Realistic pathways to employment, at scale for your students.
Soso is an AI career coaching platform for South African students and graduates. We offer a structured pilot that extends career support to every student in your cohort, with clear reporting and POPIA-aligned data handling.
Career support is stretched across large cohorts.
Many students, particularly at under-resourced institutions, arrive with little prior career guidance. Career centres work hard but cannot offer one-to-one time to every student. Generic online tools often ignore South African realities such as affordability, regional inequality, and the digital divide.
Staff-to-Student Ratios
Advising teams face tens of thousands of enrolled students across distributed campuses, limiting personalized advisory bandwidth to a fraction of graduating cohorts.
Unequal Baseline Readiness
First-generation learners often enter final-year qualifications without prior workplace exposure, CV structuring knowledge, or professional interview practice.
The Digital Divide
Tools requiring desktop computers and continuous high-bandwidth internet leave students behind. Interventions must run smoothly on smartphones with accessible data footprints.
A structured pilot, built around your students.
Pre-Employment programme
Guided career readiness modules that help enrolled students translate coursework, academic projects, and campus leadership into employer-aligned competencies before graduation.
Post-Employment programme
Targeted transition coaching supporting recent alumni navigating probation, junior professional responsibilities, workplace communication, and early-career progression.
CV and resume audit
Standardized analysis across formatting, ATS readability, clarity of evidence, and South African workplace conventions, delivering specific, actionable revision steps.
Mobile and WhatsApp access
A mobile-first experience accessible through standard phone browsers and WhatsApp, ensuring students without laptops or high-bandwidth home connections stay engaged.
Your career team stays in charge of the relationship with students. Soso extends the coaching between appointments.
A 12-week pilot in four phases.
A structured deployment designed to fit neatly within an academic semester without creating administrative overhead for existing career office staff.
Onboarding
Baseline readiness assessment and first CV audit.
- •Cohort orientation & student onboarding
- •Initial baseline employability score
- •Automated first CV audit benchmark
Core coaching
Weekly sessions and CV and cover letter revisions.
- •Self-paced weekly AI coaching modules
- •Iterative CV re-drafting & feedback
- •Role-specific cover letter structuring
Applied practice
Mock interviews and live applications.
- •Simulated graduate interview practice
- •Real-world graduate vacancy alignment
- •Application packaging & review
Review
Exit assessment, outcomes report, and scale-up decision.
- •Cohort exit readiness assessment
- •Comprehensive 12-week outcomes report
- •Executive institutional scale-up review
Targets are agreed with your team before launch.
Clear reporting from the start.
Institutional partners receive structured documentation designed for academic boards, career services directors, and student success committees.
A weekly engagement snapshot
Aggregated participation metrics tracking active students, module completions, and session volumes without individual identifiable exposure.
Mid-point report at Week 6
Progress assessment measuring cohort momentum, engagement bottlenecks, common skill deficits, and mid-flight adjustment recommendations.
Final outcomes report at Week 12
Comprehensive institutional summary of employability readiness deltas, CV diagnostic improvements, and self-reported student progress.
Six-month follow-up with consenting students
Longitudinal destination tracking for students who opted in, capturing graduate transition indicators and employment status updates.
Aggregated data in spreadsheet form
Clean, anonymised tabular extracts formatted for institutional analytics, internal reporting to DVCs, and DHET or council reporting.
A handover session for your career team
Structured briefing and Q&A session with your career services practitioners to review findings and equip your advisers with cohort insights.
Institutional Reporting Methodology
Review our evaluation framework, metric definitions, and cohort data parameters.
Built for POPIA compliance.
South African higher education institutions operate under strict governance frameworks. Soso aligns with the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) Act 4 of 2013, ensuring student privacy and institutional risk mitigation at every step.
Institutional Data Safeguards & Operator Commitments
- Your institution remains the responsible party under POPIA
- Soso acts as operator under a signed operator agreement
- students give informed consent for each use of their data
- students can access, correct, or delete their information
- individual results are shared only with student consent
- we do not sell student data or use it for advertising
- we disclose AI sub-processors before the pilot starts
- breach notification to you without undue delay
Information Officer: [Information Officer name]
Direct institutional governance inquiries: [partnerships email]
Designed for institutions like yours.
Universities
Extend career readiness support to students across your campuses and programmes.
Universities of Technology
Extend career readiness support to students across your campuses and programmes.
TVET colleges
Extend career readiness support to students across your campuses and programmes.
Pilot terms.
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Institutional pilot agreements are structured directly with your university or TVET procurement team, ensuring transparent accounting, DHET alignment, and no direct costs or paywalls for participating students.
Request a pilot conversation
Discuss cohort parameters, timelines, and reporting requirements with our institutional partnerships lead.
Institutional FAQ
Key operational, technical, and compliance considerations for university and TVET leadership.
12 weeks, with reporting at Weeks 6 and 12 and a six-month follow-up.