Mentors & coaches
Software cannot tell you your speech lacked conviction. So we did not try. Mentors read the work you send in, tell you specifically what to fix, and rate it — and that rating is one of only two things that move your scores. The other is the assessment.
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01 · Meet the mentors
People working in business, finance, technology, design and engineering, and graduates a few years ahead of you. Every one of them is a real person with a name, a qualification and a story — not a stock photograph and a job title. Each one lists the careers and pathways they can guide, so you can narrow it to the direction you are weighing up.
For mentors
Review the work students send in, help them choose a direction, and tell them what the job is really like.
02 · Why people
Software is genuinely good at some of this. It can time a speech, count filler words, flag that you spoke for four minutes when the brief said two, and check whether a spreadsheet formula is right. None of that tells you whether the work was any good.
What software can check
What only a person catches
A student who is told what to fix improves. A student who is told a score goes quiet.
03 · Five kinds of help
The person who reviews your presentation every week is not the person to talk to about whether to change direction, and neither of them is the right person if the real problem is pressure at home. So there are five roles, and you are matched to the one the situation calls for.
When you cannot decide between two directions
They work through the choice with you rather than making it for you — what each path demands, what you would be giving up, and what evidence would tell you which is right.
How you meet one: You ask for help choosing
Every week, on the work you send in
Communication, finance, coding, design, writing. They review your actual submissions, tell you specifically what to fix, and rate it. That rating is one of only two things that move your scores — the other is the assessment.
How you meet one: You send work for review
When the problem is not academic
Pressure at home, burnout, anxiety about a decision, or something that has nothing to do with your course. Confidential — not shared with a parent or a college.
How you meet one: You ask
Before you commit to a direction
People currently doing the job you are aiming at. Fifteen minutes with someone two years into a role tells you more than any article, because you can ask the question you are actually worried about.
How you meet one: Matched to your top-ranked direction
When you want to know it is possible
Students who walked the same path from a similar starting point. Less about technique, more about the thing nobody writes down: what they would have done differently.
How you meet one: Matched on your direction and pathway
04 · A review
Apart from the assessment, this is the only thing that moves your scores, so it is worth being precise about it.
A mentor reads the work itself — the recording, the file, the write-up — and rates it. No algorithm decides the rating.
Not “good effort”. Which sentence lost the room, which number was wrong, what to do differently next time.
Feedback that arrives after you have forgotten what you made is feedback nobody acts on.
05 · Matching
A mentor who has never worked in the field you are aiming at can still teach you to present. They cannot tell you what the third year of that job is like. So matching runs on the things that change the quality of the conversation.
Your top-ranked direction, and the specific career if you have chosen one.
The route in you are working towards — a degree, a diploma, a professional qualification, straight into work.
What you see in the app Example
“You are aiming at investment banking. We found three mentors who have done it.”
15 min
Introductory conversation
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Mentoring session
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Career planning session
The fifteen-minute introduction is free and needs no account. It exists so you can find out whether a direction is worth pursuing before committing anything to it.
06 · Reaching a person
The failure mode of every self-directed learning product is that a student quietly stops and nobody notices. An accountability loop that only nags is not much better — after the third notification it becomes wallpaper. So the answer is a person, not another notification.
Ask for the free fifteen-minute introduction. No account, no card — just your question.
Ask for a journey in the app. A mentor plans it with you, and confirms the progress you mark.
Send it for review. A mentor reads it, tells you what to fix, and rates it.
That is the difference between a platform that is automated and one that is responsible. It also means the product is honest about its own limits — stage seven exists precisely because software runs out.
07 · Trust
We check every mentor’s background; verified mentors carry a badge on their profile.
The ProfileUp team reviews the feedback mentors give. A mentor whose work falls short can be paused or removed.
A mentor sees only the students assigned to them: their scores, assessment answers, journey and the work they send in. Never your reflections — those are not shown to anyone.
What you tell a counsellor is not passed to a parent or a college. The one exception is a genuine safeguarding concern — and then we tell you we are acting.
ProfileUp is backed by Expert Education, which has been guiding students for over thirty years. The mentor network is the part of the platform that comes directly out of that — more on where this came from.
Next: where you are right nowFree, no account needed, and no pitch at the end of it. Ask the question you are actually worried about.
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