Skip to main content

Grades 9-12 career readiness

Career assessments and Career Guide for every high school student. Free for unlimited learners. ESSA and Perkins V aligned.

Career exploration in grade 9-10, pathway commitment in 10-11, post-secondary readiness in 11-12. RIASEC, Big Five, Skills Audit, Career Match across the four-year arc. CCR indicator evidence, FERPA/COPPA compliant, counsellor playbook included.

In Brief

JobCannon for High Schools deploys a four-year career-readiness arc across grades 9-12. Grade 9-10 covers career exploration with RIASEC, Multiple Intelligences, and a Skills Audit baseline. Grade 10-11 covers pathway commitment with Big Five (OCEAN), AI Career Match across our 2,536-career knowledge graph, and a Skills Audit re-run. Grade 11-12 covers post-secondary readiness with EQ, Career Guide refinement, and college-major-by-career-fit conversations. Student-facing assessment and Career Guide are free for all educational use; the school administrator dashboard with cohort analytics is on Business tier ($199/mo flat or under district licensing for districts above 50 schools). The platform is FERPA-aligned for school official use, COPPA-compliant for any under-13 students, and GDPR-compliant for international students. ESSA Title IV career-readiness indicator evidence and Perkins V Programme-Quality reporting (where applicable for CTE pathways) are supported via aggregate exports. Counsellor playbook with sequenced session plans, parent-communication templates, and recorded training videos is included; standard rollout is two to four weeks for a single school. Spanish localisation in active build for bilingual school communities.

What high schools get

Designed for the four-year career-readiness arc.

Sequenced grade-level batteries
Grade 9-10 exploration (RIASEC, MI, Skills Audit). Grade 10-11 commitment (Big Five, Career Match). Grade 11-12 readiness (EQ, Career Guide refinement). Counsellor playbook included.
CCR indicator evidence
Aggregate exports formatted for ESSA Title IV career-readiness reporting and state-level CCR indicators. Student-level Career Guide records as evidence for individual student CCR status.
Perkins V CTE support
Programme-of-Study selection evidence and Programme-Quality reporting for CTE pathway schools. Aggregate Career Guide outcomes feed Perkins V indicators.
Free for unlimited students
Student-facing assessment and Career Guide are free for all educational use. School dashboard $199/mo flat. Funded by Perkins V, ESSA Title IV, or state career-readiness budgets.

Recommended battery across grades 9-12

Sequenced for the four-year career-readiness arc.

Grade 9-10 exploration
Career awareness baseline
Grade 10-11 commitment
Pathway selection
Grade 11-12 readiness
Post-secondary planning

Compared to per-student high-school career tools

For a high school of 1,500 students per year

$15-25K/yr
Naviance
$10-17 per student per year
$10-18K/yr
Xello
$7-12 per student per year
$5-12K/yr
YouScience
$4-8 per student per year
$0
JobCannon
Unlimited, forever

What you get with a high-school deployment

Free assessments and Career Guide for unlimited students
Sequenced grade-9-through-12 battery with counsellor playbook
School administrator dashboard for cohort analytics
ESSA Title IV CCR indicator evidence exports
Perkins V Programme-Quality reporting for CTE pathways
FERPA, COPPA, and GDPR compliance with signed DPA
Counsellor training videos and parent-communication templates
Spanish localisation in active build

Related on JobCannon

High-school deployment is one of twelve audience landings on the JobCannon for Business hub; school administrators looking at cohort analytics across grades 9-12 use the institutional dashboard, and districts running the same battery across multiple buildings move up to our for-school-districts deployment pattern.

For the regulatory layer, the ESSA career-readiness indicator guide covers Title IV reporting and state CCR submissions, and the FERPA student-data guide documents school-official-use posture; CTE pathway schools also read the Perkins V 2026 indicators guide.

High-school tier pricing

Student access stays free. School administrator dashboard runs on Business tier $199/mo flat for unlimited learners. Districts above 50 schools scope under partnership engagements. ESSA Title IV, Perkins V, and state CCR-indicator funding typically cover the dashboard cost.

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
Most Popular

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
Recommended

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 high-school pilot

Tell us your school size, your CTE pathway mix (if any), and your CCR indicator reporting requirements. We respond with a quote letter and pilot plan within two business days.

We reply within 24 hours. No spam, no per-seat pitches.

FAQ

How does the platform fit grades 9-12 specifically?

The four-year arc breaks into three career-readiness layers. Grade 9-10 (career exploration): RIASEC for interest discovery, Multiple Intelligences for strengths exploration, Skills Audit baseline. Grade 10-11 (pathway commitment): Big Five (OCEAN) for trait depth, AI Career Match for specific career options, Skills Audit re-run to track development. Grade 11-12 (post-secondary readiness): EQ for workforce readiness, Career Guide refinement, college-major-by-career-fit conversations. Counsellors typically run the core battery at grade 9 entry and refresh annually, with the Career Guide maturing across the four years.

Does this satisfy ESSA career-readiness indicators?

Yes. JobCannon provides student-level Career Guide records (career match, skill gap, recommended pathways) that schools use as evidence for ESSA Title IV career-readiness indicators where state plans include them. Aggregate exports are formatted for state CCR (College-and-Career-Ready) indicator reporting. The platform does not replace your state SIS — we feed assessment and Career Guide data into it. Most schools use JobCannon as the assessment-and-evidence layer, with the SIS holding the canonical CCR indicator record.

How does this support Perkins V for our CTE pathways?

For schools running CTE (Career and Technical Education) pathways under Perkins V funding, JobCannon supports two specific use cases. (1) Programme-of-Study selection: students run RIASEC, Skills Audit, and Career Match before committing to a Programme of Study, providing evidence the selection was informed and aligned. (2) Programme-Quality reporting: aggregate Career Guide outcomes feed into Perkins V Quality Indicator data, particularly Indicator 5S2 (Career and Technical Education Programme Quality) where applicable. Districts running multi-school CTE programmes can use the cross-school dashboard for programme comparison.

Is the platform free for the school?

Student-facing assessment and Career Guide are free for all educational use, including high-school deployments. The school administrator dashboard with cohort analytics is on a paid tier (typically $199/mo flat or under district licensing for districts above 50 schools). Many high schools fund the dashboard through Perkins V grants, ESSA Title IV career-readiness funds, or state-level career-readiness budgets. We can provide a quote letter formatted for school procurement.

How do counsellors fit this into existing programming?

Most schools running JobCannon integrate it into existing programming rather than adding a separate "JobCannon class." Common placements: 9th-grade homeroom or advisory period for the initial battery, careers fair or 11th-grade options-evening preparation for Career Guide conversations, 12th-grade post-secondary planning for the final pathway-commitment refresh. Schools running a dedicated career-readiness curriculum can use JobCannon as the spine. Schools without dedicated curriculum get a counsellor playbook with sequenced session plans and parent-communication templates.

What about FERPA, COPPA, and student data privacy?

JobCannon is FERPA-aligned for school official use. For students under 13 (occasional grade 9 cases), COPPA-compliant parental consent flow is available. For schools with international or transfer students from EU jurisdictions, GDPR compliance applies. All data is stored on US Supabase infrastructure with role-based access. Schools sign a Data Processing Agreement covering exactly which student-data fields are collected (assessment answers, Career Guide outcomes, no demographic or PII unless the school chooses to add them). Counsellor access is role-based; students can mark assessment answers as counsellor-private under participant-controlled consent default. See /b2b/guides/ferpa-student-data-career-platform for the full FERPA workflow.

How do we obtain parental consent for students under 18?

For US students between 13 and 18, parental notification (not consent) is the standard FERPA pattern — schools include JobCannon in their annual directory-information notice, and parents may opt out for their child. For students under 13 (rare in grade 9), COPPA verifiable parental consent applies and the platform exposes a built-in consent flow that schools either pre-collect once per cohort with signed forms or run per student in-platform. For international students from EU/UK jurisdictions, GDPR applies and the school records lawful basis (typically public-task or legitimate-interests under educational purpose) in its data-protection register. The counsellor playbook includes a parent-notification email template aligned with each regulatory regime.

How does this fit into a 9-12 college-and-career-readiness curriculum?

Schools running a structured CCR curriculum use JobCannon as the assessment spine across the four-year arc rather than as a standalone unit. Common placements: 9th-grade homeroom or advisory period for the initial RIASEC + Multiple Intelligences battery, 10th-grade ELA cross-curricular for Skills Audit reflection writing, 11th-grade options-evening preparation for Career Match conversations, 12th-grade post-secondary planning for the EQ + Career Guide refinement. Schools without a dedicated CCR curriculum get a counsellor playbook with sequenced session plans for each grade. The platform satisfies state CCR indicator assessment requirements where state plans include them.

Does this work for IDEA students with IEPs and 504 plans?

Yes. The assessment flow is designed to be IDEA-friendly: extended-time accommodation is built in (no time pressure, pause-resume across sessions), questions are at concrete-behaviour reading level rather than abstract self-concepts (which helps students with reading-comprehension or executive-function differences), and the Career Guide output uses plain-language descriptions appropriate for IEP transition planning. For students with IEP transition goals (mandatory from age 16 under IDEA), the Career Guide functions as transition-assessment evidence and supports Indicator 14 post-secondary outcomes data collection. Counsellors can flag assessments as IEP-aligned in the dashboard for transition-team review.