130 careers. 2,580 colleges.
We help you find the ones that fit.
CareerCoach connects who your student is to a career, a major, and a college worth going to, with honest data on pay, job growth, AI-disruption risk, cost, and whether each school is actually worth it.
One-time $29, no subscription. The assessment takes about 15 minutes.
No ads. No subscriptions. No trackers. Just honest research and real data to help you and your student make two of the biggest decisions of their life.
The gap we fill
Your student's school does a lot right.
This is the part it usually can't.
High schools do a good job bringing colleges to campus, booking visits, and helping with applications. What they generally cannot do, at 400 students to one counselor:
- ✗ Show your student the full landscape of careers they have never heard of
- ✗ Tell you whether a college's students actually stay and graduate
- ✗ Tell you what a family will really pay, not the sticker price
- ✗ Warn you when a school is quietly shrinking
That is the gap CareerCoach fills. We start with who your student is, and we do not stop until it connects to real careers, real majors, and real colleges, with the honest numbers attached.
How it works
From "I have no idea" to a real plan.
Take the assessment
A validated interest assessment (Holland RIASEC) that respects your student's time and intelligence. About 15 minutes.
Meet the careers you're wired for
See matched careers, including ones your student has never heard of, each with real salary, job-growth, and AI-disruption-risk data.
Connect careers to majors
Every career links to the college majors that lead there, so "what should I study" stops being a guess.
Find colleges worth going to
Match those majors to real colleges, near home or across the country, each with net price, retention, graduation rate, and enrollment trend.
Narrow it down on your shortlist
Save the careers and colleges that click, then compare them side by side on My Shortlist to turn a list of maybes into real options.
You choose how far to look. We make sure whatever ends up on the shortlist actually fits and is actually worth it.
Connect the whole path
Most tools stop at a career quiz. We connect the dots.
Plenty of quizzes hand your student three job titles and call it a day. CareerCoach keeps going: career to major to a real college that fits, all in one place.
It is the whole "what should I do, what should I study, and where should I go" answer, connected, so your family is not stitching it together from a dozen browser tabs.
Honest about both halves
We tell you the truth about careers and colleges.
On careers: real salary medians (not best-case), the job-growth outlook, and an honest read on AI-disruption risk. We are not here to scare anyone. Of the 130 careers in the tool, 78% are growing and about half are low AI-risk. But when a path is genuinely exposed, we say so.
On colleges: net price (not just the sticker price), how many freshmen come back, how many actually graduate, and whether the school is growing or shrinking. The good schools have nothing to hide. We help you find them.
The numbers
The numbers most families never see.
of colleges lose more than 1 in 5 freshmen before year two. We show retention on every school.
colleges (more than half in the tool) are shrinking. We flag it before you commit.
average sticker price vs what the average family actually pays. We show net price, not the scary number.
of the 130 careers are growing, and we're honest about the 11% that AI is most likely to disrupt.
Career data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and O*NET. College data from the U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard. See About & Data Sources.
Why I built this
A straight question from my son, and no straight answer.
Hi, I'm Doug. I've been building software products for over 15 years. I built this one after my son asked whether he should already know where he's going to college and what he'll do for work after he graduates. That's a heavy question for a teenager, and I realized I couldn't hand him a straight answer either. This was a passion project built out of necessity, and now I'm finding that it's going to benefit a lot more families than just mine.
I want to be clear: this isn't a knock on high schools. Most do a pretty good job getting colleges in the door and booking visits. But they generally can't give a student the real landscape of careers they might actually be interested in, and they don't have the data to tell a family what a school is really like once you get past the tour, whether students stay, whether it costs what it says, whether it's shrinking.
Your family's data stays your family's.
That's not a setting you have to go find. It's how the whole thing is built.
- ✓ No ads and no third-party ad trackers, ever, especially on any page where your student answers questions.
- ✓ We don't sell your data. There's no data-broker business here and never will be.
- ✓ We don't track your student around the web. Your student's results belong to you.
Pricing
One honest price. No subscription.
Everything the tool does, for one student, paid once. No subscription, no upsells, no "premium" tier waiting behind the first one.
- ✓ Your Holland (RIASEC) results and top career matches
- ✓ Full salary, job-growth, and AI-disruption-risk detail on every match
- ✓ Recommended majors for each career
- ✓ Matching colleges with net price, retention, graduation rate, and enrollment trend
- ✓ My Shortlist: save and compare careers and colleges side by side
- ✓ PDF export to keep or share
Pay once, use the whole tool. No subscription, ever.
Questions
Straight answers.
Why pay when our school already gives us Naviance for free? +
Is my kid's data safe? +
Is this just another personality quiz? +
Are these numbers real, or marketing? +
My kid is only a sophomore. Is it too early? +
Two of the biggest decisions ahead. Start with honest data.
Find the right fit - $29One-time $29. No subscription. About 15 minutes to complete.