Answer a short set of questions and Eden suggests career directions that fit the skills, interests and working preferences you describe — with the evidence you would need for each one.
A career finder helps you identify roles that fit the skills and preferences you already have. Eden, Education Direct's AI Career Advisor, takes your answers about strengths, interests and working style, then suggests career directions to explore, explains why each surfaced, and shows what you would need to move towards it.
The questions cover what you are good at, what you enjoy, how you prefer to work and where you are in your career. Your answers are used to suggest directions worth exploring — not to assign you a personality type or to rank you against other people.
The output is deliberately a shortlist rather than a single answer. Most people fit several directions, and the useful question is which one you can evidence soonest.
Starting from existing skills usually produces a faster move than starting from a job title. It surfaces roles you could enter now or after a short bridge, rather than roles that require several years of retraining before your first application.
Transferable skills are the capabilities that survive a change of employer, sector or job title. Identifying them is usually what makes a career change credible, because they let you write applications from evidence rather than from enthusiasm.
Example: Teaching evidences explaining complex material, managing a room, assessment against criteria and safeguarding. Those map cleanly onto training, learning design, quality assurance and customer-success roles.
For a change of direction, treat the suggestions as hypotheses to test. Compare each one against real adverts, check what is genuinely required, and confirm how much of it you already evidence before committing time or money to training.
Setting a target role is what connects discovery to the rest of the AI Career Advisor. Once a target is set, CV analysis, skills-gap analysis and job matching all work against the same destination instead of treating each tool as a separate exercise.
It suits people who are choosing between directions rather than people already committed to a specific role. If you already know your target, a skills gap analysis will move you forward faster.
Suggestions are generated from what you tell us in a short questionnaire. They are a starting point for research, not an assessment, a qualification decision, or a prediction of what you will enjoy in practice.
A few minutes. It is a short questionnaire, not an assessment, and you can revisit it as your circumstances change.
No. It works from your answers. Adding a CV afterwards allows the other tools to work against real evidence.
No. It does not produce a personality type or a validated psychometric result. It suggests career directions to research based on what you describe.
Choose the directions worth researching, read current adverts for them, then run a skills gap analysis against the one you want to pursue.