new experiences. Actvo helps you self-direct your learning - so you can grow in a way that fits how you actually learn.

We help you get career clarity, and build your own learning & development plans.

  • Select Challenges holding your Performance back

  • Create Personal Learning Pathways

  • Choose Learning Resources to suit you

  • Calendar your Activities automatically

  • Accountability ‘Nudging’

  • Shareable Plan for Manager approval

  • Demonstrate learning effort to support your Performance Review.

Decide on your Career Pathway

There are so many options for how to career pivot – become a leader, work on projects, be a founder or a creator. Having career clarity though is hard, without a personal career roadmap. It's often hard to visualise options without a good process.

We’ll show you how to achieve a mid-career change that aligns with your personal style, experience & needs.

  • Craft your Vision Statement

  • Create a Needs Hierarchy

  • Get Matched to 12 Career Pathways

  • Identify the Pathway that best suits your Skills, Experience & Needs

  • Get Matched to Jobs and Projects you're ready for

  • Reveal Skill & Experience Gaps to work on

  • Access world-leading Learning Resources tailored for you

  • Get Progression & Promotion ready - know how to communicate what you want.

Prepare for Future Jobs & Projects

We match your preferences and experience to roles and projects you’re ready for next - making a career transition internally - or externally easier. We show you options for projects or jobs you may not have previously considered - so you can have career transition clarity, and a plan that works.

Get promotion ready with roles designed just for you.

  • Personalised Learning Resources that include:  research projects,  skills training, strength building activites, work experience projects,  podcasts & webinars.

  • Auto matching to Jobs & Projects your suited to

  • Dynamic updating of Matched Jobs based on preferences

  • Personally Designed Jobs / Projects to suit your needs & experience

  • Develop Learning Pathways to close skill & experience gaps

  • Shareable Plans for Internal Promotion

Career Coach in your pocket

ACE® is a highly trained GPT designed solely to support your career journey.  Unlike Chat-GPT it’s private, pre-prompted, and built on a world-class career planning process.

Access a trusted world-class career coach, without the cost or hassle.

  • Trained in 10 years of Behavioural Science & Data

  • Private & Secure - no personal data shared

  • Available 24/7 on desktop or mobile

  • Not integrated with any internal HR or productivity systems.

  • Trained to coach in an 'eclectic directive' style by a world-leading career strategist

  • Uses all your insights from Actvo® to support you in your working day.

Take a look inside Actvo

Your Personal Career Coach - ACE®

ACE® is a highly trained GPT designed solely to support your career journey.  Unlike Chat-GPT it’s private, and is pre-prompted - so you benefit from a world-class career planning process.

Access a world-class career coach, without the cost or hassle. 


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Get Started Today

We have packages for Individuals & Teams - priced flexibly to help make it easy to support you or your team get started fast, without high cost or integration.
Monthly Yearly Save 15%
Individuals

FREE

$0$0/year
  • Personal Career Coach - ACE®
  • Private, Personalised Planning Space
  • Co-Authored Story
  • Print/Share Function
  • Admin Reporting Dashboard
  • Team Onboarding
  • Personalised Support
  • Behavioural Insights
  • Culture Change Recommendations
  • Organizational Design Recommendations
Individuals

Pro

$5.99$59.99/month/year
  • Personal Career Coach - ACE®
  • Private, Personalised Planning Space
  • Co-Authored Story
  • Personal Learning Plans
  • Career Pathway Matching
  • Job & Project Matching
  • Tailored Learning Resources
  • Auto-Calendaring of Activities
  • Print/Share Function
  • Admin Reporting Dashboard
  • Team Onboarding
  • Personalised Support
  • Behavioural Insights
  • Culture Change Recommendations
  • Organizational Design Recommendations
Teams up to 15

Team

$99$999/monthyear
  • Personal Career Coach - ACE®
  • Private, Personalised Planning Space
  • Co-Authored Story
  • Prompted Career Challenges
  • Personal Learning Plans
  • Career Pathway Matching
  • Job & Project Matching
  • Tailored Learning Resources
  • Auto-Calendaring of Activities
  • Print/Share Function
  • Admin Reporting Dashboard
  • Team Onboarding
  • Personalised Support
  • Behavioural Insights
  • Culture Change Recommendations
  • Organizational Design Recommendations
Teams up to 50

Business

$399$3,999/month/year
  • Personal Career Coach - ACE®
  • Private, Personalised Planning Space
  • Co-Authored Story
  • Prompted Career Challenges
  • Personal Learning Plans
  • Career Pathway Matching
  • Job & Project Matching
  • Tailored Learning Resources
  • Auto-Calendaring of Activities
  • Print/Share Function
  • Admin Reporting Dashboard
  • Team Onboarding
  • Personalised Support
  • Behavioural Insights
  • Culture Change Recommendations
  • Organizational Design Recommendations

Enterprise

If you are looking for a enterprise wide solution, partnering, HRIT Integration or White-Label - lets talk.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What are the benefits for users?

Users benefit from having available to them 24/7 an online, personal, career guide to support them with both solving everyday challenges, as well as helping them grow new skills and craft career pathways. This type of technology is ideally suited for introverts, neuro-divergent people or those that prefer to interact with technology vs humans on solving complex personal problems in a private and process-driven way

Is my data safe and secure?

We keep all private & personal data secure and meet global data protection standards of the highest order. No personal data shared on the platform is shared with any other organisation. All reporting is anonymised and permissioned through our T&C's.

How does the technology work?

Actvo comprises a mobile-optimised web-app and cloud-hosted server components, which together utilise state-of-the-art frameworks and services to deliver a powerful, intelligent virtual career management agent experience. Our databases and AI models are hosted in Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure data centres which are built with the latest in security and safety features (complying with the highest industry security and safety standards), guaranteeing availability and privacy of your data. The Actvo system architecture utilises dynamic, modern cloud provisioning and scaling technologies, designed for scalability and resilience, to ensure uninterrupted service even under challenging conditions.

What methodology sits behind the technology and is it proven?

Actvo is an extension of Start Nows proprietary career planning system, pioneered in 2018 by Melissa Jenner. Trained in Human Centred Design & Design your Life at Stanford D-School Melissa designed a methodology for enabling people to self-direct their careers and learn new skills based on the method of “Disover, Design, Act”. This method has since been producticsed through her world-leading masterclass detailing 18 steps to growth, used by 1000s of people world-wide. The methodology has also been taught at AUT and AcademyEX to a range of students, and as an outplacement & career pivoting methodology for large corporations in NZ and offshore.

Personalised career support, for ambitious people.

Actvo® gives you the clarity, tools, and support you need - to lift your performance and progress in your career.

“This programme gives you an instinctive ability to navigate towards your next move. Cutting through context and data to insights - at speed.  Making changing careers, so much more effective”.

Tina Frew
VP Sustainability

“Actvo is a remarkable product - great for validating your direction, and more importantly, giving you the insights you need about your unique value, and revealing options for what career could be next".

Laura Fayerman
Innovation Consultant
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What are the benefits for users?

Users benefit from having available to them 24/7 an online, personal, career guide to support them with both solving everyday challenges, as well as helping them grow new skills and craft career pathways. This type of technology is ideally suited for introverts, neuro-divergent people or those that prefer to interact with technology vs humans on solving complex personal problems in a private and process-driven way

Is my data safe and secure?

We keep all private & personal data secure and meet global data protection standards of the highest order. No personal data shared on the platform is shared with any other organisation. All reporting is anonymised and permissioned through our T&C's.

How does the technology work?

Actvo comprises a mobile-optimised web-app and cloud-hosted server components, which together utilise state-of-the-art frameworks and services to deliver a powerful, intelligent virtual career management agent experience. Our databases and AI models are hosted in Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure data centres which are built with the latest in security and safety features (complying with the highest industry security and safety standards), guaranteeing availability and privacy of your data. The Actvo system architecture utilises dynamic, modern cloud provisioning and scaling technologies, designed for scalability and resilience, to ensure uninterrupted service even under challenging conditions.

What methodology sits behind the technology and is it proven?

Actvo is an extension of Start Nows proprietary career planning system, pioneered in 2018 by Melissa Jenner. Trained in Human Centred Design & Design your Life at Stanford D-School Melissa designed a methodology for enabling people to self-direct their careers and learn new skills based on the method of “Disover, Design, Act”. This method has since been producticsed through her world-leading masterclass detailing 18 steps to growth, used by 1000s of people world-wide. The methodology has also been taught at AUT and AcademyEX to a range of students, and as an outplacement & career pivoting methodology for large corporations in NZ and offshore.