Riverside College (demo)

How it works

Five steps, none of which need an account until you want to keep what you have done.

  1. 1

    Choose how to start

    Pick an activity, a short run of scenarios from one career area such as graphic design or nursing, or let the taster choose for you. Neither needs an account.

    • Not sure where to begin? Tell us where you're starting from and we'll suggest a few activities to try, help you shortlist some to explore, or find activities that build the skills for your direction.
    • See it before you start. Each activity shows how many scenarios it has, roughly how long it takes and who it was written with, with a preview of the first few.
    • Or take the taster. It serves one scenario at a time from across the catalogue. After each, choose more on that topic, more from that career area, or something different.
  2. 2

    Answer, then see why

    Each scenario describes a situation from someone's working day and asks what you would do. Some have one best answer, some have two or more, and some options are partly right.

    • Your first answer counts. It sets your score for the scenario. If you missed a best answer, read why and choose again, or move on.
    • Every option is explained. Each choice you make is revealed with the professional's reasoning, and by the end you have read why every option works or doesn't.
    • Ask about an answer. Where the coach is offered, ask why one option beats another. Its answers come from the professional's explanations and never change your score.
  3. 3

    Say how it felt

    After each scenario, rate how much you enjoyed it, from 1, not at all, to 5, loved it. Doing well and enjoying something are different things, and your profile keeps them apart.

    • Change your mind. Come back to a scenario and you can update your rating.
    • Sometimes, say why. Some scenarios also ask why you answered as you did, to put your thinking into words.
    • See the whole activity. At the end you get your first-answer score, how much you enjoyed it, the scenario you enjoyed most and the skills you used.
  4. 4

    Build a skills profile

    Each scenario counts once, under its primary skill among the 13 core skills of the UK Standard Skills Classification, the vocabulary behind Skills England's Employability Skills Framework.

    • Two measures, side by side. For each skill, your first-answer score out of 100 and your enjoyment out of 5, with an overall figure that weighs them equally.
    • Skills you can name. Among them working with others, problem solving and decision making, planning and organising, numeracy and creating.
    • In other frameworks' words. Show the same skills in the terms of Skills Builder or SHL's Universal Competency Framework, if those are what your school or employer uses.
  5. 5

    Keep it and go further

    Until you create an account, your results live in this browser only. Create one when you want to keep them; anything you did as a guest comes with you.

    • Already have an account? Sign in, and choose whether to add what you did as a guest.
    • See where to go next. Your strongest skills so far, and the activities you haven't tried that use them.
    • Your results stay yours. Partners see figures about engagement across their audience, never your name, your answers or your individual results.
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