Built for ages 13-18
Quick mobile-friendly assessments for after-school programmes, summer camps, and mentorship initiatives. Teen-mode reading level, COPPA-compliant for under-13 access, free for youth-program cohorts.
JobCannon for Youth Programs supports career-discovery work in after-school clubs, summer camps, mentorship programmes, and out-of-school-time providers. The teen-calibrated assessment battery (Multiple Intelligences, Spirit Animal, RIASEC, Career Match) targets ages 13-18 at a Grade 6-7 reading level with optional age-appropriate variants for 11-13 year olds. The platform is mobile-first with a low-bandwidth mode for under-resourced settings. Career Match recommendations include free and low-cost training pathways alongside four-year university routes so suggestions feel attainable. COPPA-compliant parental consent flow for under-13 access. Mentor and programme-director dashboards provide journey views and aggregate cohort patterns without exposing raw psychometric answers. Standard six-week deployment structure (ice-breaker → career frame → career exploration → mentor skill-building) reported by partners to lift participant engagement 30-50 percent over career-talk-only formats. Used by US after-school networks, UK youth charities, and Latin American mentorship programmes. Free for verified youth-program cohorts.
Four use cases mentors and programme directors actually run.
Mobile-first, 15-25 minutes per assessment, age-appropriate content.
For a youth programme with 500 teens per year
Free permanently for verified youth-development programmes (after-school, summer camps, mentorship, out-of-school-time providers). Programme-director dashboard included on the free tier for partners verified by reference.
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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.
Tell us your programme name, your cohort size, and your funder. We verify and activate within two business days.
Yes. The teen-mode reading level sits at Grade 6-7 with examples and language tested with US and UK youth-program partners. Heavier psychometric instruments (Big Five, Career Match) work cleanly from age 13 with adult facilitation; lighter instruments (Multiple Intelligences, Spirit Animal, Career Cluster Quiz) work from age 11 unsupervised. The Career Guide output is graphical-first with stories rather than data tables, which keeps engagement high in this age group.
Standard 6-week deployment: week one ice-breaker assessments (Spirit Animal, Multiple Intelligences) introduce self-awareness vocabulary; week two RIASEC sets the career-exploration frame; week three Career Match opens the career database for project work; weeks four-six are mentor-led skill-building tied to top career matches. Programmes that use this structure report participant engagement scores 30-50 percent higher than career-talk-only formats.
Yes, with explicit teen consent and parent notification. The default privacy posture is participant-controlled — the teen sees their own results immediately, and a mentor sees results only after the teen explicitly consents during the assessment flow. For programmes serving under-13 participants, parental consent is required upfront. This consent flow is a feature, not a workaround — youth workers report that giving teens control of their data dramatically improves engagement and trust in the programme.
The platform is mobile-first by design and works on any phone with a data connection. There is a low-bandwidth mode for assessment delivery in areas with intermittent connectivity. Career Match recommendations include free or low-cost training pathways (community college, free online courses, apprenticeships) alongside four-year-university paths, so the recommendations feel realistic rather than aspirational-only. Many youth-program partners report this is the feature that resonates most with their participants.
Under-13 access requires verifiable parental consent before assessment delivery. We provide a COPPA-compliant consent flow including parent email verification, a plain-English consent description, and a no-cost opt-out at any time. For programmes serving 11-13 year olds, the assessment battery is restricted to age-appropriate instruments (Multiple Intelligences, Career Cluster, Strengths Spotter) and excludes adult-validated instruments like Big Five.
Mentors get a participant journey view: assessments completed, top career matches, skills the participant identified as wanting to build, and self-reported confidence. The view is read-only and does not show raw psychometric answers — only outcomes. Mentors use it to anchor 1:1 conversations and to celebrate progress at programme close. Programme directors get aggregate dashboards showing cohort-level patterns.