Skill Search

One in five students know zero people in their target field. Skill Search is the mentor they never had.

Forty-seven percent of online students haven't spoken with anyone in their field about career advancement in the past month. Not because they don't care. Because between 50 and 80 percent of jobs are filled through personal connections, and the students who need those connections most — first-generation, lower-income, underrepresented — are the least likely to have them. A biology major sees a data science posting and scrolls past it. She doesn't know that "designed controlled experiments and interpreted statistical results" is what the posting calls "experimental design and data interpretation." She doesn't apply. The employer never sees her. Both lose.

The hidden curriculum of professional navigation — knowing which jobs to target, how to talk about your skills, when to apply — isn't taught in any classroom. Privileged students absorb it at dinner tables and through family networks. Everyone else gets imposter syndrome and a best guess.

Skill Search makes the hidden curriculum visible. In real time. While they browse, not after they give up.

A student finds a job posting. Our Chrome extension reads it, extracts the required skills, compares them against her verified profile, and shows her — right there, right now — what matches and what's missing. Seven of nine skills? Here's the course that closes the gap. That's not career services. That's the conversation her peers are having with connected parents. Democratized, automated, and available to everyone.