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    Bengaluru Start-Up ‘Skillsurger’ Launches AI Career Agent to Close the Gap Between Ambition and Opportunity

    Early beta users report 40 % faster interview call-backs; the company opens public sign-ups today with a free seven-day trial.
    PNN Online DeskBy PNN Online DeskJuly 31, 2025No Comments4 Mins Read
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    Bangalore (Karnataka) [India], July 30: When Ananya Iyer lost her job as a marketing associate in last year’s round of tech layoffs, she faced the familiar whirl of résumé rewrites, online courses and marathon interview prep. “It felt like a full-time job just managing my job search,” she recalls. Two months later, she joined the closed beta of Skillsurger.com, an AI-powered career agent that promised to diagnose her skill gaps, redesign her CV, and rehearse interviews—using the same large-language-model technology popularised by ChatGPT. Within three weeks, she had two offers on the table, one at a 22 % salary bump.

    Stories like Iyer’s are beginning to surface across LinkedIn and Reddit, and they underpin the quiet arrival of Skillsurger’s public launch this week. Founded by Apeksha Gupta, a Bengaluru-based tech professional, the start-up sits at the junction of generative AI and professional development—an intersection investors have tipped as the next billion-dollar SaaS frontier.

    “A CV is just data until someone contextualises it,” says Gupta.
    “Our agent learns who you are, where you want to go, then reverse-engineers the fastest path.”

    From Generic Job Boards to Precision Career Maps

    Unlike conventional job portals, Skillsurger begins with a 30-second profile scan. Users upload a résumé; the platform’s proprietary AI technology converts it to a web profile, which can be enhanced based on career path and job of interest or AI-suggested.

    That gap analysis powers four signature tools:

    1. AI-Tailored Career Paths – curated role suggestions ranked by salary, market demand and skills overlap.

    2. Top-Job Matches – a real-time feed of openings filtered for fit, location flexibility and growth trajectory.

    3. CV Auto-Upgrade – one-click résumé rewrites that embed relevant keywords for Applicant Tracking Systems.

    4. Learning Paths + Courses – bite-sized course playlists (many free) drawn from Coursera, Udemy and company-specific training academies.

    5. AI Mock Interviews – role-specific practice sessions with instant feedback on content, tone and confidence cues.

    During its last-month invite-only beta, the platform attracted 5,000 users—largely mid-career professionals in tech, finance and product management. According to internal telemetry shared with reporters, the median user secured an interview 14 days sooner than the control cohort that relied on conventional job-board alerts.

    Why Now?

    Industry analysts say the timing is ripe. A recent Deloitte study notes that 63% of professionals plan to change jobs in 2024–25, yet only 11% feel “well equipped” for the search. Meanwhile, corporate L&D budgets continue to fragment across MOOCs, bootcamps and internal academies, leaving workers to stitch together their own upskilling roadmaps.

    “We’re seeing the unbundling of the career ladder,” explains Dr. Ritu Kataria, Future-of-Work researcher
    “Tools that recombine discovery, learning and placement into a single flow will dominate the next cycle.”

    A Business Model that Starts Free—But Values Commitment

    Skillsurger adopts a freemium strategy: a seven-day unrestricted trial, then ₹ 860 per month (≈ $10) for unlimited job matches, CV rewrites and interview sessions. For enterprise clients, the company quietly rolled out a SaaS tier that charges per employee, already piloted by two Indian IT services firms looking to streamline internal mobility.

    Gupta insists the pricing is intentional: “We wanted to be cheaper than a single session with a human career coach, yet sticky enough that users commit to their growth.”

    Early Success and What’s Next

    • 40 % reduction in average time-to-interview among beta cohort

    • 98 % CV rewrite satisfaction (in-app NPS survey)

    • First enterprise deal signed in Q2 2025, covering 1200 learners

    Next on the roadmap: multi-lingual support (Hindi, etc) and a Chrome extension that grades job descriptions in-line and flags instant fit scores.

    For professionals reconsidering their next move—or companies seeking to future-proof their workforce—Skillsurger may be worth a test-drive. The team is capping its discounted plan at the end of the month; after that, pricing is expected to rise.

    Prospective users can explore the full feature set at skillsurger.com, where sign-up takes less than a minute and no credit card is required for the initial trial. If the platform delivers on its early promise, scrolling LinkedIn might feel a little less daunting—and that following interview a lot more attainable.

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    AI Career Agent Apeksha Gupta Skillsurger
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