Your next career move.

You know who you are, let us find the career to match it.

Your experience, interests and ambitions can lead to more than one kind of working life. ViaLem brings them together in four personal career paths, with reasons each could suit you and practical steps to explore them. You choose what comes next.

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Four directions. Built around you.

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Same

Build on what you do well in your current path.

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Parallel

Put your strengths to work in another field.

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New

See how a different direction could look like.

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Craft

Try to explore a practical hands-on route.

Recognise what you bring

Put your strengths and experience into words you can use.

See more possibilities

Connect what matters to you with different kinds of work.

Choose your next move

Compare your options and take a practical step towards one.

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Multiple paths, build on your past experience

Example: Alexandra knows what matters for the next move: using years of operations experience, spending less time managing people and keeping a dependable income. There is also a long-standing interest in restoring furniture. Here is how those priorities could open four directions.

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Same path

Senior operations specialist

Use Alexandra’s experience of making everyday work run well, with more focus on solving problems and improving processes.

What Alexandra brings: knowledge of how teams and processes work together.

Ask about: how much people management the role involves.

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Parallel path

Implementation consultant

Help clients put a service or system into practice, drawing on Alexandra’s coordination and delivery experience.

What Alexandra brings: the ability to turn a plan into work people can carry out.

Ask about: travel, sales responsibilities and the software knowledge required.

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New path

Service designer

Explore improving how people experience a service. Alexandra’s operations background offers a starting point for developing new design skills.

What Alexandra brings: an understanding of how services work in practice.

Ask about: the training, portfolio and starting salary involved in the move.

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Craft path

Furniture restoration

Give an enduring interest some time and attention, beginning with a restoration project alongside existing work.

What Alexandra brings: an interest in furniture from her fathers carpentry business and a reason to develop practical skills.

Ask about: the learning, costs and demand involved in taking it further.

Alexandra is a fictional example. The photographs illustrate kinds of work and do not show a customer result or guarantee job availability.

How it works

Build your next move around what matters to you.

Start with what you know about yourself. Build from there. Your interests, the things you do well and what you want from working life all have a place in your Career Compass.

Inside Know Yourself
A question from the questionnaire

What energizes you most at work?

A few of the answer options

Solving complex problems
Improving processes
Collaborating across teams

What draws you in? What kind of working day brings out your best? Bring your preferences into the picture, including the people, pace and surroundings that suit you.

Use what you know about yourself to shape your next move.

Inside Acknowledge Your Past
A question from the questionnaire

Which skills have you consistently used throughout your career?

A few of the answer options

Problem solving
Stakeholder management
Process improvement

Look at what you have learned and where you have made a difference. Work, study, personal projects, caring and volunteering can all give you experience worth building on.

What you have learned is experience you can build on.

What this builds towards
In your full report

Your Career Compass

Same

Build on what you do well in a role that suits you.

Parallel

Put your strengths to work in another field.

New

See how a different direction could use what you bring.

Craft

Give a hands-on interest a practical route to explore.

Give your ambitions a place in the plan. Add the roles or interests you want to explore, along with the income, flexibility and other needs your next move should respect.

Your Career Compass connects these insights to four personal career paths. See what makes each worth considering, what you would need to learn and where you could begin.

A career profile which you can use in any AI tool

Your Career.md brings your strengths, preferences and possible directions into a profile you can use again. Bring that context into CV work, interview preparation or a conversation with an AI chat tool you choose.

Copy or download it from your ViaLem Hub. You choose where to share it.

Your raw questionnaire answers and uploaded documents stay out of the profile, and it is not automatically shared with employers or recruiters.

Career.md

Your experience, in your own context.

Choose how you want to move forward.

Get a clear view of your options, add tools to work on your next move, or talk through the decision with a counsellor. Choose the support that suits what you want to do next.

Let’s talk about your next move.

What would you like your next move to make possible? Tell us what matters to you, ask your questions and see how ViaLem could help you take it forward.

A conversation about your goals and how ViaLem works.

Help your people see where their strengths can take them.

Give people a way to explore what comes next, with career directions built around what they bring and what matters to them. ViaLem vouchers can support development, internal moves or career exploration after redundancy. Participants choose what to share from their Career.md profile.

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