Case Study · 2025
CareerPilot — AI Career Assistant
A production-ready AI web app that helps students and early-career professionals become more employable: ATS-focused CV review, role-based career roadmaps, AI career chat, and role-specific interview preparation.
CareerPilot — AI Career Assistant — 2025
The Problem
Brilliant students fail at the door: their CV never reaches a human
Most rejection happens before a human reads anything — ATS filters drop CVs for formatting, missing keywords, and structure. And once past the filter, students face interviews with no structured way to prepare.
- ✗ATS software silently rejects poorly formatted CVs
- ✗Students don't know which skills to learn for a target role
- ✗Interview prep materials are scattered and generic
- ✗Career guidance is priced out of student reach
Why this solution
One focused tool per employability stage, wrapped in a clean chat UX
Rather than another generic chatbot, CareerPilot ships four focused tools — CV review, roadmap generator, interview prep, career chat — each with a structured prompt layer tuned to its job. Frontend-first, mobile-first, accessible.
- ✓CV review tuned for ATS rules — actionable fixes, not vague advice
- ✓Roadmaps customised by role AND experience level (3–6 month plans)
- ✓Interview questions per role with model answers
- ✓ChatGPT-style UI keeps interaction familiar
How it works
01
Paste CV
User pastes CV text; the AI layer reviews against ATS principles
02
Feedback
Actionable, prioritised improvement suggestions returned
03
Roadmap
Role + level → structured 3–6 month learning plan
04
Interview mode
Role-specific questions with best-practice answers and tips
Challenges I faced
⚠️ Generic AI responses
→ fixed: Prompt layer per tool with structured output templates
⚠️ Cold-start UX
→ fixed: Clear tool cards so users know exactly what to do first
⚠️ Mobile-first or nothing
→ fixed: Built mobile-first — students live on phones, like I did
Results
4
AI tools in one product
ATS
tuned CV feedback
3–6
month roadmap generator
Live
deployed on Render
🧰 Built with
💡 What it taught me
Structured prompts beat clever prompts. And meeting students on mobile-first UX isn't a nicety — in Nigeria it IS the platform.