What free tools come with my account?
The short answer
In your portal: Resume Builder, Cover Letters, Openings, My Applications and Career Tools, plus LADX Mini. At Resources, anyone can use free engineering calculators and career tools.
Where the free tools are
| Detail | Your portal | Resources |
|---|---|---|
| Account needed | Yes | No |
| Openings and My Applications | Yes | No |
| Resume Builder and Cover Letters | Yes | No |
| LADX Mini | Yes | No |
| Engineering calculators | No | Yes |
| ATS resume checker and interview helpers | No | Yes |
Your portal
- Account needed
- Yes
- Openings and My Applications
- Yes
- Resume Builder and Cover Letters
- Yes
- LADX Mini
- Yes
- Engineering calculators
- No
- ATS resume checker and interview helpers
- No
Resources
- Account needed
- No
- Openings and My Applications
- No
- Resume Builder and Cover Letters
- No
- LADX Mini
- No
- Engineering calculators
- Yes
- ATS resume checker and interview helpers
- Yes
In your portal:
- Resume Builder and Cover Letters, with your courses and certificates ready to add
- Openings and My Applications
- Career Tools, a page that gathers the job-search tools in one place, with your name and qualification filled in
- LADX Mini: draw and run ladder logic in the browser
At [Resources](/resources), for anyone:
- engineering calculators: 4-20 mA scaling, motor and VFD, and PID tuning
- a PLC code explainer and a structured text generator
- a learning plan builder
- career tools: a resume builder and ATS resume checker, cover letter, LinkedIn and interview helpers, and a salary estimator
The AI tools can make mistakes, so check what they give you before you use it.
Some career pages, such as Placement and the Career hub, come with a paid programme. A locked item in your menu says why.
Updated 22 October 2026
Related answers
- How do I plan which courses to take?Use the free learning plan builder at Resources: pick your goal and your hours a week, and it lays out the courses in order, week by week. Then join the path.
- How do I build a resume and cover letters?Use Resume Builder and Cover Letters in the Career menu. Start from the draft built from your course record or upload your own, edit it beside a live A4 preview, then export a PDF.
- What is LADX Mini?LADX Mini is a ladder-logic simulator built into your portal. Draw ladder logic, press Simulate and watch power flow through the rungs. It is free, needs no install, and saves your projects to your account.
- Where do I find job openings?Open Openings in your portal's Career menu. It lists automation roles from your placement team and from employers' career sites, refreshed twice a day. You apply on the employer's own site.
- How do I keep track of jobs I applied for?Use My Applications in the Career menu. Bookmark a role from Openings, or add one by hand, and update its status as it moves from Applied to Shortlisted, Interviewing, Offer, Rejected or No response.
- What placement help is there?Placement support comes with the paid programmes: CV and interview preparation, and introductions to employers. Some programmes carry a job guarantee or assurance with conditions, set out in the placement policy.
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