Career assessments for out-of-school youth. Mobile-first, low-friction enrollment, WIOA-aligned.

Five common deployments. (1) WIOA Title I Youth providers serving 16-24 year-old out-of-school youth (OSY) with at least one barrier to employment. (2) YouthBuild programmes pairing construction-trade training with secondary education. (3) Job Corps centers running residential career-and-technical education. (4) Local Workforce Development Board (LWDB) reengagement initiatives targeting disconnected youth. (5) State and county opportunity-youth programmes (BOOST, GenZ Reconnect) reaching youth not enrolled in school or work. JobCannon serves each because the platform is mobile-first, low-friction to enroll, and produces a Career Guide that case managers use as evidence for WIOA Indicators 1-6.

Out-of-school youth are predominantly mobile-only — many do not have reliable laptop or desktop access, and a substantial share complete online tasks exclusively on phone. Career platforms designed primarily for desktop use see drop-off rates above 60% with this audience. JobCannon's assessment flow is mobile-first by design — questions, response options, and the Career Guide output all work cleanly on a 360px-wide screen. Pause-resume preserves progress when youth lose connectivity or run out of mobile data mid-session. Drop-off rates with reengaged youth are substantially lower than desktop-first platforms.

Standard JobCannon enrollment requires an email, which excludes a meaningful share of disconnected youth who do not actively maintain email accounts. For OSY deployment, three alternative enrollment paths apply. (1) SMS-based enrollment using a phone number instead of email (in active build for US/UK SMS). (2) Anonymous programme-ID enrollment using a case-manager-issued cohort ID with no PII. (3) QR-code enrollment for in-person reengagement centres where the case manager scans the youth in. The friction reduction matters — many programmes report enrollment-completion rates 2-3× higher than email-required platforms.

Yes. JobCannon Career Guide produces participant-level career-readiness data that LWDBs use as evidence for WIOA Indicator 1 (Employment Rate Q2 after exit), Indicator 4 (Median Earnings Q2 after exit), and Indicator 6 (Measurable Skill Gains). Aggregate exports are formatted for the Workforce Integrated Performance System (WIPS) submissions. Most LWDBs integrate JobCannon into their case-management system (Geographic Solutions, MIS, Workforce-DC) via the Assessment API on Business tier, with custom integration on partnership engagements for end-to-end WIOA Title I-B Youth workflows.

Many out-of-school youth face barriers to traditional college pathways — incomplete secondary education, justice-involvement history, foster-care transition, housing instability. JobCannon's Career Guide filters output to flag careers with strong accessible-pathway profiles: skilled trades with apprenticeship entry (no degree required), commercial driving, food service management, certain technology roles (CompTIA + bootcamp pathway), public-sector entry roles. The 2,536-career knowledge graph tags these pathways, and the Career Guide surfaces them prominently for OSY users. Direct integration with apprenticeship registries (Apprenticeship.gov, state Office of Apprenticeship) is scoped on partnership engagements.

Generic WIOA assessment tools (TABE, CASAS, ACT WorkKeys) measure academic and skill levels for case-management documentation but do not produce career-direction output. JobCannon adds the career-direction layer those tools lack: validated Big Five (OCEAN), RIASEC, Skills Audit, EQ, plus AI Career Match across 2,536 careers with skill-gap analysis. The Career Guide output feeds directly into the WIOA Individual Service Strategy (ISS) as evidence for occupational training selection. LWDBs typically keep TABE/CASAS for the academic-skill measurement and add JobCannon for the career-direction layer. See /b2b/guides/wioa-individual-training-account-2026 and /b2b/guides/workforce-board-performance-measures-2026 for the full WIOA workflow.

Disconnected youth often have no recent academic record, gaps in transcripts, or interrupted secondary education — generic career tools that key off recent grades or course history fail for this audience. JobCannon does not require academic input. Assessment is direction-from-self-report only: RIASEC interest discovery, Big Five trait assessment, Skills Audit (which captures hands-on, work-based, and life-experience skills, not just school-acquired skills), and EQ. The Career Guide output works equally well for a 17-year-old who left school at 14, a 22-year-old returning after a justice-involvement gap, or a 19-year-old who completed secondary education but disconnected from work. The platform is designed for the audience the academic-data-required tools cannot serve.

Spanish localisation is in active build, with completion targeted for the next quarter. For Spanish-speaking participants today, English assessments are still completable via mobile-first flow; case managers review the Career Guide output bilingually with the participant during the ISS conversation. For LWDBs serving substantial Spanish-speaking OSY populations, Spanish access is prioritised on the partnership engagement roadmap. Other languages (Haitian Creole, Vietnamese, Arabic) are scoped on partnership engagements based on programme demand. See /b2b/guides/multilingual-assessment-localization-quality for the localisation methodology.

Standard pattern: at intake or early in the 14-element programme element delivery, case managers run the JobCannon core battery (RIASEC, Skills Audit, Career Match) before the Individual Service Strategy (ISS) conversation. The Career Guide output gives the participant concrete career direction and gives the case manager evidence for occupational-training selection (Element 12, Occupational Skills Training) and for ITA voucher recommendations. Mid-programme, EQ and Big Five assessments support the workforce-readiness preparation element (Element 9). Pre-exit, the Career Guide refinement supports the follow-up-services planning. WIOA Indicators 1, 4, and 6 evidence is produced via aggregate exports. Direct integration with Geographic Solutions, MIS, and Workforce-DC case-management systems is available on Business tier or scoped on partnership engagements.