Career Compare

Career Compare helps students move from browsing careers to making a more focused career choice.

Instead of scrolling through a long list of options, students answer a few preference-based questions, review matched careers one at a time, and choose a career they want to explore more deeply. This gives students a clearer next step and gives educators more insight into where student career interest is turning into direction.

Career Compare is a guided career discovery experience inside Explore → Careers.

Students are asked to think about what matters to them, including their lifestyles, career cluster interests, salary expectations, and education or training preferences. Based on those answers, Career Compare shows students career options that may be a strong fit.

Students then review careers one at a time and mark each as either:

Interested
or
​Not Interested

At the end of the experience, students choose one career from their Interested list to continue exploring.

Career exploration can sometimes feel overwhelming for students. Many students either have too many interests, no clear direction, or are not sure how to compare one career option against another.

Career Compare gives students a simple structure for making a choice.

It helps students:

For educators, Career Compare makes career exploration easier to support because students are not just browsing. They are making decisions based on preference signals that can lead to better conversations, reflections, and planning.

Students can access Career Compare by going to:

Explore → Careers
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Career Compare also appears on the Students Dashboard

Students may also encounter Career Compare if it has been added to their assigned curriculum.

Students open Career Compare from the Dashboard, Explore, or from an assigned curriculum activity.

Students answer a short series of questions that help shape their career matches.

These may include:

For some questions, students can select multiple answers. They may also choose Don’t Mind if they do not want that preference to narrow their results.

Career Compare shows students one career at a time.

Students decide whether each career feels like a possible fit by selecting:

Interested if they want to keep it as an option
​Not Interested if they do not want to continue with that career
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After reviewing their matches, students see a grid of careers they marked as Interested.

From there, they select one career to continue exploring.

If students want to change their preferences or try again, they can start over.

If no careers match their filters, students will be prompted to remove filters or start over so they can broaden their results.

Career Compare works well as a classroom activity, discussion starter, or reflection prompt.

You can ask students to reflect on questions like:

These questions help students move beyond simply choosing a career and toward explaining their thinking.

Career Compare is especially useful when students are beginning a career exploration unit, revisiting their career interests, or preparing to connect career goals to next steps.

A simple classroom flow could be:

If a student receives no career matches, it usually means their selected preferences were too narrow.

Students can remove one or more filters to see additional career options. They can also start over and adjust their answers.

Encourage students to treat this as part of the decision-making process. Sometimes learning what does not fit is just as useful as finding what does.

Career Compare supports important career readiness skills, including:

Career Compare helps students narrow their career options into a clearer next step. It gives students a more structured way to make a career choice and gives educators a better window into how students are thinking about their futures.