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The upGrad Career Planner is a simple yet insightful tool that helps you to discover the key skills you need to achieve your career goals and also helps you evaluate how prepared you are as a professional to achieve a powerful growth trajectory in your career over the next three to five years.

This assessment helps you evaluate yourself on the five key factors which empower an individual to have a rewarding career. You can imagine these factors as spokes of a wheel where each factor plays an important role to set your career growth in motion. Your score could vary from high to low for each of the five factors. The factors where you score high are the signature career strengths. Factors where your score is medium or low could be pointing at your hidden areas of development; critical and essential to take your career to the next level.This assessment also highlights the combination of hard and soft skills you need to acquire to meet your desired career goal and also recommends suitable upskilling programs that could help you bridge this skill gap.

You upGrad counselor, will help you further interpret the results of this assessment to create a tangible action plan to achieve your career goals.Your upGrad coach will help you to interpret each factor and will make you introspect over your hidden behavior patterns that prevent you from getting the career growth you are aiming for. A coaching session will help you to reflect over these previously unexplored blind spots about your career and empower you to take the right actions required to take your career to the next level over the next two to three years.