Skills and labour market intelligence
Aligned to the canonical UK Standard Skills Classification and live employer demand, so students see what the market actually wants.
Setlwork
SOLUTIONS
HOW IT WORKS
From skills diagnostics to cohort-level insight
01
JOB READINESS SCORING
Every student gains a better understanding of where they stand
A personalised score built on a three-layer model: Setlwork 5 capabilities (how students grow), the UK Standard Skills Classification (what they can do), and each role's job description, all read from the same evidence library and aligned to the student's profile and CV.
02
PERSONALISED CAREER ACTION PLAN
Clear guidance and actions to help students get where they want to be
Every student gets personalised guidance with specific actions. Your teams provide wrap-around support and track each student's progress in one place.
03
COHORT CAREER INSIGHT
Understand your student cohort. Intervene early.
Student cohort-wide data and analysis on skills and capabilities gaps so your team can identify who needs support and you can target resources more efficiently.
OUR METHODOLOGY
Data-informed. Human-centred. Outcome-focused.
Our methodology combines:
Reflective learner insight
Ten reflective questions surface what students have actually done across study, work, volunteering and life, not how they would rate themselves.
AI-powered personalisation
Every CV and answer feeds a structured evidence library that's read, classified and mapped per student.
Opportunity alignment
Student evidence is compared to each role's requirements with an honest readiness signal and clear next steps.
to support better decisions, stronger readiness, and clearer pathways into work.
PROVEN IN PRACTICE
We ran a live pilot with De Montfort University
We put Setlwork in front of international students across the Business and Law faculty, then measured what changed for each of them, before and after.
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could name exactly which skills they were missing
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left with a clear, personalised action plan
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were shown suitable roles they had never considered
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rise in perceived job-market readiness
6/1010/10
The careers team's confidence in prioritising the students who need urgent support rose to the maximum. They asked to run Setlwork across their whole cohort.
MEET THE TEAM
Built by people who have lived the problem.
Setlwork is led by founders and operators with deep, practical experience inside the universities and AI organisations shaping employability for students.
FOUNDER
Cato
Rolea.
Rolea.
Founder & Chief Futures Officer
A published author, keynote speaker and recognised authority on the transformation of higher education through AI, with 15+ years across employability, careers, skills and institutional operations worldwide.
Leads the product and responsible, ethical technology side, so university partners can be fully confident the tech works exactly the way they need it, with the trust and accountability institutions require at every step.
FOUNDER
Dr Doug
Cole.
Cole.
Founder & Chief Learning Officer
A global authority on learning for employability and student success, and one of the UK's most recognised voices on embedding employability across the curriculum at scale.
Leads the learning and employability strategy that turns Setlwork into a system delivering measurable, evidence-based outcomes for international students across institutions at scale.
Recognitions
Finalist 2026
Times Higher Education
Digital Universities UK Start-Up
Digital Universities UK Start-Up