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IMPRESSO

IMPRESSO is a free mobile app that helps students, new graduates, and career changers navigate career decisions through an AI coach ("Lucy"), industry mentor matching, and skills-based profiles. It connects young people with industry professionals for short mentorship sessions and matches users to opportunities based on their skills and interests, rather than traditional resume-based job applications.
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Description

IMPRESSO positions itself as a career discovery and mentorship platform built for students, fresh graduates, and people considering a career pivot. Its core product includes an AI career coach (Lucy) that provides private, judgment-free career guidance, a "Career Passport" for showcasing verified skills instead of a traditional resume, a "reverse job hunt" matching system, and a skill gap analyzer to help users identify what to learn next. The platform also connects industry professionals as mentors who hold short (15-30 minute) coffee-chat style sessions with mentees, gaining visibility with hiring companies and earning gamified in-app rewards (referred to as IMPRESSO, DOPP, and WAZA coins) for participating. The company emphasizes Swiss-based data privacy and GDPR protection, end-to-end encrypted conversations with its AI coach, and user control over personal data. Its primary clients/users are students still in school, recent graduates entering the job market, and industry professionals interested in mentoring.