Improving

Positiveoutcomes

on the path to work!

Guiding local authority, university, college and other careers services with scaleable, evidence based interventions you can actually deliver.

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You’re being asked to

Personalise.Scale.Prove.

  • “We can’t simply give everyone more one-to-one time.”
  • “With the support in place. Why are some people still not progressing?”
  • “How can we evidence progress before a job, course or placement?”
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Every service user’s

Life contextshapes whatworks

I’m Holly, Founder of ShinyMe.

A Level 7-qualified career development practitioner, QCD, published researcher on careers innovation, and TEDx speaker, with lived experience of social mobility.

I know that when you want to provide enough depth and personalisation for diverse people their confidence, identity, health, circumstances, literacy, intersectionality, criminal record, opportunities and past experiences can all affect what progress occurs.

ShinyMe focuses on the confidence piece of moving closer to the labour market: bringing specialist career-development interventions to the things that can sit underneath whether someone engages, adapts, makes decisions and moves forward sustainably.

Start by building

Confidence with evidencenot encouragement

Everything at ShinyMe is built around our modern, inclusive, evidence-based method:

Meaningful Work

Recognise what you bring, and where you could belong.

not just a job title

Find a direction by using your whole life experience to uncover strengths, abilities, and growth opportunities.

Impactful Story

Discover how to stand out and be yourself in work.

not just a CV

Communicate your value with an evidence bank of stories, and micro-experiments to gain feedback on progress.

Collective Power

Turn possibility into real progress at the right pace.

not just my resilience

Map realistic stepping stones, support and resources to test, adapt, and keep moving during setbacks and uncertainty.

Our services applying the competence–confidence loop: micro-actions build competence, feedback strengthens belief, and supported real-world experience creates evidence for the next step.

Put themissing piecein place!

where progress is stalling :)

Explore Our Services
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Choose from fun, ready-to-run group workshops, targeted 1:1 support, digital tools, service reviews and staff training.

All designed to work with your team to identify who it’s for, build interest and make referral easy, with clear messaging and practical tools your advisers can use.

What if you could

Spot the gap earlier

Don’t wait for the outcomes to find out progress has stalled.

CV support, training and mentoring can all be available, but without enough work confidence, people may still struggle to use them.

That means good provision goes underused and meaningful early progress stays invisible.

Make work readinessvisible

before the final outcome!

Ensuring the people you serve are increasingly able to:

· recognise what they bring · engage with opportunities · make decisions · take realistic next steps · adapt when things change

So more people keep moving towards work, education, or training, and evidence progress along the way.

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