Career Intelligence Platform

Inspiration

Career Intelligence Platform began with a personal need. I am navigating a career transition while AI is rapidly changing roles, skills, and industries. My CV showed where I had been, but it could not explain which skills would remain valuable, what was becoming automated, or what I should do next. What started as a solution for myself became a career decision-support system designed to help professionals understand change early and turn uncertainty into informed action.

What it does

The platform combines two capabilities: Career Intelligence Baseline: GPT‑5.6 structures the user’s CV and helps identify career stability, automation exposure, transferable skills, gaps, and adjacent opportunities. Career Monitoring: follows how relevant roles, skills, and market conditions change over time, generating alerts and updated action plans. A GPT‑5.6-powered Career AI Advisor explains the results and answers personalized questions. The Build Week demo uses a fictional profile and clearly labeled simulated labour-market data.

How we built it

We built a runnable web application using Next.js, React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, the OpenAI API, GPT‑5.6, and Codex. Codex helped us inspect the codebase, implement the complete user journey, integrate GPT‑5.6, troubleshoot runtime and PDF issues, refine the interface, and test the application. Deterministic logic calculates the traceable scores, while GPT‑5.6 structures CV information, explains the evidence, and generates personalized guidance.

Challenges we ran into

Our main challenge was turning a broad idea into a clear product—not just another CV analyzer or chatbot. We also needed to separate reliable scoring from generative interpretation. For this reason, deterministic logic calculates the scores, while GPT‑5.6 explains them. Other challenges included PDF processing, intermittent API issues, and clearly communicating that the demo’s labour-market data is simulated.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We transformed a personal career concern into a complete, working product. The application includes: A live GPT‑5.6 integration User-confirmed CV extraction Traceable career scores Automation and skills analysis Adjacent career opportunities Personalized alerts and a 90-day plan A conversational Career AI Advisor Continuous Career Monitoring

Most importantly, the platform explains not only what may be changing, but what the user can do next.

What we learned

We learned that career risk cannot be reduced to a single prediction. A role may become less stable while the individual’s career opportunities increase through transferable skills. We also learned that combining deterministic scoring with GPT‑5.6 explanations creates results that are both traceable and understandable. Codex showed us how quickly a personal idea can evolve into a functional product through iterative building, testing, and refinement.

What's next for Career Intelligence Platform

The next step is to connect verified labour-market data and transform the prototype into a production-ready personal monitoring service. Future development will include recurring market updates, personalized alerts, progress tracking, scenario comparisons, stronger privacy controls, and support for more countries, industries, and languages. Our vision is simple: turn a static CV into a living career decision system that helps people act before change becomes a crisis.

Built With

• api
• chatgpt
• codex
• gpt-5.6
• next.js
• openai