For teachers and counselors
Two things you can use on Monday, without asking anyone.
No account, no roster, no license, no data-sharing agreement, and nothing for your technology director to approve. Both are free and will stay free.
It does not replace your career-planning platform and it is not trying to. Keep whatever you run: the plans, the portfolio, the pipe that submits transcripts and applications in October. This is the practice and the labor-market half, and it works beside all of that.
We have no districts yet. This page is not a pitch to buy something, because there is nothing to buy.
One class period, start to finish
Written for a forty-five minute period on a Chromebook cart. Nothing needs installing and nothing needs to be set up in advance.
1
5 minutes
Open the work report for your state on the projector
Before anyone answers a question about themselves, show them what work actually exists where they live. Which fields are hiring, which towns, and how much of it expects no employment history. Most students have never seen this and neither have most adults.
2
20 to 25 minutes
Students take the interest questions on their own device
Sixty questions in six short parts. No login, no email address, and no student record. The sixty answers are scored in the browser and never transmitted. The one exception is deliberate and worth knowing before you run it: when a student asks to see local openings, our server receives that occupation's title and the state, plus the ordinary request metadata any web server sees. It never receives who asked or what they answered. A student who finishes gets their own interest profile and a list of occupations that draw on it.
3
10 minutes
Ask them to find one occupation that is real where they live
This is the part that does the work. From their results, they pick a state and see live openings for an occupation they matched with. Sometimes the honest answer is that there is nothing nearby under that title, and that is a better conversation than a national wage table.
One thing to expect if the whole class presses at once: the openings search has a rate limit, and a room of thirty behind a single school connection can reach it. A student who does will see a message saying so, in those words, with a Try again. Nothing is lost and nothing is broken. If you would rather avoid it entirely, have them run the questions first and look at openings in the last ten minutes, which spreads the presses out on its own.
And the step that makes it worth keeping
Send them to the exploration record with five minutes left. One entry: what they did today, and what they made of it. Then — and this is the part to say out loud, because nothing is saved anywhere — they press Export and keep the file. It is a plain file they own, it moves with them between schools, and it is what a student hands you when you ask what they have been doing about any of this. If a student closes the tab first, the entry is gone, and we would rather tell you that than let you find out with thirty of them in a room.
What a student actually gets, in plain terms
- A real instrument
- The O*NET Interest Profiler, published by the U.S. Department of Labor, with a public manual. Not a personality quiz we invented and cannot show you the validation for.
- 923 occupations, ranked, with no score
- We rank the occupations, never the student, and we show no percentage. Instead each one says which of the student’s own strongest interests it draws on, which is the thing they can actually argue with you about.
- 1,537,982 live openings behind it
- A student can go from “this sounds interesting” to “here are the places within my state hiring for it this week” in one click. That step is the one no other career platform can take, because none of them runs a jobs index.
- No student record, and one thing that is sent
- No login, no email address, and no student record. The sixty answers are scored in the browser and never transmitted. The one exception is deliberate and worth knowing before you run it: when a student asks to see local openings, our server receives that occupation's title and the state, plus the ordinary request metadata any web server sees. It never receives who asked or what they answered. You can verify all of that with the network tab. Answers are held in the page while it is open and are never written to the computer. On a shared cart that is the point, and the reasoning is on the student data page rather than summarized differently here.
What does not exist yet, said plainly
Because a student’s answers are never stored, there is no class list, no progress view, and no report you can pull afterwards. That is a real limitation and it is the direct cost of the privacy design, not an oversight.
It also means you cannot yet use this to evidence a state plan requirement, and we are not going to imply that you can. The compliance page sets out exactly which requirements we could support and which we could not.
When a saved version does exist it will be opt-in at the district level, with a signed agreement, and the anonymous version on this page will keep working exactly as it does now.