A Congregation Programme
Career Compass helps you reconnect with your strengths, articulate your value and turn clarity into action.
No account required · Takes 60–90 minutes · Save and return any time
Why Career Compass exists
Your CV lists what you've done, but not who you are. Your LinkedIn profile is technically accurate, but it doesn't quite capture what makes you different. You know you have more to offer — you just haven't found the language for it yet.
Most CVs are a list of jobs and responsibilities. They tell employers where you've been, not what you're genuinely capable of or what makes you worth taking seriously.
Even high-performers struggle to articulate what makes them distinctive. It's not a confidence problem — it's that no one ever teaches you how to tell your own story.
They help you optimise your packaging before you've figured out what's inside the box. Career Compass starts upstream — with who you actually are, not who you think you should present as.
Fifteen years of working with professionals at every level has taught us one consistent truth: the raw material is always there. You just need the right questions, asked in the right order.
Before you begin
Think of Career Compass as a structured moment of deep self-reflection — a chance to step back and really look at your career, your strengths, your blind spots and your instincts.
It's not about who you think you should be. It's about getting clearer on who you actually are — and what that means for where you go next.
Be as candid and specific as you can. If it helps, sense-check your answers with someone who knows you well and won't just tell you what you want to hear. Take your time. Don't overthink it. The more honest your answers, the more useful this will be.
The process
Career Compass is the same process Congregation uses in our one-to-one consulting work — now available to you directly, guided by AI at every step.
19 carefully sequenced questions that take you from your career history all the way through to your values, your character, and your vision for the future.
The most powerful part of the whole process. You'll look back across your entire career — including experiences that pre-date your CV — and capture the moments when you were at your absolute best.
Based on everything you've shared, AI generates a complete set of career assets — each one personal, specific and ready to use or adapt.
What you'll walk away with
A compelling, first-person account of your professional story — your arc, your drivers, your distinctive strengths and the value you bring. The foundation everything else is built on.
Engaging, personal and optimised for LinkedIn — opens with a hook, tells your story with warmth, closes with what you're looking for. Ready to copy and paste.
A punchy, specific 100-word summary for the top of your CV — positioned clearly, zero waffle. The version that actually makes people read on.
A 60-second elevator pitch plus key positioning statements — covering your strengths, approach, track record and what makes you different. Ready for any room.
The natural, conversational version of your story — the language you use when someone asks "so what do you do?" at an event. The one that opens doors rather than closes them.
A beautifully designed downloadable PDF covering your core strengths, values, what makes you unique, ideal roles, ideal organisations, sectors to explore, what makes a role the right fit, and what to avoid.
Who it's for
Career Compass isn't for everyone — it's for professionals at an inflection point. That might look different depending on where you are, but the underlying need is the same: clarity, confidence and the language to match.
Planned or otherwise. You want to approach the next chapter with genuine clarity and confidence, not just an updated CV and crossed fingers. You're ready to do the thinking properly.
You know you're good at what you do, but you struggle to articulate what makes you distinctive. The market doesn't see what your colleagues see — and that gap is costing you.
Your values, your ambitions, your circumstances — or all three. Your current career story no longer fits who you've become, and you need to rewrite it from the ground up.
You've decided that your career deserves proper attention, not just a quick tidy-up. You're willing to be honest with yourself. You're ready to do the work. You're in exactly the right place.
What changes
Not just documents. A genuinely different relationship with your own career story.
A deep, specific understanding of your strengths and what genuinely sets you apart.
The language to tell your story with confidence — in interviews, on paper, and in conversation.
CV, LinkedIn and positioning statements that all tell the same coherent, compelling story.
A clearer sense of where you want to go and what a genuinely right next step looks like.
The kind of insight about yourself that only comes from being asked the right questions in the right order.
The Congregation difference
Congregation was founded in 2008 as a response to disconnected and quick-fix approaches to recruitment and talent — offering something more holistic and long-term in its place.
Career Compass isn't an AI product that got built and then branded. It's the structured process our consultants have used for years in one-to-one sessions with professionals from some of the world's best-known organisations. We've simply made it available to you directly.
The AI coaching and output generation is powerful. But the questions themselves — and the sequence they're asked in — are the product of thousands of real career conversations. That's what makes it different.
Most career tools help you package yourself better. Career Compass helps you understand yourself better first.
— The Congregation approach
Want to go further?
The app gives you the foundations. If you want to go further — to stress-test your narrative with an expert, understand your real market value, and access Congregation's network of contacts — we're here for that too.
Complete all three phases at your own pace. Receive AI coaching throughout and six fully personalised career outputs including your downloadable Career Insights PDF — all free, no account required.
A focused 2-hour session with a Congregation consultant. We'll stress-test your narrative, help you articulate it with confidence, and give you a frank view of where the market is for your skills right now.
Where relevant, we'll tell you who the right people are for you to approach, who in the Congregation network we can introduce you to, and how to navigate the market with the profile you've built.
Career Compass takes around 60–90 minutes. You can save your progress and return any time. There's no account, no commitment, and no cost.
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