Our co-created Story is a simple way to unpack your career, and understand and share your transferable skills & the true value you offer the workforce.
Everyone has a unique talent. That talent is your transferable asset - so being able to communicate it easily & clearly, matters. Once discovered - it gives you confidence to find career fit - by being able to communicate easily to organisations how to map future opportunities more accurately to suit you.
If you’ve had a long career, or worked in one organisation a while, it’s easy to lose track of your skills. Most people can’t conduct a career assessment on themselves easily.
We help you discover & articulate the range of skills you have, find your strengths, and recall the powerful work experiences that might position you well for promotion.
Values drive behaviour. Once you're clear on your values - it makes decisions about your future much easier. Our interactive activity helps you sort through 200 values into a set of personal 'core & growth' values, and advise on how to use them to unlock new ways of working, and grow as a professional.
Over the years, you will have gained a lot of lived work experiences - both good and bad. These produce valueable insights, that can guide you to the type of work you will most enjoy next. We help you unpack your work timeline and reveal the insights, helping you to choose a better future.
Auto CV Reading & Data Inference
Values Card Sort
Personality Profile Test
Skill Mapping into 3 layers
Unpack your Learned Work Experience
Map your Learning Insights & Preferences
Identify your Personal Strengths
AI-Generated ‘SuperPower’
ACE® Career Guidance
Shareable Plan for sharing with Manager/Recruiter
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
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.
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.
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.
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”.
“Actvo is a remarkable product - great for validating your direction, and more importantly, giving you the insights you need about your unique value - revealing options for what career could be next".
