Give the people you serve a sharper job search.
They already have places to find jobs. Give them a way to decide which jobs are worth their time.
Rolespect is free to every job seeker and it stays free. Organizations that serve job seekers can run a 90 day pilot: a partner link, a live onboarding session, a guide with your name on it, and usage counts at day 30, 60 and 90.
Rolespect is a free job search field kit. It checks whether a posting is real, tests it against the person's own rules, checks the resume against the posting line by line, helps them reach a person instead of another portal, and prepares the interview. Every role ends with a plain next step: Apply, Investigate First, or Pass. No account, and nothing a person enters leaves their browser.
You do not have to replace anything.
Keep LinkedIn, Indeed and ZipRecruiter. Keep your resume tools and your counselors. The people you serve are rarely short of places to search. They are short of a way to sort what they find. Rolespect is the step between finding a job and spending an evening applying for it.
Find a posting.
LinkedIn, Indeed, ZipRecruiter, employer career pages. Your people already do this, and Scout points them to more.
Decide whether it is worth it.
- Is it real?
- Does it clear my rules?
- Does my resume answer it?
- Is it worth my evening?
Organizations that help people find work.
Outplacement firms
Your coaches get more out of every session when the client arrives with a board of real roles, scored, instead of a pile of links.
University career centers
Students and alumni get the same method your counselors teach, on their phone, between appointments.
Workforce boards and job centers
A tool you can hand to every walk in customer without an account to create or a license to assign.
Employers running a layoff
Something concrete to give the people leaving, on the day it matters, that asks nothing of them.
Nonprofit associations
A member benefit for sector staff in transition, built by someone who spent twenty five years in the sector.
Recruiters and job boards
Rolespect does not take money from anyone with a stake in which jobs a person applies to. That is what keeps its verdicts honest.
Four things, for 90 days.
A partner linkSet up in week one
One address with your code on it, like rolespect.com/?org=yourprogram. Everyone who arrives through it is counted as yours. Nobody signs up, and nobody has to tell you they used it.
A live onboarding session60 minutes, video or in person in Houston
I walk your group through one real posting from Scout to Apply: is it real, is it worth an evening, does the resume answer it, and who to write to. People leave with the app on their phone and one role already decided.
A guide with your name on itPrintable, yours to keep
A short walkthrough of the six stations carrying your program name and your staff contact, with your partner link on it. Hand it out at the session, put it in a welcome packet, leave it on the table at the job center.
A monthly usage reportDay 30, day 60, day 90
How many people opened Rolespect through your link, which stations they used, and how many roles they decided on and applied to. Counts, trends and a plain reading of what they say. Nothing else.
You get counts. You never get a person.
For your program this is a feature. You do not become the keeper of anyone's job search.
- ✓How many people opened Rolespect through your link
- ✓Which stations they used
- ✓How many roles they decided on, and how many they applied to
- ✓A report at day 30, 60 and 90, with a plain reading of the trend
- ✕Names, emails or a roster
- ✕Resumes or career files
- ✕Job targets, notes or application history
- ✕Any one person's decisions or searches
- ✓The career file stays on their device. Resumes, targets, notes and the board live in the person's own browser. There is no server holding them, so there is nothing to hand over.
- ✓No account, no list. Nobody gives a name or an email to use it, so no roster of your people exists anywhere.
- ✓The partner code names you, not them. It rides along with the same anonymous counts every visitor already sends. It never carries anything a person typed.
- ✓The numbers are a floor. Some browsers block analytics, so real use runs higher than the report. I will say that on every report rather than let you find it later.
The full account of what leaves the browser, and what does not, is on the privacy page.
Light on your staff by design.
No accounts to create. No licenses to assign. No career files to store, and no individual searches to watch. Your staff send a link and book a room.
What I do
- ✓Week 1. A 30 minute kickoff. We set your code, your guide and a date for the session.
- ✓Week 2. The onboarding session, and the guide in your hands.
- ✓Day 30 and day 60. The usage report, with what I would change.
- ✓Day 90. A 30 minute review. Keep going, change the shape, or stop.
What I ask of you
- ✓Send the link to the people you serve, in whatever you already send them.
- ✓One staff contact who can book the room and answer an email.
- ✓Honest feedback from your staff and your people, good or bad.
- ✓Thirty minutes at day 90.
Already using Teal, Huntr or Careerflow? Keep it.
Those tools help people organize a search, build and tailor resumes, and track applications. They are good at it. Rolespect does a different job. It asks whether a role deserves the application in the first place, and it works from the person's real record rather than writing one for them.
Use those tools to work the search. Use Rolespect to decide what deserves the work.
The honest side by side, including where the other tools do more, is on the comparison page.
The job seeker pays nothing. During the pilot or after it.
Your organization pays a flat fee for the 90 day pilot. The tier is set by how many job seekers your program plans to offer Rolespect to. You tell me the number, the one your funders already ask you for. The usage reports at day 30, 60 and 90 show how many actually used it. You pay for the pilot, not for participant accounts, so nobody has to decide which 50 people get access.
90 day pilot, up to 50 job seekers
A single cohort, a small program, or one job center.
90 day pilot, up to 150 job seekers
A full caseload, several cohorts, or a career center's active students.
90 day pilot, up to 400 job seekers
A workforce board, an association's members, or a layoff across sites.
Every tier includes all four things above: the partner link, the live session, the guide with your name on it, and the three usage reports.
- Growing during the pilot. If you move past your tier, you pay the difference to the next one. Nothing else changes.
- More than 400. Write to me and I will price it to fit.
- After the 90 days. We read the reports together and set a 12 month price: four quarters at your tier, less 15 percent. That is $5,100 for Starter, $10,200 for Program and $17,000 for Network.
What the fee never buys: placement in the results, a thumb on which jobs Scout suggests, or access to anyone's data. None of that is for sale.
Bradley Wendling. Twenty five years in nonprofit operations.
Fourteen years at the North Texas Food Bank, where I founded Agency University, a free training program for partner agency staff. Then the San Antonio Food Bank and Meals on Wheels Central Texas. I have run programs that had to show a funder what happened, so the report you get is the report I would want.
I built Rolespect while running my own search, in Houston. More about me and what the app refuses to do.
Start a pilot.
Give one cohort a way to decide, for 90 days. Tell me who you serve, roughly how many people, and when a session could happen. I answer every note myself.
brad@wendlingconsulting.com