For schools
For career centers and for faculty teaching career readiness
Career centers
Every liberal arts student, coached like you had the staff for it
Unbracket is a guided reflection tool that helps liberal arts students discover the professional value of their coursework — and produces evidence-anchored, resume-ready language in the vocabulary employers actually screen for. One coach cannot run a 45-minute skills-discovery session with every sophomore. Unbracket can.
What students get
A conversational, 20–30 minute reflection flow — eight questions about work they've already done, not a form about jobs they haven't had. The output is a skills profile in which every claim is anchored to the student's own evidence, plus resume lines they can paste, organized by the competencies entry-level postings screen for.
What your office gets
Capacity and early reach — every student gets the structured session your staffing ratio can't offer, including the sophomores and juniors your staff can't reach before senior year; coaches start appointments from a completed profile instead of a blank resume.
A cohort snapshot, not a surveillance feed — at the end of the term you receive group totals for your cohort: sign-ups and completions, class-year and major mix, skills surfaced per profile, and a before-and-after confidence measure; small counts are hidden so no total can identify a person; you never see an individual student, their answers, or their profile; demographic breakdowns are unavailable by design because Unbracket doesn't collect race, first-generation status, or gender.
Competency language you can use — Unbracket's skills taxonomy is mapped to the NACE career-readiness competencies; pilot partners receive how the cohort's skills spread across those competencies in the end-of-term snapshot.
Built to be defensible to your AI policy committee
Unbracket inserts a bracketed placeholder instead of inventing details: a number or qualifier the student didn't state appears as a bracketed placeholder for the student to fill. Updates are tested to ensure Unbracket reflects students' actual inputs before it ships. It is bias-tested as a release gate: paired synthetic profiles differing only in name, second-language phrasing, disclosed disability, or transfer path must produce equivalent output before any version goes live. We share the test protocol and results with pilot partners.
Pilots
Pilot partners get one semester free (regular pricing $500–800/month), a class sign-up code so students create their own accounts and own their data, a named point of contact, a mid-semester check-in, and an end-of-term debrief with the cohort snapshot and our bias-testing summary.
For faculty
A career readiness curriculum for liberal arts seminars
Your students can think, research, and write. What many of them can't yet do is describe those skills in language employers recognize, and most career advice resources won't teach them.
This is a free, classroom-ready curriculum that teaches it. Three sequenced 75-minute lessons take a student from "I don't know what I'll do with this degree" to someone who has the beginnings of a professional network, a skills vocabulary drawn from real job postings, and an informational interview request in the works. Each lesson is a full plan — objectives, faculty prep guide, a minute-by-minute class flow, and student handouts — built for an upper-level humanities or interdisciplinary seminar. Use one, use all three, or adapt them to your context.
Who this is for
Faculty who want to fold career readiness into a seminar without turning it into a career-services class, and career centers looking for a substantive, sequenced program to run with departments. The lessons assume no career-advising background; the faculty-prep section in each one prepares you to teach it.
The three lessons
Lesson 1 — LinkedIn as networking infrastructure. Students reframe LinkedIn from a job-application site to a place to build relationships, fix five high-leverage profile elements, and identify five to ten professionals to follow and engage with. Includes a search handout for finding the right people.
Download: LinkedIn Networking lesson plan (PDF) · Student version: How to network on LinkedIn as a liberal arts student
Lesson 2 — Translating academic skills into professional language. Students mine real job postings for skills vocabulary, break down what they did to produce a piece of academic work, and match the two — building out the LinkedIn Skills section from evidence rather than guesswork. Includes a translation worksheet.
Download: Skills Translation lesson plan (PDF) · Student version: Build your own skills glossary from real job postings
Lesson 3 — The informational interview. Students learn the difference between an informational interview and a job request, write context-rich outreach using a five-part structure, and prepare questions that draw on the skills vocabulary from lesson 2. Includes an outreach worksheet, a question bank, and a tracker.
Download: Informational Interview lesson plan (PDF) · Student version: How to ask for an informational interview
How Unbracket fits
Lesson 2 teaches students to translate their own academic work into professional language by hand. That is exactly the task Unbracket automates — it asks about a student's real experiences, names the skills inside them in recruiter-recognizable terms, and leaves a bracketed placeholder wherever the student needs to provide additional details. The lesson and the tool teach the same method; the tool does it faster and more thoroughly for students who want that. You can see a sample profile to judge whether it fits your students.
These lessons are free to use and adapt in your teaching, with attribution. If you use them, I'd love to hear how it went! If you want someone else to teach one or all three lessons, get in touch at hello@unbracket.app.