Honest comparison
My Next Move is free, citizen-facing, and a strong public resource for solo career exploration. JobCannon adds validated psychometrics, AI career mapping across 2,536 careers, and the dashboards workforce boards and schools need for cohort tracking.
My Next Move is the U.S. Department of Labor public career website — free, plain-English, and a defensible choice for citizen self-service exploration. It is not a programme-management platform; there is no login, no participant tracking, no administrator layer, and the only assessment is the Interest Profiler short form. JobCannon ships a comparable RIASEC plus 52 other validated assessments, maps results across a 2,536-career knowledge graph, and includes a coordinator dashboard for cohort tracking and ESSA/WIOA-formatted exports. If your workflow is hand learners a public URL and follow up 1:1, My Next Move is genuinely sufficient. If you need programme tracking, broader assessment depth, or AI-mapped career pathways, JobCannon adds the layers My Next Move does not provide. Migration is additive — keep My Next Move as a citizen-facing entry point and add JobCannon for the institutional layer.
Public DOL site vs institutional platform.
What each platform ships.
For a programme running 500 participants per year
Many programmes keep My Next Move as a citizen-facing exploration entry point and add JobCannon for cohort tracking and the broader assessment battery. Free tier covers small cohorts permanently; Business tier adds dashboard flat at $199/mo.
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For startups, teams and HR
For agencies, L&D and scale-ups
For 200+ person companies
All plans currently activated manually via the contact form — we review each request within 24 hours and provision access the same day. Self-serve checkout coming once we've heard from the first wave of teams.
Tell us how you currently use My Next Move, your cohort size, and your reporting requirements. We respond with a layered rollout plan within three business days.
My Next Move is the U.S. Department of Labor career-exploration website built on top of O*NET. It is plain-English, citizen-facing, and free. The intended audience is workers exploring career options on their own — typing in a job they have done, browsing a Holland Code list, or running the Interest Profiler short form. It is not a programme-management platform; it is a public resource.
When the institution is essentially handing learners a public website and following up in 1:1 sessions. Adult education programmes that already have strong case management, library career corners, single-counsellor practices, and journalism/research use cases are well served. The moment the institution needs to track which participants completed what, produce reports, or run cohorts above 50 people, My Next Move stops being enough on its own.
Three things My Next Move does not provide. (1) Programme management — coordinator dashboard, cohort completion tracking, caseload assignment, ESSA/WIOA reporting exports. (2) Assessment depth — 53 validated instruments including Big Five, EQ, Multiple Intelligences, Skills Audit, IQ, beyond the single Interest Profiler short form on My Next Move. (3) Career Guide — a structured next-step output with skill-gap analysis and recommended free courses, rather than the static O*NET career page.
For RIASEC, yes — both platforms use Holland Code instruments derived from O*NET research. JobCannon's RIASEC is a calibrated short-form. For everything else, My Next Move does not have a comparable instrument; it returns to O*NET career pages and out-of-the-box federal labour-market data. JobCannon ships Big Five, EQ, Multiple Intelligences, Skills Audit, and IQ as additional validated instruments with their own technical documentation.
No. My Next Move is intentionally a citizen-facing site with no login, no participant tracking, and no administrator layer. Workforce boards, schools, and adult-ed programmes that want completion tracking either build their own scaffolding around My Next Move (spreadsheets, custom case-management notes) or move to a platform that ships the dashboard. JobCannon ships the dashboard.
Most programmes using My Next Move are doing so because the budget is zero and the workflow is hand-rolled. Migration is additive: keep using My Next Move for citizen-facing exploration where it works, add JobCannon for cohort tracking and the broader assessment battery. JobCannon free tier covers small cohorts permanently; Business tier $199/mo flat adds the dashboard. Many adult-ed programmes run a 4-6 week pilot before formally switching.