About Soso Career AI
AI career coaching for students and early professionals (0-3 years) • CV audits for all career stages
Our Mission
We believe every South African student and early-career professional, from any university, UoT, or TVET college, deserves the tools and guidance to build a meaningful, globally competitive career. Our mission is to transform how young professionals understand and communicate their own value, using AI-powered coaching grounded in the EPPGS™ methodology.
Getting your first role is just the beginning. For professionals in their first three years, Soso continues coaching you through growth, promotion, and building a career that lasts. And for everyone at any stage, from students to CEOs, our Resume Audit service provides the same rigorous EPPGS™ analysis to help you understand and articulate your professional value.
The EPPGS™ Framework
Soso Career AI is built around a proprietary methodology called the EPPGS™: Employment Preparation Programme for Students and Graduates. It's a structured, 5-pillar framework that covers every dimension of your professional value:
Most career advice tells you to fix your CV or practise interview answers. The EPPGS™ goes deeper. It maps who you are professionally, across all five dimensions, so you can walk into any opportunity knowing exactly what you bring.
- •Hard Skills: Your measurable, certifiable technical abilities. The things you can do and prove: Python, AutoCAD, PMP, Boiler Making, Financial Modelling, and more.
- •Essential Skills: Your interpersonal strengths: how you communicate, your emotional intelligence (EQ), and your ability to work effectively in a team to get things done.
- •Specialist Knowledge: The domain expertise and informed insight that differentiates you from everyone else in your field. The things you know that others don't.
- •Operational Competencies: The specialist software, tools, and systems you work with that prove you can execute in a real workplace environment.
- •Education: Your formal qualifications and any additional learning (courses, certifications, self-study) that gives you a competitive advantage over other candidates.
The programme is structured into two phases: Phase 1 (Pre-Employment), for students and graduates entering the job market, covering value proposition, CV writing, job hunting strategy, and interview preparation. And Phase 2 (Post-Employment), for professionals in their first 3 years of work, covering how to thrive in role, build a professional network, and position yourself for promotion.
Who Soso Is For
EPPGS™ Career Coaching Programme
Built for South African students from their 2nd-last year of university through all postgraduate studies (Honours, Masters, MBA, PhD), and early-career professionals with 0-3 years of experience. Whether you're preparing for your first role, navigating your first job, or positioning for your first promotion, Soso coaches you through every phase of early career development.
From any institution: universities, Universities of Technology, or TVET colleges. We meet you where you are and guide you to where you want to be, locally or internationally.
EPPGS™ Resume / CV Audit
For everyone, from students writing their first CV to senior executives and entrepreneurs refining their professional narrative. The five-pillar EPPGS™ framework works at every career stage because it's grounded in what makes you valuable, not where you are in your journey.
Whether you're a BCom finalist, a mid-career manager, or a CEO, the audit reveals what's working, what's missing, and how to make your CV stand out in your target market.
One thing we all share: Where you studied doesn't limit what you can achieve. The EPPGS™ framework works with every qualification and background, because it's built around what you know and what you can do, not just where you've been.
Our Values
- •Excellence: The EPPGS™ methodology is held to the highest standard, and so is every coaching interaction
- •Accessibility: Career development should be affordable and available to every South African student, regardless of institution or background
- •Holistic Development: A career is more than a CV. We address the complete professional identity across all five EPPGS™ pillars
- •Continuous Growth: Getting the job is the beginning. We coach you through the entire journey, from first application to first promotion and beyond