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The eight NACE competencies, as a self-assessment or a 360.
A career readiness assessment, ready on day one.
Insight Compass is Potentially’s career readiness assessment, built on the NACE Career Readiness Competencies. Your team adds its own questions, designs the report students receive, and points that report at the services you already run — and every student who completes the assessment gets a report and a next step straight away.
NACE template · Self-assessment · 360 with supervisors and faculty · Cohort analytics
LTI 1.3 · SSO and MFA
How confidently can you explain your strengths to an employer?
Career readiness for every student in the class.
Placed in a course, the assessment reaches the whole class at the same moment, and each student leaves with a report and a next step. Here is the assessment from a student’s side.
- 09:14
How confidently can you explain your strengths to an employer?
SubmitShe answers the last question. In Canvas, on a laptop or a phone, in one sitting.
- 09:14
CommunicationDevelopingCritical thinkingApplyingTeamworkAdvanced
Communication · practice a two-minute introduction with a friend first.
Her report is ready. Scored against the eight competencies, with guidance written for each band she reached.
- 09:16
Mock interviewWeek 3 · Tuesday 2:00 pmBookedResume reviewOnline · self-paced
She books a place. Recommendations come from your career center’s own catalog, with dates attached.
Afterwards the report downloads as a PDF she keeps, the results enter her Skills Profile, and a retake before graduation shows how far she has moved.
Start from the NACE template. Change what you like.
The template arrives with the eight competencies as scored dimensions, four named proficiency bands, questions written for each competency, and a student report already designed. Publish the template as it stands, or edit any part of it first. Then decide who answers.
The student answers about themselves.
At entry, before an internship, or ahead of graduation.
Supervisors and faculty answer the same questions.
An internship supervisor, a faculty mentor or a peer. Their ratings and the student’s own sit side by side in one report.
Reword a question. Rename a band.
Type a question, choose how it is answered and which competency it scores, drag the band thresholds, and preview the report as a student. No developer, and no ticket to raise.
The student’s view, met by the supervisor’s.
Internship supervisors, faculty mentors or peers answer the same questions about the student. Where the two views disagree, the report flags the gap — and that gap becomes the development plan.
Self-rating · 4.4
Supervisor · 3.2
Your team sets the round up once. The platform does the chasing.
Career readiness programs usually stall in the weeks of chasing after launch. Here that work is built in.
- 01Invitations. Your team assigns raters, or students nominate their own.
- 02Live status. Invited, in progress, submitted or overdue, in one grid.
- 03Reminders. Sent only to the people who are behind.
- 04Release rules. By hand, on completion, or at a threshold you set.
- 05Alerts. Raised when completion drops, while there is still time.
- 06Audit log. Every change recorded, and exportable.
Every competency, across every major.
Dashboards your team assembles from a library of charts, and every dataset exportable — a spreadsheet for your analysts, a PDF summary for deans and accreditors. The benchmark is your own students: this year against last, this major against the average.
Find where readiness is lowest.
Heatmaps of competency against major, themes from free-text answers, and movement between the first reading and the second — flagged against thresholds your team sets.
Everything in the career readiness assessment, at a glance.
- Question typesScales, sliders, grids, ranking, lists and free text — typed, or recorded as audio or video.
- The NACE templateEight competencies, four named bands, questions for each, and a report already designed.
- Scoring bandsNamed by your team, with thresholds you drag into place.
- Pools and branchingA different subset of questions for each student; irrelevant questions skipped.
- Report designerBuilt block by block, with guidance written per band and a preview as the student.
- Your brandingColors, logo and type follow your college.
- LMS embeddingCanvas, Blackboard, Moodle and D2L over LTI 1.3 Advantage.
- Direct deliveryFor internship supervisors, employers and alumni who have no LMS account.
- Compass 360Supervisor, faculty, peer and mentor roles, with anonymity set per round.
- Nominations and statusAssign raters or let students nominate them; track everyone in one grid.
- Reminders and releaseAimed at the people behind; reports released by hand, on completion or at a threshold.
- RetakesAt entry, before an internship and before graduation, for a record of growth.
- Cohort dashboardsAssembled from a library of charts, with a live preview.
- Heatmaps and comparisonsBy major, class year or any group you tag.
- Free-text themesOpen answers grouped into themes, with the quotes behind them.
- Distance traveledMovement between readings, for each student and each cohort.
- Priority flagsRaised against thresholds your team sets, with an action attached.
- Exports and audit logSpreadsheets, a PDF summary for deans and accreditors, and every change on record.
MTU Ready, measured before the first lecture.
Munster Technological University runs its student development program on Potentially across six campuses. The 2025 intake completed a structured self-assessment before their first lecture, so growth is the difference between two readings, not an estimate.
Start from the template, or with our team alongside.
- Start from the templateRead through the eight competencies and the report, change what you want, and publish. A class can be moving this semester.
- Build your ownWrite your own questions and outcomes in the editor, with guidance on the choices that matter — how many dimensions, and band labels a student can read.
- Configure the first assessment with our teamSetup support comes with onboarding. Building the first assessment end to end with you is a paid piece of work, and the controls end with your team.
What your team will ask first.
Is this the NACE Career Readiness Competency Assessment Tool?
Do we need a developer?
What does IT actually have to do?
Can internship supervisors rate a student without an account?
Can we change the questions and the band names?
Can we get the data out?
Related tools.
Pathways
Recommendations route into structured programs — build once, embed anywhere, update centrally.
Explore Pathways → Teaching & Learning · Career ServicesSkills Profile
The profile the student keeps — self-assessed competencies beside evidenced skills.
Explore Skills Profile →
See the career readiness template with your students in mind.
Bring the competencies you report against and the services you already run. We will show you the assessment, the student’s report and the cohort dashboard in one session.