Discover your starting point
Use the Career Finder to reflect on your interests, strengths and preferences. Treat the results as a starting point for exploration, not a fixed label or a decision made for you.
Your journey, explainedProgress that starts
Progress that starts
with where you are.
Skills Compass helps you turn what you learn about yourself into practical action. Explore your interests, practise useful skills, capture what you have done and use it to plan what comes next.
A journey built around youSmall steps. Real progress.
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DiscoverUnderstand your interests and strengths
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DevelopPractise skills through meaningful activity
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DemonstrateReflect on progress and plan what is next
Your path can grow as you do
The process
Three steps from discovery to direction.
You do not need to have everything figured out before you begin. Use each step to learn something, try something and decide what might help you move forward.
Practise through action
Choose activities, take part in sessions and work on real tasks. Build confidence by putting ideas into practice, learning with others and reflecting on what worked.
Capture progress and plan ahead
Add examples of your work and learning to your Skills Compass. Use your progress to identify strengths, areas to develop and useful next steps in learning or work.
Make progress visible
Learning matters. Showing what you can do matters too.
Your Skills Compass brings your development together so progress is easier to reflect on, discuss and build upon.
Know what you are working on
Use the competency areas and activities as a guide for choosing what to practise next.
Keep evidence of your learning
Collect examples such as project work, reflections or completed activities that demonstrate your contribution.
Reflect and get feedback
Use feedback and reflection to understand what went well and what you could try differently.
Connect progress to next steps
Explore related careers, courses and opportunities when you are ready to take your next step.
Made for a shared journey
Support that fits your role.
Skills Compass can support young people as they explore and grow, while giving programme teams a structure for helping that development along.
For young people
Explore strengths, try activities, save useful discoveries and build a record of your own progress at a pace that works for you.
For facilitators
Guide activities, encourage reflection, review submitted evidence and help participants identify realistic next steps.
For programme teams
Organise programme delivery and participant support through the platform's available cohort and administration tools.
A programme in practice
Skills Compass Cymru
Skills Compass Cymru is a Wales-focused pilot built on the Skills Compass platform. It applies the wider approach in a programme context, with attention to accessible participation and relevant learning pathways.
Career and course information shown in the platform should be read alongside its source attribution, including Career Wales, UCAS and 16Personalities where those sources are used.
Your journey can start today.
Explore the Career Finder first, or create an account to keep your progress together.