What It Is
Reputo is a career guide that starts by reading one job as a single report. It links comparing whether the job fits you, making a preparation plan and spending an hour with someone who does the work into one path. The goal is to turn a job someone vaguely admires into a route they can actually prepare for. It aims at the space between a job encyclopedia and a career counseling service.
The Problem
Students may know a job title without knowing what skills and experience the work actually demands or where to start preparing. Existing career information falls short in three ways: it is abstract like a job dictionary, it skips reality in favor of success stories, or it sits behind the high price of paid admissions consulting.
Reputo ties reports, matching and real-world checks into one flow to reduce that anxiety. You read one job to the end, narrow down the candidates that fit you, and check directly with someone who does the work.
Who It Is For
- Middle school, high school and university students: people exploring a wide range of careers who want concrete next steps instead of vague ideas
- Early career explorers: people interested in a role who do not know what to prepare first
- Parents, teachers and mentors: people who need material they can explain to a student and organized advice
- Schools and academies: institutions that want to give many students a chance to check a job with a practitioner
- Students in other languages: people who want to read about the same job in their own language and under their own country's system
Core Flow
- Browse fields: start from broad categories such as technology, business, healthcare, finance and design.
- Read the report: fit, roadmap, study, reality, skills and resources run on one page.
- Narrow down: use career matching to pick candidates, compare two jobs side by side, and check entry requirements.
- Plan: move roadmap items into a checklist and add a note to each.
- Check with a practitioner: ask questions in a Reality Session or spend 60 minutes doing real work, then get feedback on what you submit.
It is not a one-visit product. Interests narrowed by the real-world check feed back into browsing, so the service stays with the whole decision process.
Key Features
- Six-part report: what fits and what is hard, school and university, the roadmap into the field, majors and qualifications, the reality of the work, four skills that decide results beyond certificates, and books and courses to start with, all on one page. Every job's report is free.
- Five languages written per country: Korean, English, Japanese, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese are not straight translations. For pharmacists, the Korean report follows the Pharmaceutical Affairs Act and the national exam board, the US report follows the PharmD and the NAPLEX, and the Japanese report follows the six-year program and the PMD Act. Company examples differ by language too.
- Career matching: write freely about what you are good at, what you dislike and where you are now, and it picks jobs that may fit.
- Job comparison and entry requirements: put two jobs side by side and check what it takes to get in.
- Preparation plan: turn the roadmap into a checklist with a note on each item.
- Reality Session: ask a practitioner, try 60 minutes of real work, and get feedback on your submission. The feedback covers the approach as well as the result.
- Records without sign-up: saved jobs, recently viewed jobs and roadmap progress stay in the browser and pick up where you left off.
Product Decisions
- The model only picks; people write the sentences: the reasons career matching shows are sentences written by hand in each job report. The judging model only answers with numbers saying which sentences to show. There is no fit score, and what you type is not kept on the server. This draws a line against showing generated sentences in front of a decision as weighty as a career.
- Real-world checks only for jobs the operator does: Reality Session is open for two jobs only, software engineer and founder. Without doing the work yourself, you cannot vouch for the quality of a 60-minute trial.
- Reading stays open: reports, comparisons, entry requirements and roadmaps are readable regardless of subscription. Lowering the barrier to career information is the reason the service exists.
- Nothing is deleted when a subscription ends: notes and checks stay after the subscription ends.
Revenue Model
- Reputo Plus: $5 a month or $50 a year. The subscription unlocks tools that keep records in your account: saving checklist progress, item notes, syncing saved lists across devices, career matching and Reality Session requests.
- School and academy bundles: institutions can request Reality Sessions as a group. Send the number of students and the jobs, and a reply explains the format and cost.
- Affiliate links and ads: limited to book and course links inside free reports and the notice shown once when leaving for an external site.
Retrospective
- What worked: separating the matching verdict from sentence writing made it possible to put matching into a career service.
- What I would change: launching five languages at once made review heavy. Stabilizing Korean and English first, then adding Japanese and Chinese in turn, would have been safer.
Next Hypotheses
- Whether more jobs can open for Reality Session without losing the quality of the trial.
- Whether school and academy bundles become a bigger sales channel than individual subscriptions.
- Collecting the fields where matching finds no candidates to decide which reports to write next.