The office has a cohort. The interviews still happen alone.

Cohort problem

A placement cohort without a shared practice slot drifts into private rehearsal.

Career offices already have groups. The missing piece is a room they can join and a sequence they sit in the same order—so staff can sample attempts without sitting in every seat.

Study Rooms are join-by-code. Interview Sequences chain interviews. Socratic AI Interviews are the stage inside that sequence. Shared Footprint is how a learner shares selected evidence with staff.

Career Services Teams is who runs the office. Interview practice is the problem without the room. This page adds the cohort. The record is practice evidence. It is not a hiring score.

Fit check

Who this is for — and who should walk away.

If you only need one learner to rehearse alone, use the interview-practice page. This page is for a named cohort with a code to issue.

• Career Services & placement cells

  Offices that already have a named cohort and need a shared practice slot before the drive—not another private mock with no sample trail.

• Programme & placement leads

  Leads who want the same Interview Sequence order across the group, then a sample of Shared Footprints between appointments.

• Wrong buyer jobs

  One-to-one coaching only (see Career Coaches), employer screening stamps, LMS replacement, placement-rate theatre, or ranking the group for recruiters.

What you get

A bounded cohort slot that leaves inspectable evidence.

• One cohort × one sequence × one reviewer

  Issue a Study Room code for this group only. Fourteen to twenty-one days—not a campus-wide roll-out or Gem-first path.

• Join-by-code + Interview Sequences

  Learners join the room and sit stages in the same order. Staff do not need to be in every seat.

• Sample Shared Footprints

  Attendance, follow-up attempts, revisions, and honest gaps—enough for a human sample review, not a placement score.

• Keep / change / stop

  A readout at the end. Retune the sequence or sample rule before you expand seats—or stop if reviewer load is not worth it.

The loop

Issue a code. Sit the sequence. Inspect a sample — then decide.

• Days 1–3 · Open the room

  Create a Study Room with a join code for this cohort only. Name the designated reviewer, cohort size, and the success question you will answer at readout. Output: a one-page scope sheet and the code to issue.

• Days 4–7 · Publish the order

  Publish an Interview Sequence that matches the live process—each stage a Socratic AI Interview under follow-up. Require a short prep note before the first sitting so the room is not a paste-in theatre.

• Days 8–16 · Learners join + sample review

  Learners join by code and sit the stages. Staff do not need to be in every seat. Your reviewer opens 10–15 Shared Footprints between appointments—look for attempt, follow-up, named gap, and whether you would coach from this trail.

• Days 17–21 · Review and decide

  Three questions only: Did the cohort practise the same order with inspectable follow-ups? Was reviewer load tolerable? Keep the room-and-sequence design, change stage order or sample rule, or stop. Write the sentence into your notes.

Capabilities in this loop

A room, a sequence, a record.

• Study Rooms

  Join-by-code. Starts a Study Session for the named group—this cohort only.

• Interview Sequences

  Stages in a planned order that matches the live interview process.

• Socratic AI Interviews

  Each stage is an explanation under follow-up—not a scripted quiz.

• Shared Footprint

  Selected evidence when a learner shares with staff—including gaps.

Boundary

A cohort that practised the same order.

• Attendance

  Who joined the room and sat a stage—enough to see whether the shared slot was used, not a board-slide percentage.

• Attempts

  Follow-up answers from the sequence, with revisions and named gaps when learners share footprints with staff.

• Limit

  Not a placement score. Staff still coach. Employers still decide. Many pilots start with named accounts before SSO.

• A cohort practice slot. Not a recruitment product.

  ProfilEd records cohort interview practice. It does not certify competence, rank the group for employers, predict placement %, or treat the record as recruiter-auditable proof. Humans interpret Shared Footprint—including gaps.

Evidence rule

What counts in this cohort pilot — and what does not.

• Counts

  Join-by-code room for one cohort; sequence order matched to the live process; attempt → feedback → revision; sample Shared Footprints with honest gaps; human interpretation.

• Does not count

  Completion %, time-on-platform, or “AI confidence” as competence; ranking the group for employers; claims that two weeks raise placement % or verify programme-wide readiness.

• Out of scope

  LMS/SIS replacement, campus-wide rollout on day one, employer screening as the product, one-to-one coaching as the primary job (use Career Coaches), invented brochure percentages.

• Decision language

  Write one sentence at readout: expand next cohort; retune sequence or sample rule; or stop. Stopping is success if it prevented a bad annual licence.

Continue

See Study Rooms, the office audience, and the sibling problem.

• Focused pilot

  Primary CTA—bounded cohort evaluation.

• Study Rooms

  Join-by-code cohort spaces.

• Career Services Teams

  Who issues the code.

• Interview practice

  Explain-and-share loop without the room.

• ProfilEd methodology

  Practice, challenge, revision, and human review.

Next step

Bring one cohort whose interviews currently have no shared slot.

Plan a focused pilot