About UKCIP
Career intelligence for real working lives.
Most career support is either a personality test or a pep talk. We built the thing that was missing: a structured, honest record of what you have done, what it is worth, and what to do next — with the reasoning shown.
What we measure
IllustrativeDirection
84%
Evidence
66%
Market
71%
Transferability
52%
Readiness
78%
Five dimensions, calculated deterministically. No hidden model deciding whether you are good enough.
Why we exist
Careers are decided on evidence people never get help to build.
The people who progress are rarely the most capable. They are the ones who can describe what they did, in terms the next role recognises.
Guesswork is expensive
Wrong moves cost years. Most people make them with no structured view of where they stand or what is realistically reachable.
Evidence is the bottleneck
Scale, scope and result — stated plainly — change outcomes more than any amount of confidence coaching.
Judgement still matters
Software cannot tell you whether a move is right for your life. Experienced practitioners can, and we build that in.
Founders
Built by people who have done the work.
Michelle Stokes
Co-founder · Recruitment Lead
30+ years of recruitment experience, covering the recruiter perspective, candidate assessment, CV and application quality, interview preparation and recruitment relationships.
Recruitment practice, application quality and interview preparation
Paul Smeaton CMgr FCMI MIoD
Co-founder · Strategy & Operations Lead
30+ years across operations, management, business strategy, hiring and interviewing, role design and organisational capability.
Employer, strategy, operations and governance
What we believe
Four commitments we design against.
The record belongs to the person
Not to an employer, a programme or us. It is exportable and deletable at any time.
Reasoning must be visible
If we cannot show why a score is what it is, we do not ship the score.
No scoring of people for third parties
We produce no rankings, no selection input and no flight-risk indicators.
Language can improve. Facts cannot.
AI helps you say it better. It never invents what you did.
“The AI improves the language — never the facts.”
7 stages
From discovery to progression
5 dimensions
Measured in every career health score
4 audiences
Members, employers, programmes, recruiters
What we are
- A career intelligence platform with human expertise built in
- A permanent, member-owned career record
- A method you can inspect and challenge
What we are not
- A job board or CV distribution service
- A psychometric or personality product
- A screening tool for employers
Careers deserve better than guesswork.
See the method, then see where you stand.