Mike's CareerTech Toolkit
Student interactives, staff utilities and embeddable widgets — built in-house, wired to live data, and ready to drop into pathways, SharePoint or a lecture theatre.
For students
Interactives you can hand straight to a student
For studentsSunderland CV Builder
Full CV builder on the Sunderland brand — guided sections, live preview, multiple templates and a clean PDF export. Installable, and works offline once it's loaded.
/CV-MakerBuild a CV Career Explorer
Searchable directory of graduate roles, entry routes and typical employers, driven by the shared careers dataset.
/activities/career-explorerExplore Visa and Career Explorer
For international students: pick a career to see the UK visas for working in it, the salary each stage needs and which licensed sponsors are advertising it now.
/activities/visa-career-explorerExplore Salary Explorer
Regional and national pay benchmarks for any job title, pulled live from the Adzuna jobs feed.
/activities/salary-explorerView data CV Verb Roulette
Gamified slot machine that swaps tired, passive CV phrasing for something with weight behind it.
/activities/cv-verb-rouletteSpin STAR Flashcards
3D flip cards that walk students through structuring a competency interview answer, one prompt at a time.
/activities/star-flashcardsFlip Idea Stress Test
Pressure-tests a business idea against demand, competition and cost, then hands back a written summary to submit. Successor to the old Explore & Test wizard.
/tools/stress-test-generatorStress test Career Pathway Mapper
Visual node tree linking degree disciplines to real industry destinations and the skills each one asks for. Mapping logic is still being validated against the current course list.
/activities/career-mapperMap pathway Sector Skills Radar
Chart.js radar plotting a student's self-assessment against 2026 sector benchmarks. Benchmark figures still need a sign-off pass before this goes to students.
/activities/skills-radarAssess SDG Explorer
Links career choices to the UN Sustainable Development Goals for students who want purpose-led options.
/activities/sdg-explorerExplore CV Prompter
Step-by-step prompts that turn a vague bit of experience into a sharp, targeted CV statement.
/activities/cv-prompterWrite The Decision Game
Whole-room classroom sim: one new venture, six decisions, and the class votes on every move.
/bizsimRun session Start-up Arcade Kiosk
Full-screen attract-mode game for fairs and open days — quick enterprise rounds ending in a sign-up hand-off.
/activities/start_up_arcade_kioskLaunch kiosk Staff & admin
Internal utilities — not for student circulation
Staff & adminThe Enterprise Forge
Four-part business planning suite for enterprise coaching — investor-goal triage up front, then the specialist modules.
/tools/ecOpen the Forge Decision Tree Logic Validator
Walks every branch of routing-data.json so staff can test node pathways and flag broken or dead-end logic.
/tools/logic-validatorTest logic Decision Tree Editor
Rewrite the triage questions, options and outcomes without touching a line of code — then export the JSON.
/tools/decision-tree-editorEdit content Intelligence Dash
Central metrics hub pulling HESA and LEO data together for outcome tracking and reporting.
/tools/staff-dashboardOpen dash Email Template Builder
Assembles table-safe, on-brand HTML emails block by block, ready to paste straight into the mail platform.
/tools/email-builderBuild email Custom Pane Builder
Outputs the HTML and Apache Velocity needed for TargetConnect dashboard panes and banners.
/tools/custompane-builderBuild pane Event Builder
Fast generator for branded HTML event listings, formatted for the platform's editor.
/tools/event-builderBuild event Degree ROI
Five-year salary trajectory visualiser for assessing subject-level financial return.
/tools/degree-roiCalculate Spark Weighting
Tune and recalculate the weightings behind the student engagement pathways.
/tools/spark-weighting-toolAdjust QR Code Maker
High-resolution QR generator for print, pull-ups and on-campus signposting.
/tools/qr-makerGenerate Velocity Tag Builder
Show different content to different people based on their tags — builds the Velocity markup for you, ready to paste into TargetConnect.
/tools/velocity-tag-builderBuild a tag Hostless widget builders
Build an activity, copy a link — there is nothing to host
Hostless widget buildersHostless Widgets — the hub
Start here. Six builders that turn your content into a shareable link or a paste-ready block — the content travels inside the link, so there is no server, no upload and no copy to keep in sync.
/tools/ctt/hostlessOpen the hub Flip Card Link Builder
Build a set of two-sided flip cards and get a link you can embed anywhere.
/tools/ctt/builders/flipcard-link-builderBuild cards Do’s & Don’ts Link Builder
Build a do’s and don’ts flip grid — good for CV, interview and etiquette guidance.
/tools/ctt/builders/dosdonts-link-builderBuild a grid Guess & Reveal Link Builder
Make students commit to an answer before the truth appears — built for myth-busting salary and job-market claims.
/tools/ctt/builders/reveal-link-builderBuild a reveal Self-Marking Quiz Builder
A two-choice quiz that marks itself, with no JavaScript at all — paste it straight into a pathway activity.
/tools/ctt/builders/quiz-builderBuild a quiz Tabs & Accordions Builder
Expanding sections that never jump the page height, generated as plain HTML and CSS.
/tools/ctt/builders/tabs-accordions-builderBuild sections Pure CSS Modal Maker
Pop-up modals that use no JavaScript at all — safe for SharePoint, Canvas and the careers platform.
/tools/ctt/builders/modal-makerBuild a modal Embeddable widgets
Drop-in iframes for SharePoint, pathways and portals
Embeddable widgetsVacancies Feed
Live tabbed job board, styled to sit inside a SharePoint page or student portal.
/widgets/vacanciesGet code Industry News Ticker
Standalone version of the Guardian-powered ticker running at the top of this page.
/widgets/industry-newsGet code Coach Availability
Live drop-in times for City and St Peter's campuses, synced from the coaching rota.
/widgets/coach-timeGet code Event Calendar
Month-view calendar of upcoming careers and enterprise events.
/widgets/event-calendarGet code Events Feed
Compact list feed of upcoming employer sessions and workshops.
/widgets/eventsGet code Start-Up Events Feed
Horizontally scrolling card feed for enterprise and start-up sessions.
/widgets/startup-eventsGet code Decision Tree
The student-facing triage tree, embeddable anywhere. Content comes from the editor above.
/widgets/decision-treeGet code Graduate Fair Banner
Interactive campaign banner for the Graduate Recruitment & Placement Fair 2026.
/widgets/banner-demoGet code Ignition Events Banner
“Start the year with a Spark” banner for the TargetConnect custom panes, pulling the next Ignition event live from the events RSS feed.
/widgets/ignition-bannerGet code Showcase & talks
Presentation-ready
Showcase & talksPrimary Showreel
The main presenter reel — student successes and enterprise founders from across the university, built for a big screen.
/showreel/v2.htmlLaunch presenter Founders Wall
Interactive wall of Sunderland's student and alumni founders.
/showreel/index.htmlView wall Showreel Banner
Inline banner version of the founders reel, sized to sit inside a pathway page.
/showreel/banner.htmlGet code Key User Group Talk
"How to build tools without knowing how" — the full deck, with speaker notes alongside.
/talkPresent Build Your Own — Guide
Plain-English companion handout covering HTML, CSS, JSON and APIs for non-developers.
/talk/guide.htmlRead guide Talk — Speaker Notes
The presenter script for the Key User Group talk, laid out slide by slide for a second screen or a printout.
/talk/notes.htmlRead notes Careers Fair Countdown
Save-the-date countdown to the next careers fair — the worked example from the talk, and a drop-in banner in its own right.
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