OYC Lab Launches 'Own Your Career' — an AI Workspace for Students & Working Professionals, Free for Colleges
Built by OYC Lab, Own Your Career is an AI-first career workspace that turns scattered prep — resumes, applications, interviews, skill plans — into one guided flow. We're making it free for Indian colleges through 2026.
Today OYC Lab is rolling out Own Your Career — an AI-powered career workspace built for Indian students and working professionals, and free for colleges through 2026.
We started OYC Lab because the career-prep stack for most students is broken. Resumes live in three different drives, applications are tracked in WhatsApp screenshots, interview prep is a YouTube tab, and there's no single place that says *here's exactly what to work on next.* Own Your Career stitches that flow together into one workspace, with AI doing the heavy lifting where it actually helps.
What's inside the platform
- AI Resume Fit Score. Paste any job description and your resume, and we score the match across role fit, must-have skills, years-of-experience coverage, ATS readability, and bullet quality — then tell you exactly which lines to rewrite.
- AI Recommended Jobs. A continuous feed pulled from 60+ company career pages (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workday and more), ranked against your profile in real time. Save, track or apply in one click.
- Application Tracker. A Kanban-style board for every role you're chasing, with reminders for follow-ups and offer-deadline timers. No more guessing which company ghosted you.
- My Profile workspace. A structured single source of truth — experience, projects, skills, accomplishments, socials and portfolio — that powers every downstream tool. Update once, propagate everywhere.
- Skill plans and prep paths. Personalized weekly plans for AI/ML, data, SDE and product roles, built from real job-description signal, not generic syllabi.
- Interview prep. Role-specific question banks and structured answer scaffolds — STAR for behavioral, system-design templates for SDE-2+, case decks for product and consulting.
Who it's for
- Final-year students who want their first resume reviewed at 9/10 quality before submitting to placement cells.
- Early-career working professionals (0-3 years) looking to switch into AI, product, or higher-paying roles.
- Returning women professionals rebuilding career narratives after a break — our resume engine is calibrated for non-linear career stories.
- College placement cells that want a free, deployable platform to give every student a real shot.
Free for Indian colleges through 2026
We believe placement infrastructure shouldn't be a paywall. If you run or work with a college placement cell in India, Own Your Career is free for your entire batch through December 2026 — no per-seat fees, no data lock-in, no surprise upgrade paths.
What colleges get:
- Bulk onboarding for the entire graduating batch with one upload.
- A placement-cell admin view: aggregate readiness scores, application velocity, top employers, and skill gaps across the cohort.
- Co-branded career pages and resume templates carrying the college's identity.
- Direct support from the OYC Lab team — Slack channel, monthly office hours, training for placement officers.
How to get started
- Students and working professionals: sign up at ownyourcareer.in and complete your profile in under 10 minutes. The Resume Fit Score and AI Recommended Jobs unlock immediately.
- Colleges: email us at partners@ownyourcareer.in with your institution name and approximate batch size. We'll set up your campus workspace within 48 hours.
- Recruiters and employers: if you'd like your roles to show up in the AI Recommended feed, share your careers-page URL — we already crawl most major ATS systems.
What's next
In the next few months we're shipping deeper integrations: LinkedIn auto-import for profiles, a referral marketplace that connects you to alumni at target companies, an AI mock-interview module with voice grading, and an offer-comparison calculator that factors in CTC, ESOP vesting and city cost-of-living.
We build for the student who is the first person in their family to chase a tech career, for the working professional who can't afford a ₹40k coaching program, and for the placement officer who is genuinely trying to move outcomes. If that's you — welcome aboard.
Own your career. We built the workspace; the next move is yours.
Source: OYC Lab
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