Frequently Asked Questions
Who designed Actvo™ and what experience do they have?
Actvo™ was designed by world leading career planner and coach Melissa Jenner. Trained in Design Thinking & Design your Life Coaching from Stanford University, Melissa has spent the past 8 years working with 1000s of employees individually, in groups, and inside universities to help them plan a career, change jobs, consider new career pathways and learn new skills to enable career change. She is regarded highly as a Career Planner and Strategist, and her experience has underpinned the design of Actvo™.
What is ACE™ and how does it work?
Ace™ is an online careers chat-bot. It’s built on the Microsoft Azure Open-Ai platform, and is trained in career coaching methodology developed by Melissa Jenner. Ace™ is available 24/7 to help people with careers advice - how to solve challenges at work, how to communicate your value for a promotion, how to prepare for a job change, how to plan a job change, and how to build new skills to ensure the job change is successful. Ace™ can also help with tricky on the job challenges such as navigating difficult change, dealing with confronting challenges at work, and general on-the-job coaching.
What are the benefits of using Actvo.me?
Actvo™ is an LXP (Learning Experience Platform). It helps employees do 3 things. 1: Articulate your true value by compiling a personalised ‘story’ (like an added value CV) on your achievements, values, personality, skills and work experience. This also gives you a unique and individual SuperPower of what you are great at as a human . If you want to understand your true value to the workforce, the Story in Actvo™ helps with this. 2. It helps you solve on the job work challenges, acting like an online career coach. You can pick pre-determined challenges that people at work struggle with or create your own. We then help you solve challenges with online personalised learning activities, tailored for you. You can do on-the-job learning, learning by doing, social learning activities, and skill-based learning courses and activities. 3. It predicts the right next job for you. If you want to understand all the options for jobs in your future, our Grow Pathways will show you your future career options. We help you choose a career pathway (way of working) and pick jobs suitable for you. We show you if you have a high skill and experience match to new jobs, and how to close skill & experience gaps with personalised learning pathways.
How does the AI work?
We use AI to do the following things: 1. Co-create with you value statements about what makes you unique in the workplace. 2. Recommend skills and strengths you have from the data you give us (your CV and activities you do on the platform). 3. Recommend from your past work experience, preferences that you have for future work. 4. Recommend from your career goals the right career pathway for you. 4. Recommend jobs that will suit you in the future, based on the information you give us. 5. Recommend personalise learning activities to help you solve work challenges, and close skill and experience gaps. We don’t do anything without your permission. We make recommendations based on your private personal data, and you choose the direction you go in. We give customers personal Agency and user-driven control. We are not an Agent.
How does the subscription work?
We offer online on-the-job coaching and career pathing. We offer a monthly subscription to the full product of $9.95 per month. We recommend you use the product for at least 6 months to get the full benefit of the coaching and planning product. You set up a profile, upload your CV or other relevant background information and then you can access the STORY. Once you have completed your STORY you can access SOLVE (for solving career and job changing challenges) and GROW to receive career pathway and new job recommendations. You can cancel anytime.