Your Next Move Launches Founding University Partnership to Give Students Career Clarity Before the Job Search

Your Next Move (YNM), an AI-powered career intelligence platform, is inviting universities to join its Founding University Partnership, a pilot program designed to help students understand their strengths and career direction before they start applying for jobs.

The idea behind YNM is simple: most students can list what they've done, but not what it means. A part-time job, a family caregiving role, a student organization, each builds real skills. Most students just don't have the language to describe them.

"A résumé can't capture the whole person," said Cristina Inglese, founder and CEO of YNM. "Students bring experience, values and capabilities that are easy to overlook, especially before they've built a professional track record. Our job is to help them see that clearly, before they ever apply."

How It Works

YNM uses AI to analyze a student's experiences, including jobs, coursework, activities, caregiving and community responsibilities, and translate them into a clear picture of transferable skills, values and potential career directions. The result isn't a job list. It's a starting point: language students can bring into an advising appointment, an internship interview or a first job search.

The platform is built around a simple premise: clarity should come before the application, not after a rejection.

Why Career Clarity Matters Before the First Application

For universities, the challenge is not simply helping students find their first job. Many students begin the career process without a clear understanding of what they already bring to the table.

A student may have developed communication skills through a campus organization, problem-solving abilities through part-time work, or responsibility and adaptability through experiences outside the classroom. Those experiences can be meaningful, but students may not immediately recognize how they translate into a professional setting.

YNM's student platform is built around this earlier stage of the career process. The company describes Your Next Move as a "self-understanding layer for students," designed to help them understand their motivations, strengths and the industries that may fit them before the job hunt begins. Its student offering is also positioned as a way to use career intelligence when considering majors, internships and first roles.

That approach gives students an opportunity to think about direction before immediately focusing on available positions. Instead of starting with a list of job openings, students can first develop a clearer understanding of how they think, what motivates them, where their strengths may be most valuable, and which areas they may want to explore further. YNM's broader platform also identifies transferable skills as part of its career intelligence profile.

YNM is designed to give students a way to make those connections earlier. By identifying transferable skills and potential directions before the application stage, students can enter career conversations with more context about themselves and better questions about where they want to go.

For career teams, that can create a more useful starting point for conversations with students. Rather than beginning with a résumé alone, advisors can have additional context about a student's strengths, values and interests to explore together.

Built To Complement, Not Replace, Career Services

YNM isn't positioned to replace the work universities already do, including career advising, résumé support, employer relationships and internship preparation. It's designed to make those conversations sharper.

Instead of a student walking into an advising appointment unsure what to say about themselves, they arrive with a clearer sense of their strengths, what they value in a work environment, and which paths are worth exploring. Advisors can spend that time on strategy, not discovery.

The goal is to give students another resource they can use alongside the career services already available on campus. It can provide a common starting point for students and advisors while leaving the deeper conversation, guidance and decision-making to the people involved.

The Founding University Pilot

YNM is offering a limited number of universities complimentary student access for one year, with regular check-ins to gather feedback and measure impact. Participating institutions will help shape the pilot's focus, from which student groups to include to what success should look like on their campus.

Key questions the pilot is designed to answer:

• Can students better articulate their transferable skills?
• Does it help them identify career paths worth investigating?
• Does it give them something concrete to bring into their next advising session?

As an early-stage platform, YNM sees this as a two-way learning partnership, one that will shape how the product evolves alongside the students and advisors who use it.

The university partnership also gives participating institutions an opportunity to explore how AI-powered career intelligence might fit into existing student support without requiring universities to replace the career resources and relationships they have already established.

For students, the broader objective is straightforward: understand what they have to offer before they are asked to prove it in an application.

Universities interested in exploring a Founding University Partnership can learn more at yournextmove.work/students.