How it works

How Kanso Works | A Career Decision Tool

Kanso helps you clarify career trade-offs and the workplace conditions you would protect, compromise on, or investigate before deciding.

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How Kanso Works | A Career Decision Tool

Assessment

19 workplace conditions

Each question maps to named factors from your assessment, so your profile reflects what you actually rated.

Mechanic

A constraint reveals priorities

Rate each condition independently, using the scale provided.

Output

A diagnosis you can use

Your free diagnosis shows the picture. Playbook adds the action layer.

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Step 1

The 19-condition career assessment

Kanso asks about nineteen workplace conditions across four areas. They are not questions about your job history or personality. They are the conditions that shape whether a role works for you.

The result is not a label. It gives you a clearer starting point for thinking about a role, and for conversations with a current or future employer.

Four pillars

Cultural

Values, Energy, Accountability, Psychological safety, Recognition & respect, Collaboration & relationships.

Professional

Purpose, Work balance, Growth, Learning & support, Feedback, Autonomy, Leadership & management quality.

Personal

Flexible working, Commute / location, Work-life boundaries.

Financial

Base salary, Other rewards, Financial stability.

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Step 2

The Importance-Rating Mechanic

Kanso presents one condition at a time. You can move back and forward through the questions to review or change an answer, and rate each condition on the scale provided.

Marking a condition Highly Important or Truly Essential uses one available credit. Lower-importance answers do not use a credit. You can submit only after using between five and eight credits, so if you are outside the range, you revise one or more answers. The completed pattern makes the conditions most likely to shape a difficult decision clearer.

Priority credits

Each condition is rated separately. Marking one Highly Important or Truly Essential uses an available credit.

Use your credits as you rate

You can submit after using 5 to 8 credits. If you are outside that range, change an answer. Your completed ratings show the conditions that matter most to you.

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Step 3

Your Trade-Off Profile

Once you complete the assessment, you receive your free Trade-Off Profile. It shows the conditions you have prioritised, the tensions between them, and the blind spots worth keeping in view. It is not a personality type.

Sections marked Playbook turn that picture into action, with practical steps, questions, and screening criteria.

Trade-off profile

Key drivers

The conditions with the greatest decision weight.

Other priorities

Conditions that still matter, but are less central.

Lower-priority conditions

Conditions that carry less decision weight, not conditions to ignore.

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Step 4

Explore your profile with Kanso Coach

Your free diagnosis includes three Kanso Coach messages, grounded in your Trade-Off Profile. Use them to explore a tension, test a role or offer, or prepare for a conversation.

Playbook adds 50 messages and guided prompts from your results.

Coach view

Explore a specific trade-off in your profile.
Prepare questions to assess a role or offer.
Turn a priority into language for an interview or manager conversation.
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Step 5

What Kanso does and does not do

Kanso does not tell you which job to take or predict whether an employer will keep a promise. It helps you see what you need to ask, what you could live with, and which trade-offs need more evidence before you decide. See the career trade-offs glossary for the terms used here.

The assessment gives you a picture of your workplace priorities. The decision still needs your judgement and evidence from the role itself.

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