Questions about Volly.

Volly is a Skills Record for Students and a Skills Intelligence system for Schools. Students log their activities in plain language and Volly translates every entry into durable skills language that employers, colleges, and the adult world recognize. Schools get aggregate, anonymous skills insights connected to the career readiness requirements schools are evaluated on.

The student record and the school dashboard are two views of the same system. Students generate the data by doing what they already do. Schools get the intelligence.

No. A resume builder starts from a blank page when you need it. Volly builds a skills record from day one so that by the time a student needs to prove their value, the record is already written. Volly produces resume-ready language as an output, but the system is designed to capture real experience continuously, not to generate a document on demand.

No. Volly is built for every path after high school: college, trade school, military, apprenticeship, first job, or entrepreneurship. The skills record follows students wherever they go, and the skills it surfaces are recognized by employers and workforce organizations, not just college admissions offices.

A skills record is a living system that captures the durable skills a student develops through their real activities and experiences over time. Unlike a transcript (which records grades) or a resume (assembled when needed), a skills record is built continuously from the first day of high school forward.

It belongs to the student, not the school. It follows them through every program change, every pivot, and every path they take. Learn more about skills records →

A portfolio shows finished work. A LinkedIn profile shows professional history. A skills record captures the durable skills built through every real experience, including the ones that don't produce a finished artifact. It translates what students do into professional language, identifies the skills behind it, and connects it to the frameworks employers and institutions use to evaluate candidates.

The IDK Problem is a skill awareness deficit affecting an entire generation of students. Teens are building real, durable skills every day through sports, volunteering, jobs, gaming, and creative work, but have no system to name them, see them, or prove they exist. When asked what they have to offer, the honest answer the system gave them language for is a shrug and IDK.

It's not laziness. It's a translation gap the system was never designed to fix. Read more about the IDK Problem →

System problem. Students who shrug aren't lazy, they're operating in a system that was never designed to give them the language for what they're doing. Transcripts record grades. Test scores capture one day. Neither captures durable skills development or gives students the vocabulary to describe what they're capable of.

Schools are doing what schools have always done: measuring academic progress through grades and test scores. The accountability systems schools operate under were not designed to capture durable skills development. 42 states and DC now include college and career readiness indicators in their accountability systems under ESSA, but the measurement infrastructure to demonstrate those outcomes doesn't exist in most schools yet. That's exactly the gap Volly is built to close.

The casual first jobs that gave previous generations their foundation, paper routes, weekend retail shifts, summer gigs, have largely been automated, restructured, or made economically unviable for young workers. A LinkedIn poll of parents found that 64% had their first job at 15 or 16. The average age for a first job today is 18. An entire generation is arriving at the workforce two to three years later than previous generations, without the foundation those early experiences built.

Students describe what they did in their own words, the way they actually talk. Any activity counts: sports, volunteer hours, jobs, clubs, gaming, creative work, internships, work-based learning. Volly asks guided questions to surface what happened, then translates the entry into professional language and identifies the durable skills behind it.

Most students log an activity in 60 seconds or less. The first session, including setup, typically takes under 10 minutes. Most students log a few times a year, more as they get older. Each session adds to a record that compounds over time.

Any real experience counts: sports, volunteer hours, part-time jobs, clubs, leadership roles, gaming, creative work, content creation, caregiving, internships, work-based learning, side projects, or entrepreneurial ventures. If a student did something real, Volly can find the skills in it.

Yes. Running a gaming community builds community management. Competitive gaming builds strategic thinking, adaptability, and performance under pressure. Managing a Discord server for hundreds of members builds collaboration, communication, and problem-solving. The skills are real, they just need the right language to become visible.

The student. Not the school, not the district, not Volly. The record follows them through every program change, every career pivot, and every path they take. Transcripts belong to the institution. Volly belongs to the student.

As early as possible. Starting at 14 means graduating with four years of documented experience. Starting at 19 means graduating with something. The record compounds, each session adds to what came before. The details of an internship or volunteer experience fade fast; logging it while it's fresh means the record is accurate and complete.

Yes. Volly does not collect home addresses, phone numbers, grades, school names, student IDs, or birth dates. Students choose their own display name, nothing in their profile identifies them outside of Volly. We never sell student data. No ads, no behavioral tracking, no third-party data brokers. Students under 18 require parental approval to create an account.

Volly is designed for low frequency and high value, most students log a few times a year, more as they get older. It's not a daily app. It's a high-value tool that delivers an immediate return: a professional skills summary and identified durable skills in 60 seconds. Students who see that return come back. The record builds momentum the more it grows.

Three differences. First, Volly is guided, it asks the right questions to surface what actually happened, not just what sounds good. Second, Volly produces real durable skills language that employers and colleges use to evaluate candidates, not invented language that sounds impressive but means nothing. Third, Volly builds a record that compounds over time. Every conversation in ChatGPT starts from zero. Every session in Volly adds to a living record the student owns. An AI tool can write a resume bullet. It cannot build a skills record.

Volly is currently in closed beta. Join the beta at getvolly.com/parents. Free during beta, no payment required.

Volly's Skills Intelligence infrastructure is a data layer built from real student activity that surfaces which durable skills are being developed across programs, cohorts, and grades. It connects to the career readiness frameworks schools are evaluated on, giving schools the evidence they need for accountability reporting, grant development, and program decisions.

No. Volly does not require SIS integration. Students sign up and log activities through the Volly web application. Schools access aggregate skills data through the Skills Intelligence dashboard. No IT project required and no district-level infrastructure changes needed.

42 states and DC now include college and career readiness indicators in their school accountability systems under ESSA (Urban Institute, 2025). Schools are expected to demonstrate that students are developing the skills needed for careers and postsecondary success, not just completing courses and passing tests. Most schools currently have no data infrastructure to demonstrate this. Volly builds that infrastructure automatically from real student activity.

Students log because Volly delivers immediate value to them, a real skills record in 60 seconds that follows them wherever they go. Schools that integrate Volly into existing workflows, such as counselor check-ins, CTE orientation, and volunteer hour tracking, see strong student participation. The data is student-generated, which means it reflects what students are doing, not what a survey asks them to remember.

High schools use Career Clusters for pathway design. Colleges use NACE competencies for student outcomes. Employers use their own hiring frameworks. The same underlying skills get described in different language across all three, and students fall through every gap. Volly connects student activity to the career readiness outcomes schools are evaluated on, without asking schools to adopt a new framework or change how they report. The specifics of how skills data connects to your state's reporting requirements is something we walk through directly in school conversations, because it's built around what your program actually needs to demonstrate. Schedule a conversation →

Quite a bit. Counselors and educators are often the first people to recognize the IDK Problem in their students and the ones best positioned to bring Volly to the right people in their school.

A few concrete next steps: take the free Career Readiness Assessment to see where your students stand and have something specific to point to in a conversation with your administration. Share the parent page with families you work with — parent interest is often what opens the door at the school level. Or email us directly at info@getvolly.com and tell us about your school. We can talk through what a free access arrangement for your students might look like while we're in beta.

You don't need budget authority to start a conversation. You just need to forward the right page to the right person.

Volly is working with a select group of early partner schools on the Skills Intelligence dashboard. Schedule a 20-minute conversation with our team at getvolly.com/#schedule to learn more.

The Career Readiness Assessment is a free, 4-minute quiz that shows parents where their teen stands on career readiness, or shows schools where their students stand relative to accountability requirements. It's available to both audiences and delivers a scored result with specific gaps identified. No signup required.

Both parents and school administrators. Parents take it to understand where their teen's skills gaps are. School administrators and CTE coordinators take it to see where their programs stand on career readiness requirements. The assessment routes each audience to the right results and next steps.

Your score shows you specifically where the gaps are. For parents, it connects to the Volly beta so your teen can start building the record that closes those gaps. For schools, it connects to a conversation with our team about how the Skills Intelligence dashboard can give you the data you need to demonstrate outcomes.

Yes. The Career Readiness Assessment is completely free and takes under 4 minutes. No account required, no payment, no credit card. Take it at getvolly.com/readiness.