Built in the open
The practice and the evidence, beside the planning platform you already run.
Keep your platform. Keep the plans in it, and the pipe that submits applications and transcripts in October. What sits next to it here is the part that is hard to buy: somewhere a student tries something and writes down what they made of it, and a labor market underneath that can be checked rather than described.
Most career-readiness software shows a student a national annual average and calls it the labor market. We hold the openings that exist this week, from the same index that runs our jobs platform. A student sees them when they ask what a line of work looks like near them, which is evidence, and never as an instruction to apply.
This site is being built in public. What is below is real and counted. What is not built yet is named as not built yet.
What the index can see
A figure we could not read shows as an em dash and says so. It never shows as a zero.
- 1,537,982
live openings in the United States
Counted exactly, against live rows, when this page was built. Not an annual average.
- 195,799
of them read as entry level
Our reading of the posting text, not a field the employer filled in — every live posting gets a level, which is itself the sign that it is inferred. In a 3,000-row sample, 0.6% of these carry a senior-sounding title.
- 5,094
apprenticeships
Earn-while-you-learn roles. Small, and the number CTE directors ask for first.
- 216,612
publish a pay figure we are willing to print
Counted the way the pages print it: no estimate, and at least one bound big enough to mean something without a published period. The looser count was 183,384, which both included figures we refuse to show and left out the ones we show as “up to”.
Most recently confirmed posting in the index: . Counts taken .
Where to go from here
Three different people read this page. None of these needs an account.
You are a student
Sixty questions, then work that exists near you
The U.S. Department of Labor's interest questions, scored in your browser. The questions, the scoring and the occupation matching all happen in the browser and none of it is sent anywhere. One thing does leave: if a student presses the button asking to see local openings, we receive that occupation's job title and the two-letter state, and nothing else. About twenty-five minutes.
You teach or counsel
One class period, nothing to set up
A lesson you can run on Monday on a Chromebook cart, and an honest account of what this cannot do for you yet.
You need the local picture
What work exists in each state, counted
Live openings by field, by experience level and by city, for all fifty states. Free to read, free to forward.
You have to produce a report
Which mandates this could evidence, and which it could not
Perkins V indicators, state plan requirements, and the procurement checklist with our honest position on every row.
Where this stands
Futureful runs a live national jobs index and a career platform for people looking for work. This is the version built for the people who teach them: districts, community colleges, career centers, and counselors carrying caseloads that make one-to-one advising arithmetic impossible.
It is a separate product on a separate system, because a classroom has requirements a consumer app does not, and because student records belong behind a wall rather than beside a marketplace.