Figuring out your next career move can be overwhelming. Are you qualified? What roles fit your experience? What direction should you take? Wisedoc's AI Career Guidance feature takes the guesswork out of career planning. By analyzing your resume data and matching it with live job descriptions, Wisedoc helps you discover relevant job roles and visualizes your career trajectory using a Sankey diagram. In this blog, we’ll walk you through how it works, who it helps, and how you can use it to navigate your career with clarity and confidence.

Contents

1. Why Career Path Discovery Is So Hard
2. What Is Wisedoc AI Career Guidance?
3. How It Works: From Resume to Sankey Diagram
4. Why It’s More Than a Job Matching Tool
5. The Power of the Sankey Diagram
6. Use Cases: Students, Professionals, Career Changers
7. What Makes Wisedoc Different from Job Boards
8. How to Interpret the Career Guidance Results
9. How to Use Insights to Plan Your Next Steps
10. Bonus: Suggested Skills and Certifications
11. Future Plans for AI Career Guidance
12. Final Thoughts

Today’s job seekers face:

• Information overload from dozens of job boards
• Confusion over what roles they’re qualified for
• A lack of personalized guidance
• Constant shifts in demand due to AI, remote work, and automation

Even if you have a great resume, you might be asking:

“What else can I do with my background?”

Wisedoc solves that problem with AI-driven career insight.

Wisedoc’s AI Career Guidance tool is a built-in feature that:

• Analyzes your resume
• Matches it with real job descriptions
• Identifies a list of potential job roles based on your profile
• Visualizes your current and potential career pathways using a Sankey diagram

It's like having a career coach, data scientist, and recruiter rolled into one.

Here’s what happens when you use the tool:

1. Upload or create your resume in Wisedoc
2. Input job description(s) you’re interested in—or let the tool scrape current openings
3. The AI parses:
   • Skills (both hard and soft)
   • Keywords
   • Experience timeline
   • Job context
4. It then matches your profile to job roles across industries and titles
5. A Sankey diagram is generated, showing:
   • Your current role
   • Branches into potential future roles
   • Skill overlaps and gaps

🧠 It's not just "you could be a project manager"—it shows why and what you'll need to get there.

Unlike job boards, Wisedoc isn’t just matching you to current openings—it’s:

• Mapping your career evolution
• Surfacing roles you may not have considered
• Identifying hidden opportunities based on transferable skills
• Suggesting lateral moves, vertical growth, or cross-functional shifts

📌 Whether you’re stuck in your current role or exploring something new, this tool offers direction.

A Sankey diagram is a flow chart that shows the relationship between data points using weighted connections.

In Wisedoc’s version:

• Your current role is on the left
• Possible future job roles appear on the right
• The thickness of each flow represents strength of match
• Color coding highlights skill overlap, growth potential, or alignment gaps

👁️ Visually, it’s easy to see:

• “I could become a Product Manager or a UX Researcher.”
• “Both roles need stakeholder communication, but I lack Agile experience.”

🧑‍🎓 For students or recent grads

Discover what roles your academic projects, internships, or coursework best align with.

👩‍💼 For early-career professionals

See how your current job can lead to senior positions—or into new departments.

🔁 For career changers

Identify where your past experience intersects with new industries or tech stacks.

Once your Sankey diagram is generated:

• Start with the widest lines—these are the strongest matches
• Hover over roles to see:
  • Key skills required
  • Overlap score with your resume
  • Additional qualifications (if needed)
• Save or export potential job paths for later review

Use this as a career map, not just a suggestion list.

Your diagram is a starting point. Now you can:

• Update your resume to target the most aligned roles
• Start learning new skills that unlock higher-matching roles>
• Apply directly to jobs using Wisedoc’s resume versioning tools
• Use Wisedoc's AI Cover Letter Generator to tailor each application

🎯 Treat the guidance as data-backed confidence—you know where you fit and how to get there.

Each role in your diagram comes with:

• Recommended upskilling paths
• Popular online certifications
• In-demand tools or platforms for the industry

Examples:

• Want to go from Data Analyst to Data Scientist? Learn Python + TensorFlow.
• Moving from Teaching to Learning Design? Pick up tools like Articulate or Canva.

📌 Wisedoc even links to course providers when possible—so you can start learning right away.

Wisedoc is continuing to expand this feature with:

• Career goal simulation: “I want to be a VP of Marketing in 5 years—what's my path?”
• Company-specific role matching
• Real-time salary insights
• AI mentorship suggestions based on your career path

🚀 The goal: Turn every resume into a roadmap, not just a document.

The hardest part of career growth isn’t doing the work—it’s knowing where to go next.

Wisedoc’s AI Career Guidance takes your real-world experience and translates it into actionable direction, job role clarity, and visual proof of your potential. Whether you’re changing industries, climbing the ladder, or restarting your career, this tool gives you a clear view forward.

📌 No more second-guessing. No more random applications. Just insight, strategy, and confidence—built into your resume process.

Wisedoc’s AI Career Guidance helps you:

• Discover job roles that truly match your background
• Visualize career moves with a Sankey diagram
• Identify skill gaps and upskilling paths
• Apply smarter—not harder

Your next job shouldn’t be a shot in the dark. It should be a data-driven decision—and Wisedoc gives you the light to see it.