Career assessment & readiness for institutions
Validated career-interest assessment, AI matching across thousands of careers, cohort onboarding, and a district dashboard. For schools, colleges, and workforce programs. 152 tests, COPPA-compliant, from $0.
JobCannon for Institutions is the career-assessment and guidance layer for schools, colleges, and workforce programs: 152 assessments, AI career-matching across thousands of careers, cohort onboarding, and an administrator dashboard, from $0/mo. Core institutional assessments are RIASEC / Holland Codes (the career-interest standard used by O*NET), Career Match (AI match across the careers catalog), Multiple Intelligences (a week-one engagement assessment), Skills Audit (workforce-readiness baseline), and Big Five for older cohorts. Onboarding is by class code (a short shareable code, no student email required — COPPA-compliant for under-13, and the pattern that starts a whole year group with nothing provisioned per student) or by pasted invite list (a branded magic link and a tracked row per person). The plan limit is counted in people per billing period and applies to both routes — one unit per participant however many assessments they take — and the class-code page stops admitting new people once the ceiling is reached. Sign-in is Google, Workspace school accounts included; there is no SAML, Entra, Clever or ClassLink connection, no SCIM provisioning, no CSV import and no SIS roster sync. Administrators see per-participant completion status, DISC and career distribution, RIASEC and Big Five averages, an interests wheel and generated takeaways, and can export results to CSV for board packs and grant evidence — within one organisation, with no district rollup, no year-over-year axis and no skill-gap computation. It is a modern, lower-cost alternative to full college-and-career-readiness suites — Naviance, Xello, SchooLinks, YouScience, Scoir — for the assessment-and-guidance job, while institutions keep their existing SIS. Use cases: middle-to-high-school transition, high-school pathway choice, community-college and vocational program intake, and workforce / out-of-school-youth program enrolment.
The assessment-and-guidance layer, without the full-suite price tag.
Whitelist the assessments that fit your program and age group.
Typical monthly cost for a mid-size deployment
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For your specific institution type, the lane pages go deeper: schools, high schools, middle schools, districts, community colleges, vocational schools, career counselors, and educators. The onboarding mechanics live in bulk access, and the analytics in the institutional dashboard.
Team ($79/mo, 80 people a billing period) fits a single school or small program. Scale ($199/mo, 200 people, white-label reports and the assessment API) fits multi-site programs. The unit is a participant, not a test — one person costs one unit however many assessments they take. Enterprise for large districts and state workforce systems. For a whole cohort year there is also the Education Licence below: one rate per enrolled student for the academic year, assessments uncapped, including the full careers and skills corpus.
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One rate per enrolled student for the academic year. Assessments are uncapped inside it, retakes included, and the career and skills corpus comes with it. Multiply your own enrolment by your band and you have the most this can cost you before you talk to us.
$1.25 down to $0.80 per student, per year — assessments uncapped
That multiplication is a ceiling, not a bill. If our self-serve plans would cover the same number of students for less, you are quoted the lower figure — we do not sell an institution its own students back at a higher price than anyone can buy them for on the pricing page.
A large school, multi-school district or trust
A university, college or college group
A statewide or national programme
£350 per school, per year — a flat whole-school licence rather than a per-student rate, because that is the unit UK schools budget in. Same uncapped assessments and same corpus. Excludes VAT.
The ladder starts at 1,301 students. Below that a self-serve plan already covers your whole roll for less than a licence would, so that is what we will point you at — and UK schools have the flat whole-school licence above at any size. Bands are by enrolment, and the rate applies to your whole roll rather than to a seat count you have to predict. Invoiced annually against a purchase order; no per-assessment charge and nothing to top up mid-year. Assessing an institution's enrolled students is covered by the Education Licence, not by a hiring plan. What is in the corpus.
Tell us your cohort size, institution type, and which frameworks you report against. We'll come back with a setup plan and pricing within one business day.
A career readiness assessment measures a student or participant's interests, strengths, and work-style so an advisor can guide next steps — course selection, pathway choice, a first job, or a training program. Institutions deploy them at intake (to baseline a cohort), at decision points (8th-to-9th grade transition, end of a workforce program), and for reporting (Perkins V, WIOA, NACE career-readiness competencies). JobCannon's RIASEC and Career Match map a participant to real careers and the skills behind them, so the result is a conversation starter, not a dead-end score.
Those are full college-and-career-readiness suites with deep transcript, application, and scholarship modules, licensed annually at district scale. JobCannon is the assessment-and-guidance layer: 152 tests, AI career-matching across thousands of careers, cohort onboarding, and a district dashboard, starting at $0. Where they price per enrolled student for the year, so do we — the Education Licence bands are published on this page rather than quoted on a call, so you can compare the rate directly instead of comparing our monthly plan to their annual one. If you need full SIS-integrated application tracking, the incumbents do more; if you need fast, engaging career-interest assessment that students actually finish, that is precisely our lane. Many programs run us alongside their existing SIS.
Yes. Class-code onboarding means students never need to supply an email — the COPPA-compliant default for under-13 cohorts. Assessments are self-report and age-appropriate, anonymous test-taking is supported, and we operate under GDPR / UK-GDPR plus FERPA-aware data handling for US schools. Districts get a data-processing agreement on partnership engagements. We never sell student data.
Two patterns. Class codes — a short code like DH-A7B3 that students enter before picking their own username; instant, no email address collected, nothing provisioned per student, so a whole year group is the same work as one class. Invite lists — paste names and emails one per line and each person gets a branded magic link and their own tracked row; those go out one at a time, up to 30 a minute. Your plan limit is counted in people per billing period and covers both routes equally — one unit per participant however many assessments they take, counted once if they arrive by both — and when the ceiling is reached the class-code page stops admitting new people, so size the tier to the cohort before term starts. Every result shows the code it arrived through, which is how districts tell one school from another — generate one code per school. Note the shape before you plan around it: the cabinet names a cohort automatically from the assessments you ticked rather than asking you for a name, so a label in your own wording is settable through the API only, and there is no grade, school or demographic field behind any of it. There is no CSV import and no SIS roster sync. See bulk access for the full mechanics.
Completion status for every invited participant — sent, opened, in progress, completed — with their results attached, plus distribution across the cohort: DISC style spread, the careers that keep coming up, RIASEC and Big Five averages, an interests wheel, and written takeaways generated from those numbers. Results export to CSV for board packs and grant evidence. Two honest limits worth knowing before you buy: the dashboard covers one organisation, so there is no school-to-district rollup and no year-over-year comparison, and there is no skill-gap analysis — we do not currently compute what a participant has against what a career needs.