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Built for community colleges

Career orientation for transfer students, adult learners, and workforce-development cohorts.

Free assessments and Career Guide for every student. Counsellor dashboard with transfer pathway, credential ladder, and local salary data. Perkins V and WIOA grant-friendly procurement.

In Brief

JobCannon for Community Colleges supports career orientation, transfer pathway planning, and workforce-development intake for two-year institutions. The student-facing assessment battery (RIASEC, Big Five, Skills Audit, Career Match, IQ) is free for educational use; counsellor and workforce-development dashboards run on the Business tier ($199/mo flat) or under a custom partnership. The platform integrates with SSO (Google, Microsoft, SAML) on free tier, with full Assessment API for SIS write-back (Banner, Workday Student, PeopleSoft) on partnership engagements. Adult-learner mode highlights transferable skills from work history, credential ladders to four-year transfer, and fast-track certificate programmes. Used for Perkins V programme-of-study planning, WIOA workforce partnerships, TAA trade-affected worker support, and state-level workforce-development budgets. Pilots active in California, Texas, and Ohio.

What community colleges actually use it for

Four use cases that map to existing budget lines.

Adult-learner intake
Returning students take Skills Audit + Career Match in 25 minutes. The platform surfaces transferable skills from work history and recommends fast-track credential programmes the college offers. Used at orientation and during application screening.
Transfer pathway planning
After Career Match, Career Guide shows the credential ladder (associate → bachelor → graduate) for top matches with local salary data. Counsellors export a printable transfer-planning sheet for advising meetings.
Workforce-development intake
Non-credit certificate programmes use JobCannon as the front door. Students take RIASEC + Skills Audit; platform recommends the college’s certificate programmes; workforce office gets a leads dashboard. Improves under-recruited programme enrolment 15-30 percent.
CCRI and Perkins reporting
Aggregate completion and pathway data exports formatted for state CCRI and federal Perkins V programme-quality submissions. Counsellors stop hand-rolling spreadsheets each semester.

Recommended assessment battery

Sequenced for community-college student journeys.

Application & orientation
First touch
First-semester advising
Course planning
Pre-transfer / pre-graduation
Pathway commitment

Compared to community-college career tools

For a college with 12,000 enrolled students per year

$80-150K
Naviance for Higher Ed
$8-15 per student
$60-90K
CareerExplorer Institutional
$5-8 per student
$40-80K
Mappa Career Services
$4-7 per student
$0
JobCannon
Unlimited, forever

What community colleges get

Free assessments and Career Guide for every enrolled student
Adult-learner mode with transferable-skills surfacing
Credential ladder visualisation for transfer pathway planning
Local salary data via O*NET integration
Counsellor dashboard with cohort analytics
Workforce-development intake mode for non-credit certificates
Aggregate exports for CCRI, Perkins V, WIOA reporting
Quote letter and outcomes rationale for grant submissions

Community-college pricing

Student-facing assessments and Career Guide stay free. Counsellor and workforce-development dashboards on the Business tier ($199/mo flat) or scoped under a partnership.

Starter

Try it with a micro-team

$0
  • 5 invites (one-time, not recurring)
  • All 50+ assessments
  • Basic individual reports
  • Share link via email or Slack
  • No credit card required
Request free access

Coach

For independent coaches and therapists

$29/mo
or $290/yr (save 17%)
  • 30 invites per month
  • All 50+ assessments
  • Detailed individual reports
  • Coach notes per client
  • PDF export (client-ready)
  • Session prep recommendations
Get Coach access
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Team

For startups, teams and HR

$79/mo
or $790/yr (save 17%)
  • 100 invites per month
  • Everything in Coach
  • Team DNA dashboard
  • Compatibility matrix
  • Conflict-pattern detection
  • Compare 2-3 team members
Get Team access
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Business

For agencies, L&D and scale-ups

$199/mo
or $1990/yr (save 17%)
  • 500 invites per month
  • Everything in Team
  • White-label PDF reports (your logo)
  • API access (read-only results)
  • Custom assessment builder (beta)
  • Bulk CSV import/export
Get Business access

Enterprise

For 200+ person companies

From $5k/yr
  • Unlimited invites
  • Everything in Business
  • SSO (SAML, Google Workspace)
  • SLA (99.9% uptime)
  • Data residency options (EU/US)
  • Dedicated Customer Success
Talk to us

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.

Request a community-college pilot

Tell us your enrolment, your reporting requirements, and your funding source. We respond with a pilot plan within two business days.

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FAQ

Is this designed for adult learners and returning students?

Yes. The default consumer flow is calibrated for ages 14 and up but tone and item language work for adult learners. The community-college variant adds a "returning learner" preset that surfaces transferable skills from prior work experience, identifies fast-track credential pathways, and pulls salary data for the local labour market via O*NET. Adults returning to study after five-plus years find the Skills Audit and Career Match particularly useful — they discover their work history maps to credentials they have not heard of.

How does this support transfer pathways to four-year institutions?

After a student completes Career Match, the Career Guide shows the credential ladder for their top three matches: associate degree → bachelor → optional graduate. Each rung shows estimated salary, required courses, and which four-year institutions accept transfer credits in the relevant programmes. Counsellors export this as a printable transfer-planning document for student-advisor meetings.

Does it integrate with our SIS or LMS?

Most community colleges use the lightweight integration: students sign up via SSO (Google, Microsoft, or institutional SAML), assessment results sync to a counsellor dashboard, no full SIS write-back. For colleges that need write-back into Banner, Workday Student, or PeopleSoft, the Assessment API is available on the Business tier, with custom integration on partnership engagements. Webhooks fire on every Career Guide completion.

How is this different from CareerOneStop, MyNextMove, or O*NET Interest Profiler?

O*NET tools are excellent foundational research and we cite them throughout. The differences are: (1) closed loop — CareerOneStop tells you what a career pays; JobCannon tells you which courses at your college lead to that career and which skills the student is currently missing; (2) campus-aware — JobCannon counsellor dashboards let advisors see where students are in their pathway, not just static career profiles; (3) cohort analytics — workforce-development directors see programme-level outcomes (which Career Match recommendations cluster around our certificate programmes vs send students to four-year transfer).

Is there grant funding for this?

Yes — most community colleges fund the dashboard through Perkins V (programme of study planning), WIOA (workforce-development partnerships), TAA grants for trade-affected workers, or state-level workforce-development budgets. We provide a quote letter and outcomes-rationale document formatted for grant submissions. Many colleges have run the free student tier for a semester, then gone back for grant funding for the dashboard once impact was demonstrated.

What about non-credit workforce programmes and CTE certificates?

Strong fit. Workforce-development directors use JobCannon as the front door for non-credit programme intake — students take RIASEC + Skills Audit, the platform recommends the best-fit certificate programmes the college offers, and the workforce office gets a leads dashboard. This typically improves enrolment in under-recruited certificate programmes by 15-30 percent within a semester.