Go Solo is for the participant considering working for themselves. It is Learning Path with one extra step at the front and a filter applied throughout — which is worth knowing, because it sets your expectations correctly.
The extra step: work type
Before industries, you choose between three ways of working for yourself:
- Freelancing — selling your time and skills to several clients
- Own Business — building something with employees or products
- Private Practice — professional practice in a regulated field
The participant's own results score all three, and the strongest is pre-selected and marked as matching their profile. Treat that as a starting point for the conversation, not a verdict — someone's assessment can favour freelancing while their circumstances make it impossible.
Your choice then filters the industries and occupations you see.
The rest of it
Identical to Learning Path: industries, then occupations, then analysis with skills, gaps and education routes. Occupations you add go to Suggestions on the Planning Board, tagged as coming from Go Solo.
Go Solo has no final comparison step, so the analysis is where it ends.
What it does not cover
This matters more here than in the other modes, because self-employment raises questions the tool does not answer.
Go Solo assesses fit for working independently — the occupation, the skills, the training. It does not assess or advise on:
- business skills, or whether they have them
- money — start-up capital, income while establishing, financial runway
- registration, legal form, tax or insurance
- licensing beyond what the occupation's own regulation records
- whether the market they are entering has room for them
None of these are in the results. They are the substance of most real self-employment conversations, so plan to have them yourself, with local sources.
Related
- The NexPlanner wizards — choosing between the modes
- Learning Path — the mode this is built on
- Working on the Planning Board