Experience Translator
What do I already bring?
Students identify experience and learn to articulate contribution, achievement, impact, capabilities and wider evidence.
For Universities
Help students understand what they bring — before asking them where they want to go.
Students often have more evidence than they know how to recognise or articulate. OYE helps them understand what they bring and explore where it could take them. It complements careers professionals rather than replacing them, and institutions receive anonymised evaluation data only — never individual student work.
- Tools
- Two connected
- Time
- Cohort-defined
- Reporting
- Aggregate only
Two connected student needs
What do I bring — and where could it take me?
Career Navigator
Where could what I bring take me?
Students explore roles, sectors, organisations, development needs, relevant opportunities and practical next steps.
Useful evidence may already exist in coursework, group projects, dissertations, placements, part-time work, volunteering, societies, community activity, caring responsibilities and wider life experience. OYE helps make that evidence visible without implying that students lack ability.
International by design
Built for different starting points
Talent is everywhere. Access to personalised career guidance is not.
OYE recognises evidence gained through education, employment, volunteering, enterprise, community activity and wider life experience.
We are particularly interested in working with universities, youth development organisations and employability programmes across Africa, alongside partners in other regions, where accessible career-development support can complement existing provision.
What participants leave with
Four outcomes you can point to.
Career direction
Participants explore realistic pathways, employers and qualifications instead of guessing at one perfect job.
A practical roadmap
Every participant leaves with development priorities, next actions and the evidence to collect along the way.
Language they can use
An Evidence Brief turns experiences into wording that works in applications, interviews and reviews.
Evaluation you can report
Anonymised before-and-after confidence, completion and outcome data for funders and internal reporting.
A better starting conversation
From uncertainty to evidence-led exploration.
“I don't know what I'm good at.”
“These are the experiences I've had, this is what I think they demonstrate, and these are the directions I'd like to explore.”
More time for the work only advisers can do
Students can arrive at careers conversations better prepared, allowing careers professionals to focus on deeper guidance, decision-making, individual circumstances, opportunity exploration and development planning.
OYE may support undergraduates, postgraduates, international and first-generation students, widening-participation and mature students, students with limited formal work experience, recent graduates and postgraduate researchers by making existing evidence more visible.
Illustrative Programme Impact Dashboard
Evaluation data ready for your report.
Each configured programme can provide an impact summary covering completion, before-and-after confidence and reported outcomes. Results can be printed, saved as a PDF or exported as anonymised CSV data.
Invited
120
Started
96
Completed
81
Completion
84%
Confidence, before and after
- Recognising achievements4.1 → 7.6
- Explaining contribution3.8 → 7.4
- Using evidence4.0 → 7.9
Reported outcomes
- Identified something overlooked
- Clearer language for applications
- A clear next action
All figures shown above are illustrative. Results are withheld for very small groups where individuals could be identified.
Where it fits
Six places this makes an immediate difference.
Student and graduate employability
Help students recognise and evidence what placements, part-time work, caring and society leadership already demonstrate.
Researcher development
Support researchers to articulate contribution, impact, teaching, service and recognition with credible language.
Career and promotion preparation
Give colleagues the language to make a truthful, specific case for progression, appraisal or an internal move.
Women's leadership
Address under-claiming directly within leadership, sponsorship and talent development programmes.
Founder and accelerator programmes
Help founders describe traction, contribution and credibility without exaggeration, for pitches and applications.
Return-to-work and career transition
Turn interrupted, non-linear and unpaid experience into evidence people can use with confidence.
Sample programmes
Three ready-made shapes.
Each template sets the questions, framing and reporting for a different cohort. We can adapt any of them to your programme.
Employability Evidence Programme
Students, graduates and early career professionals supported by careers, employability or widening participation teams.
See the full programmeCareer and Promotion Evidence Programme
Employees preparing for promotion, appraisal, internal moves, women's leadership programmes, and colleagues returning to work or changing career.
See the full programmeResearcher Evidence and Impact Programme
Doctoral researchers, postdoctoral researchers, early and mid-career academics, and research staff supported by researcher development teams.
See the full programmeHow a pilot runs
Four steps from first call to impact summary.
- 01
Scoping call
We agree the participant group, cohort size, dates and the outcome you need to evidence.
- 02
Programme set-up
You receive a programme code and a ready-made template tailored to your cohort.
- 03
Participants take part
Consent, baseline questions, the Evidence Brief journey, then an opportunity-ready action plan.
- 04
Impact summary
An aggregate Programme Impact Summary you can print, share or export as CSV.
Privacy-first by design
Participants keep their Evidence Brief. Institutions never automatically receive names, personal Evidence Briefs, individual reflections, opportunity cards, action plans or coach notes. Programme reporting is aggregate only, and results are withheld for very small groups where individuals could be identified.
Explore an OYE Student Pilot.
Test OYE with a defined student cohort and explore whether an evidence-first approach can strengthen career confidence, articulation and career exploration. Possible measures include ease of use, evidence recognition, confidence articulating experience, clarity around career possibilities, usefulness of both tools and careers-team feedback.