OTO Careers · How it works

From a blank page to a next step in five moves.

Bring your experience together, see the routes it opens and choose something practical to do next. No perfect CV or five-year plan required.

Five steps

What happens, in order.

Each step shows the screen you will see. Setup is quicker with a CV to hand, but you do not need one.

01

Create your account

Sign up with your email and a password and confirm your address. That is the only form; everything else happens inside the workspace.

Use an address you will keep. Check spam if the confirmation has not arrived within a few minutes.

02

Bring your experience

Upload a CV or type your roles in. An upload drafts the record for you: roles, dates, education and skills. Nothing is saved as fact until you review it.

Check names, dates and titles. Extraction misses things, and the record is only as useful as it is accurate.

03

Choose your direction

Say where you would like to be, with a target role or year if you have one, and pick the address for your public page. It is fine to be exploring.

Ambitions change. You can rewrite this at any time, and the next report will use the new version.

04

Read your Pathways report

Your first report sets out three routes drawn from your record, each with the evidence behind it, the questions to check and the next steps. It also starts your free seven-day trial of everything in Growth.

Read the reasoning, not just the titles. A route is something to investigate, not a prediction.

05

Keep it moving

Log learning as it happens, work through goal milestones and read the weekly Career Review. Share your public page when you are ready, with the sections you choose.

Ten minutes a week keeps the record current. The next report, appraisal or application starts from there.

After setup

A loop, not a one-off.

OTO is built for the months between big decisions. Each pass round the loop leaves the record a little more useful than before.

01

Capture

Add the work, learning and outcomes that matter, while they are fresh.

02

Connect

See the skills, patterns and gaps that run across your record.

03

Decide

Explore a route and choose the next useful move.

04

Return

Record what changed. The next review starts from there.

Before you start

A few useful answers.

Do I need a CV to get started?

No. You can type your roles in during setup. If you upload a CV, you review the extracted details before anything is saved.

Will my profile be public?

No. New profiles start private. Under My CV, then Sharing, you can choose link access or public visibility once you have reviewed your information.

Is a pathway a prediction?

No. It is a direction to investigate, based on the information you have given. It is not a hiring decision or a guarantee of a role.

What does it cost?

Foundation is free and keeps your career record, shared CV and monthly Career Check-in. Your first Pathways report starts a card-free seven-day trial. Growth is £30 per year. Flourish adds bounded coaching for £5 per month or £50 per year.

Free to start

Start with what you already know.

Create your private career record. No card. No automatic upgrade.