Career tests your students actually want to take

JobCannon serves five distinct school verticals, each with a dedicated landing page and a vertical-specific battery: high schools (grades 9-12, ESSA Title IV and Perkins V CTE alignment) at /for-high-schools, middle schools (grades 6-8, COPPA-compliant under-13 access) at /for-middle-schools, school districts (multi-school rollups, FERPA DPA, district dashboards) at /for-school-districts, vocational and trade schools (programme-fit screening, Perkins V Indicator 2S1/2S2 reporting) at /for-vocational-schools, and out-of-school youth providers (WIOA Title I Youth, mobile-first SMS enrollment) at /for-out-of-school-youth. Pick the vertical that matches your context — the recommended battery, regulatory references, and counsellor playbook differ per vertical.

Yes. All 50+ student-facing assessments and Career Guide output are completely free for educational use — no per-student fees, no school licenses, no annual subscriptions. Students take tests via a link you share and get instant results. The school administrator dashboard with cohort analytics is on the Business tier ($199/mo flat for unlimited learners) and is typically funded through Perkins V grants, ESSA Title IV career-readiness funds, or state career-readiness budgets. We will always keep core student-facing tests free for educational use.

Most tests are calibrated for ages 14+. RIASEC, Career Match, and Big Five (OCEAN) work well for GCSE, A-Level, and US grades 9-12. For middle-school grades 6-8, the recommended battery prioritises Multiple Intelligences (strengths exploration) and a RIASEC short-form (interest discovery), with Big Five deferred until grade 9 where the trait framework is calibrated. Question phrasing for grade 6-8 use is at Lexile 800-1050 reading level. See /for-middle-schools for the full age-appropriate sequencing.

Teachers typically use RIASEC before careers days (students know which stands to visit), Career Match for options evening (data-driven subject choices), and Big Five or DISC for PSHE/tutorial sessions on self-awareness. US schools running CTE pathways under Perkins V use the platform for Programme-of-Study selection evidence and Programme-Quality reporting. UK schools use it for Gatsby Benchmark 3 (addressing the needs of each pupil) and Benchmark 4 (linking curriculum learning to careers). The counsellor playbook on the Business tier provides sequenced session plans.

On the free tier, students receive their own individual results — teachers do not see them by default, which is the appropriate FERPA and GDPR posture for student-controlled assessment data. The school administrator dashboard on the Business tier shows aggregated cohort profiles (archetype distribution, career interest patterns, completion rates) without exposing individual responses. For named-student counsellor access, schools sign a Data Processing Agreement defining counsellor role-based access — this is the pattern used in our high-school and district deployments.

For US schools, JobCannon produces student-level Career Guide records that schools use as evidence for ESSA Title IV career-readiness indicators and state CCR (College-and-Career-Ready) indicator reporting. For schools running CTE pathways under Perkins V, the platform supports Programme-of-Study selection evidence and Programme-Quality reporting, including Indicator 2S1/2S2 measures for vocational programmes. UK schools use it for Gatsby Benchmark 3 and 4 evidence in their Compass+ self-evaluation. See the B2B guides at /b2b/guides/cte-perkins-v-concentrator-reporting and /b2b/guides/esa-essa-career-readiness-indicator for the full reporting workflow.

JobCannon is FERPA-aligned for school official use, COPPA-compliant for under-13 student access via a parental-consent flow or anonymous-cohort school-issued IDs, and GDPR-compliant for UK and EU students under ICO children's-data guidance. Schools sign a Data Processing Agreement covering exactly which fields are collected (assessment answers and Career Guide outcomes only — 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 and /b2b/guides/coppa-compliance-career-assessment-under-13 for detail.

The platform currently delivers in English with Spanish localisation in active build for bilingual school communities — the most common request from US schools serving ESL students and from UK schools with EAL learners. Reading-level calibration applies across language variants (grade-appropriate phrasing, concrete-behaviour questions rather than abstract self-concepts). For schools serving wider language communities, additional locales are scoped on partnership engagements. See /b2b/guides/multilingual-assessment-localization-quality for the localisation methodology.

For a single school, share assessment links with students today — no setup needed for the free tier, and the student-facing experience is the entire programme spine for many schools. For the school administrator dashboard, counsellor playbook, or district-wide rollout, request a pilot using the form above. We respond with a quote letter formatted for school procurement (or grant funding documentation for ESSA Title IV, Perkins V, or state CCR-indicator budgets) and a sequenced rollout plan within two business days. Standard rollout is two to four weeks for a single school, six to eight weeks for a district.