For university careers teams
How YAGO works for students and for your careers team
This page follows one assigned activity from the day a group is set up to the day a member of staff checks progress. It says what YAGO does today and what it does not do, and every sample record on it is labelled as an example.
Checked against the product on 29 September 2026.
The short version
- Your team creates a group of students, adds them by email, CSV file or join link, and assigns an activity made of one or more steps.
- Students do each step in YAGO's own tools: CV Lab, Interview practice, Career direction and the LinkedIn Evaluator. Each student sees only their own progress and scores.
- Your team sees who has joined, who has started, and each student's scores and status. It cannot open the text of a CV, an interview transcript or a recording from the dashboard.
- Scores are automated feedback on one activity. They do not show that a student will be hired.
Setting up a group and an activity
Your team does this from the staff dashboard. In the dashboard an assigned activity is called a challenge, and a group of students is called a group.
Create a group
A group is a named set of students, for example "MSc Computing 2025". It can also have a short description. Activities are assigned to groups, and everyone in a group receives them.
Add students
- Invite one student by email. YAGO sends an email with a link to join.
- Upload a CSV file with an email column. A name column is optional and a template can be downloaded. Duplicate and invalid addresses are skipped and counted.
- Share the group's join link on your own portal or learning environment, so students can join without an invitation.
A student who has been invited but has not joined yet appears in the roster as "Invited".
How students join
A student opens the join link, signs in or creates an account, and is added to the group. A student who was invited by email but signs in another way sees the invitation on their dashboard once their email address is confirmed, and joins with one click. Nothing is assigned to a student until they have joined.
Assign an activity
An activity has a title, a description, instructions for students, an optional due date and one or more steps. It can be saved as a draft. Students see it only once it is published and assigned to their group.
The five kinds of step
| Step | Opens | Counts as done when | Default pass mark |
|---|---|---|---|
| CV scan | CV Lab | the scan score reaches the pass mark; a minimum ATS score can be required as well | 70 |
| CV build | CV Lab | the student saves a CV in CV Lab | None |
| Career compass | Career direction | the student finishes the questions | None |
| Interview practice | Interview practice | the overall score of the answer reaches the pass mark | 60 |
| LinkedIn evaluation | LinkedIn Evaluator | the profile score reaches the pass mark | 70 |
- Your team can change the pass marks, and can make any step optional as long as at least one step stays required.
- By default the steps unlock in order. Your team can turn that off so students can do them in any order.
- An activity is complete when every required step is done.
What a student sees
A student sees the activities of their own group on their dashboard, together with any invitation that is waiting for them.
The activity page
It shows the title, the description, your instructions, the due date and the steps in order. The dashboard marks an activity as overdue once its due date has passed and it is not finished.
Each step
- Its kind, and whether it is optional.
- Its state: ready to start, in progress, completed or locked.
- The student's best score out of 100, once they have tried it.
- A button that opens the tool: Start, Continue, or "Complete previous step" while the step is locked.
How a step is counted
- A step is completed automatically when a result reaches its pass mark.
- YAGO keeps the best score. A step that has been passed stays passed, even if a later attempt scores lower.
- Only work done after the group was created counts. If a student did a CV scan, a CV build, a LinkedIn evaluation or the career questions after the group was created but before the step unlocked, YAGO credits it once the step unlocks.
- Interview practice is not credited afterwards: an answer counts only if it is recorded while the step is open.
These are the same tools individual users have, and a student's own page shows only their own progress and scores.
What your team sees
Students appear by email address. Everything below comes from the staff dashboard.
The overview
The first screen shows the number of active students, the average CV score, the number of running activities, the share of students who are Ready, how many were active in the last seven days and how many are At risk. It lists each group with its average CV score and its Ready and At risk counts. An action queue lists students at risk, groups with no students, activities nobody is enrolled in and activities that are due soon.
A group's page
Each group has its own page: the number of students, the average CV, ATS and industry-fit scores, how many students completed each step of the group's newest activity, and one row per student. The next section shows an example of those rows.
An activity's progress
Each activity shows how many of its enrolled students are Not started, In progress or Completed, and lists them with each student's best score. From the same page staff can see which groups the activity is assigned to and add another group, send a reminder to everyone who has not finished or to one student, and edit, publish or delete it.
The roster
The roster lists every student in every group of your institution. Staff can search, filter by group or status, export a CSV file, open a student's readiness breakdown, send reminders and remove students. Removing a student takes them out of all of the institution's groups and does not delete their account or CV data.
Activity feed and insights
A feed lists recent events for students who are members of a group, such as CV scan completed, LinkedIn profile evaluated, Career Compass completed, joined group and challenge completed. An insights page shows how many students reached each readiness milestone and compares CV scores by group.
A sample group
This is what the rows on a group's page look like. The five students are invented for this page: they are not real people, and the numbers are not results from any institution. In the product the first column shows each student's email address: the part before the @ in bold, the whole address beneath.
Illustrative sample data
| Student | CV score | Action | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Student A | 84 | 76 | 3/3 steps | Ready |
| Student B | 66 | No score yet | 2/3 steps | In progress |
| Student C | 58 | 61 | 1/3 steps | In progress |
| Student D | No score yet | No score yet | 0/3 steps | At risk |
| Student E | 62 | No score yet | 2/3 steps | In progress |
How to read it
- Student A has a strong CV, has a LinkedIn score and has reached the last step. Their status is Ready.
- Students B, C and E have started and are In progress. Action shows how far into the activity a student has started, not how many steps they have passed.
- Student D joined more than two weeks ago and has not started, so the dashboard marks them At risk and the action queue counts them.
- The CV and LinkedIn scores are each student's best on their account. They can include work done before the student joined the group, unlike a step, where only work done after the group was created counts.
What the numbers mean
- CV score
- A score from 0 to 100 that an AI model writes for a saved CV. The dashboard shows a student's best score. A score of 70 or more counts as strong.
- LinkedIn score
- The best score, out of 100, from the student's LinkedIn profile evaluations.
- Action
- The column that shows how far a student has got in the activity, for example "2/3 steps". It is the furthest step the student has started, not a count of completed steps.
- Hiring readiness
- A number from 0 to 100 that YAGO calculates from five milestones, listed below.
How hiring readiness is calculated
| Milestone | Points |
|---|---|
| A saved CV with a score of 70 or more | 40 |
| At least one CV scan | 15 |
| At least one saved CV | 15 |
| A finished career direction quiz | 15 |
| Membership of a group for seven days or more | 15 |
A student with 70 points or more is Ready. Otherwise a student is At risk with fewer than 30 points more than 14 days after joining, or after more than 21 days without activity. Everyone else is In progress.
Interview practice and the LinkedIn Evaluator count towards activity steps but earn no readiness points. Readiness measures preparation activity inside YAGO. It does not predict whether a student will be hired.
Reminders
Your team can send a reminder email about an activity to every student who has not finished it, or to one student. YAGO sends nothing on its own: a reminder goes out only when a member of staff asks for it.
Who is skipped
- Students who have turned off reminder emails.
- Students who have completed every required step.
- Students who were sent a reminder for the same activity in the last 48 hours.
What it does not do
- It does not show your team the text of a student's CV, an interview transcript or a recording. The dashboard shows scores, status and progress.
- It does not restrict a staff account to some groups. Every staff account sees every group of its institution.
- It does not send reminders automatically.
- It has no field for a student's name. Students are identified by their email address, and some screens also show a name built from the part before the @, so ana.popescu@ can appear as Ana Popescu.
- It does not measure employment outcomes. A score, a completed activity or a Ready status is not evidence that a student will be hired.
How data is handled, who processes it and what is not yet published are set out on the university overview and in the Privacy Policy.
See it with your own group in mind
A walkthrough takes 20 minutes with the YAGO team. We show a challenge from the student's side and from your team's side, then talk about whether a pilot fits.