Honest comparison
MyPlan.com wins on catalogue breadth and US university-search integration — decade-plus career profiles and college-major-by-school data. JobCannon wins on validated psychometric depth, AI career mapping, and modern UX. Many programmes run both.
MyPlan.com has been running since the early 2000s as a college and career exploration platform with broad catalogue coverage — careers, majors, US universities, degree costs — plus interest, personality, skills, and values assessments. The strongest layer is the US university-search integration (browse colleges by major, region, admission profile) for grade 11-12 college-exploration conversations. JobCannon ships a different category of platform: 53 validated psychometric instruments including Big Five (OCEAN), RIASEC, EQ, Multiple Intelligences, Skills Audit, IQ, with AI career match across a 2,536-career, 1,533-skill, 64,317-edge knowledge graph and skill-gap analysis with recommended free courses. Pricing differs structurally: MyPlan charges individuals $10-20/month for full access; JobCannon free tier is permanent for individuals, Business tier $199/mo flat for institutional dashboards covering unlimited learners. Many districts run both — JobCannon for assessment and grades 6-11 career exploration, MyPlan for US university-search at grades 11-12.
Catalogue platform vs validated assessment platform.
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For a school district of 5,000 students per year
For US grade 11-12 college-exploration with university-search as the primary deliverable, keep MyPlan. For grades 6-11 career exploration, validated psychometric depth, and modern UX, JobCannon is the better choice. Many districts run both; the JobCannon free tier covers individuals at no cost.
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Catalogue breadth and US university-search integration. MyPlan.com has been running since the early 2000s and ships a broad catalogue of careers, college majors, US graduate programmes, and degree-cost data, plus interest, personality, skills, and values assessments. The university-search integration (browse colleges by major, region, or admission profile) is genuinely useful for grade 11-12 exploration. The platform is established and recognised in school-counsellor circles.
Three layers. (1) Validated psychometric depth — MyPlan's assessments are interest-tag and personality-style instruments without the published validation studies behind Big Five (OCEAN); JobCannon ships 53 validated instruments including Big Five, RIASEC, EQ, Multiple Intelligences, IQ. (2) AI career mapping — MyPlan returns career list lookups; JobCannon maps results across a 2,536-career, 1,533-skill, 64,317-edge graph with skill-gap analysis. (3) Modern UX — MyPlan UX feels mid-2010s; JobCannon UX is mobile-first and conversational.
Two specific layers. (1) US university-search integration — MyPlan ships a US college-major-by-school catalogue with admission profile data; JobCannon does not duplicate this catalogue and is not US-university-focused. (2) Long-tail career catalogue with text-based career profiles — MyPlan has invested in long-form career-page content over 20 years; JobCannon ships its own career catalogue (2,536 careers) but the text depth per career profile is lighter.
MyPlan offers individual paid subscriptions ($10-20/month for full assessment access) and institutional licensing (varies by district). JobCannon free tier is permanent for individuals (full assessment battery, full Career Guide); Business tier $199/mo flat for institutional dashboards covering unlimited learners. For individuals, JobCannon free tier is genuinely free where MyPlan charges; for institutions, JobCannon flat pricing wins at any scale above 50 learners.
Two scenarios. (1) US grade 11-12 college-exploration use case where the major-by-school catalogue is the primary deliverable. (2) Counsellors with established MyPlan workflows where switching cost exceeds savings. For everything else — broader assessment depth, AI career matching, institutional dashboards, modern UX, free individual access — JobCannon is the better choice.
Yes. Common pattern: JobCannon runs the assessment and Career Guide output for grades 6-11; MyPlan provides the US university-search integration for grade 11-12 college-exploration conversations. JobCannon does not duplicate the MyPlan college catalogue; MyPlan does not duplicate the JobCannon assessment depth. The two complement each other if your district serves the late-high-school college-application arc.