Wondering what to do next?
Answer four quick questions. Laddie, your guide, tells you what it heard, suggests two kinds of work you could try this week, and learns from how each one goes.
Start hereWhere are you right now?
One tap, and this page is written for where you are. Not sure? Start anyway
Start hereWhat kind of work would you like more of?
One tap starts it. About a minute, then a free account, and Laddie writes your read straight away. Not sure? Start anyway
And when it didn't, your answer changes what it suggests next.
Every suggestion comes with the words of yours it was based on. No black box. No mystery match.
Say “not quite” and tell it what's closer. It goes by your words from then on, and remembers next time.
Each suggestion is a small piece of real work. Loved it? It goes deeper. It dragged? It asks which part, because that part is the clue.
How it works
Explore
Answer four questions and Laddie suggests work your experience could carry into, with people to ask and courses to look at. Keep what interests you.
Try
Every direction starts with a small piece of the work, because doing it tells you more than a job title. Like it, and the next test is bigger: an hour on a realistic brief, to find out if you can do the real thing and still enjoy it. Keep going and it becomes a project, one session at a time.
A small piece of learning design work.
A new starter's first-day email: 600 words in one block, with the important bits buried.
Liked it? Next, a proof build
Laddie
Tell Laddie what you liked and what you didn't. Each next step builds on what you said.
I liked cutting it down more than making it look nice. What could I try next?
The cutting down seems worth another look. Was it deciding what matters, or writing it plainly? Those lead to different next steps.
In view while you talk
Open roles
Laddie finds open roles in the directions you're testing and says in a line why each one is worth a look.
3 open roles close to what you're going for.
Learning experience designer
A software company · Careers page
Asks for turning long guidance into short steps, the part of your first experiment you enjoyed.
Onboarding content specialist
A health tech company · Hiring system
Close to the customer onboarding on your CV, with writing at the centre of the job.
Junior instructional designer
A university · Job board
A first role in the direction you kept, and the post welcomes people moving from other fields.
Open one with OffLadder CV on to check it against your CV.
Put one away and roles like it rank lower from then on.
Apply
OffLadder CV, a free Chrome extension, sits beside the job post. It shows what the job asks for and what your CV is missing, rewrites your CV for it, writes the cover letter and screening answers, fills in the form and finds who to write to. A missing skill becomes a short lesson with Laddie, and before the interview, five practice questions built from the CV you sent.
This job asks for
Looks genuine · No reposts seen · On the company's own site
Keeps up as you change
By noticing what you light up about, and what you quietly put off.
Today
Two directions worth testing, and the words of yours each one rests on.
This week
Not reading about a job. Doing a small piece of it. You notice what held you, and Laddie remembers.
This month
A bigger task in the direction that stuck. Can you do it? Do you still want to by the end?
When you're ready
Open roles that fit what you found out, and that pay what you said you need.
Who it's for
Pick the closest and we'll start from there.
A personality quiz hands you a label and leaves. Laddie hands you something real to try, stays for what happens, and lets you decide what fits.
Over time
Finish an experiment, put a role away or hear back from an employer, and your directions and open roles re-rank around it.
OffLadder CV · Free for Chrome
When you're ready to apply, one panel beside the job post tailors your CV using only what you've really done, fills in the form, and leaves submit to you.
Evaluate
Plus the years it asks for against the years your CV shows, the pay, where it is, when it was posted, and whether the post looks genuine.
Works in Chrome on a computer. 3 tailorings a week free with an OffLadder account.
More on pricing, how we work and privacy.
Yes. Add your CV and Laddie builds on your experience instead of starting you over.
Mostly people in work who want something different but can't risk a wrong move. It also helps people coming back after a break and recent graduates.
A test tells you what type you are. OffLadder gives you a piece of the work to try, then changes what it suggests based on how it went.
Take it further with a proof build: an hour on a realistic brief, like a plan, a teardown or a short analysis, to see if you can do the real thing and still enjoy it. It stays on your record, and if you want more you can grow it into a project over a few weeks.
You don't pick yet. You try the work, talk it through with Laddie, and apply only once you know you'd like it.
Laddie is an AI coach. Unlike a fresh chat, it remembers what you've tried. It can get things wrong, so check anything important.
Answer four questions first. Then open a free account with Google or just your email, no password, and Laddie writes your first read straight away.
Yes. OffLadder CV is a free Chrome extension that sits beside the job post. It shows what the post asks for and what your CV already shows, offers fifteen minutes of the work, rewrites your CV for the job without adding anything you haven't done, fills in the company's form for you to check and submit, and finds who leads the team so you can write to a person.
Live postings from company careers pages, job boards and hiring systems. Laddie checks each one against the directions you're testing and the jobs you've applied for, and only shows the ones worth a look, each with a line on why.
No. Every change is checked against your original CV, and anything it can't find there goes back the way you wrote it. When a post asks for something your CV doesn't mention, it asks you first.
Yes, to start. A free account includes 5 Laddie messages a day (10 on your first day), every experiment and reflection, and a weekly taste of the member extras. Membership is $9 a month or $79 a year. It removes Laddie's daily limit and the 3-a-week cap on CV tailoring (members tailor within a daily fair-use limit), and gives you new directions, a weekly brief of next steps, Open doors (a search for workshops, volunteering and people to meet near you) and proof builds (an hour on a realistic brief, the bigger test of a direction; one session a week is free) whenever you want them. The first membership starts with a 7-day free trial (one per person); cancel before it ends and nothing is charged.
Yes, any time. We never sell your answers or your CV.
That's what this is for. Start with where you are, and find out the rest by trying.