Help every young person discover where they'll thrive.
ThriveFit gives every young person a personalised profile of their strengths, what matters to them, and where they will do their best work. That self-awareness helps them choose subjects, make the most of work experience and picture their future with more confidence, and it works alongside the careers programme you already run.
For secondary Schools, Colleges, Universities and youth organisations · works alongside your existing careers programme.
A self-awareness foundation under the rest of your careers work.
In about 10–15 minutes, each young person works through a set of questions and receives their own personalised report. The adult supporting them gets a short guide too. By the time they are considering options, work experience or 1:1s, you already have a cohort you actually understand.
Know each young person, at scale
An individual profile of strengths, values and ideal career environment for everyone in the year group, without adding face-to-face hours you don't have.
Better subject & pathway choices
Young people connect options to who they are, so curriculum and pathway decisions are made with reasons, and you can evidence that link.
Work experience that lands
Self-awareness going in means work experience / part time jobs are chosen and approached with intent, turning time out of school into a meaningful encounter.
Warm-start personal guidance
Advisers open every 1:1 already knowing the young person, so the time goes on career coaching, guidance and not groundwork.
Parents brought in
Each profile comes with a Support Guide, giving you a ready-made way to engage parents and carers in their young person's choices.
Evidence for your programme
A consistent, documented activity across the cohort that supports your benchmark reporting, and evidence for the report card judgement on how well young people are supported into their next phase.
Ready for the work experience guarantee
From September 2026, schools are expected to reshape their programmes so that every young person gets one week's worth of work experience activities across Years 7 to 9, and one week's worth of work experience across Years 10 and 11. Each experience has to be meaningful, which the guidance defines as having a shared purpose, real two-way contact with an employer, and time to prepare beforehand and reflect afterwards.
That is a significant new expectation arriving with no extra funding and no extra staff. ThriveFit® does not find work experience or deliver it. What it does is make what you arrange count for more, because a young person who understands their own strengths arrives ready to use the time.
Chosen for a reason
Young people often end up wherever a family contact could offer a week. A profile gives them language for what they are drawn to and the kind of environment that suits them, so the work experience they push for is one they actually have a reason to want.
Prepared before they walk in
Preparation is written into the definition of a meaningful experience. Each young person arrives already able to say something about their strengths and what they are hoping to find out, which changes the quality of the conversations they have while they are there.
Reflection with something to measure against
Reflection is the other named requirement, and it is the one most often skipped because there is nothing concrete to reflect against. Their profile gives them a reference point: did that environment suit the way they like to work, and what does that tell them about the next choice?
The Years 7 to 9 requirement is the harder half to fill, because it covers activities rather than time inside a workplace. Profiling a whole year group is a documented, cohort-wide activity in its own right, and it means that by the time those young people reach Year 10 they are choosing work experience from a position of knowing themselves.
ThriveFit supports how young people choose, prepare for and reflect on their experiences of work. It does not replace work experience and does not count towards the two weeks.
You're expected to personalise careers guidance for every young person, with the time and budget of one team.
The updated Gatsby Benchmarks raise the bar: tailored support for each individual, choices linked to who they are, work experience that actually means something, and parents brought into the picture. ThriveFit is the piece that makes all of that possible without adding to your workload.
Addressing the needs of each young person
One careers lead can't sit down with every student often enough to really know them. An individual profile for everyone in the cohort gives you that insight without the hours.
Linking curriculum learning to careers
Young people pick subjects based on grades or friends, with little sense of their own strengths. ThriveFit connects options to who they actually are, so choices come with reasons.
Experiences of workplaces
Self-awareness before work experience helps young people choose well and prepare, so the experience is genuinely meaningful.
Personal guidance
Advisers spend the first half of a 1:1 just working out who's in front of them. Every session starts with a rich, ready-made starting point, so the time goes on guidance, not groundwork.
Plus the emphasis on engaging parents and carers, reinforced again in the June 2026 guidance: every profile is sent with a Support Guide built to support those conversations at home. The statutory guidance also points careers leaders to the CDI Career Development Framework, whose first learning area, 'Grow throughout life', is about young people learning and reflecting on themselves, their background and their strengths. That is the ground a ThriveFit® profile covers.
The Gatsby Benchmarks are published by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation; ThriveFit is an independent product and is not endorsed by or affiliated with Gatsby.
Designed for teams that don't have spare capacity
ThriveFit is designed to add as little as possible to your team's workload. Nothing to install, no training session needed and nothing to mark. If you can share a code with a group, you're ready to go.
Start small or start ready
Try it free with one student, or get codes for a whole cohort. Nothing to install and nothing to set up.
Fits in easily
A tutor period, a careers lesson or at home. Each young person uses their code and answers honestly for about 15 minutes.
See where everyone's up to
Your dashboard quietly keeps count, so you know who might need a nudge before options evening. No chasing, no spreadsheets.
However your day already works
There's no fixed way to run it. Pick whatever fits your timetable and your cohort, and mix and match across year groups.
In tutor time
Hand the codes to tutors and let each form work through their profiles together in a tutor period. One adult, a whole group, about 30 minutes. Done.
As homework
Set it as homework on the platform you already use. Young people complete their profile at home, in their own time.
In a careers lesson or 1:1
Drop it into a careers lesson, or send a code ahead of a one-to-one so the adviser already knows the young person before they sit down.
Evidence it in Compass+, without the extra admin
Your dashboard keeps a live record of who has completed their profile and when. Download it as a spreadsheet and log the activity against the Gatsby Benchmarks in Compass+, or in whatever tracker you already keep. Tutor sessions, careers lessons and one-to-ones, all accounted for.
Compass+ is provided by The Careers & Enterprise Company. ThriveFit is an independent product and isn't affiliated with it.
ThriveFit works alongside the careers provision you already have, giving every young person a starting point for the conversations you're already running.
Ready-made resources to help teachers in tutor time, and to build the profiles into a full programme over time.
Bring ThriveFit to your young people
Start with a free trial, check pricing for your cohort, or buy codes when you're ready.
Try it free
Run a small pilot with one student and see the profile and Support Guide before you commit.
See pricing
Simple per-young-person rates, with volume options for larger cohorts and multi-year agreements.
Buy codes
Know what you need? Get a batch of access codes for your cohort and hand them out your way.
Built on a decade of careers education practice
Over a career in HR, recruitment and careers education, I have interviewed hundreds of young people. What held so many back was not ability, qualifications or ambition. It was self-awareness. Capable young people often could not explain what they were good at, what motivated them or what they had to offer. They did not have the words to describe their own strengths.
The ones who did understand themselves stood out every time: more confident, clearer in their decisions, stronger in interviews, more themselves. That is why I created ThriveFit®, to give every young person that same self-understanding, and the words to express it, long before anyone asks them to choose.
Self-awareness is the foundation for every confident choice that follows, from subject options to career pathways.
When a young person can name their strengths, know what they value and see where they do their best work, the decisions ahead get clearer. They choose subjects with more confidence, weigh up sixth form, college, an apprenticeship or work experience knowing what suits them, and can explain their reasons. It gives them the words to describe themselves later, on an application or in an interview. That is real career readiness, and ThriveFit helps them build it early.
Questions schools ask
Does ThriveFit replace our careers programme?
No, and it isn't meant to. ThriveFit is a self-awareness tool that strengthens the benchmarks where knowing each young person matters: 3, 4, 6 and 8, plus the new focus on parents and carers. It sits alongside your stable programme, employer encounters and guidance.
How do young people complete it, and where?
However suits you. Run it in a tutor period, build it into a careers lesson, set it as homework on Google Classroom, Microsoft Teams or Satchel One, or use a code ahead of a one-to-one. Each young person completes their profile in about 15 minutes.
Can we evidence it for Compass+ and inspection?
Yes. Your dashboard shows who has completed their profile and when, and you can download it as a spreadsheet to log the activity against the Gatsby Benchmarks in Compass+ or your own tracker. It gives you a consistent, documented activity across the cohort.
Is student data handled safely?
Yes. ThriveFit is built to UK and EU data-protection standards and each profile belongs to the young person. We're happy to share our privacy documentation and a data-processing agreement for your records.
Can we trial it first?
Yes. Start with a free trial: you'll get one free profile to try it out and see the Support Guide before committing to a cohort.