Student Career Well-Being for the classroom
Most teachers and counselors struggle to engage today’s anxious students in career and college planning.
Career Key created a personalized, online career well-being app for the classroom that turns anxiety into excitement, which results in happier students ready to thrive on their own.
Created by a counselor educator, our app and career assessments enrich and expand the work 8th to 12th grade students are doing in AVID, Gear Up, TRIO, and CTE as they plan their postsecondary paths.
Our career tools are exclusive to Career Key’s hosted platform and available to schools and districts of any size in your LMS.
How does PathAdvisor engage high school students? CEO Juliet Jones
Career Key Test and Activity Booklets
No internet? Prefer paper?
Order the affordable, self-scoring, paper-pencil Career Key!
Help others learn about their personality and interests, best fit occupations, and how to make confident, successful career decisions.
Created by nationally recognized counseling psychologist and first-generation college graduate Dr. Lawrence K. Jones, NCC.
"I want to thank you... I am currently unemployed and have limited finances. I am changing careers and was uncertain in my direction. Your Career Key was a big help to me!"
Career Changer
“It was so easy and it helped me find out what I need to do. I'm very glad that I did it."
9th grader
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Middle and high schools
Youth groups
Nonprofits serving adults in transition, employment programs, corrections, social services
Any group without reliable Internet access, or wanting to use a tangible tool. Yes, sometimes “old school” is better!
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10-minute, paper-pencil, self-scoring, scientifically valid measure of John Holland’s six personality types
Draw your Career Key (assessment results)
Explore 400+ best fit occupations by personality type and Career Key work group (workers with similar traits, skills, abilities)
What your test scores mean, including Dr. Holland’s basic ideas and the hexagon
Further career exploration, questions you should ask and how to find the answers
Keep a career portfolio
Learn about matching education programs
Learn more about yourself
4 steps to making a good decision
Decision Balance Sheet to fill out
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20 pages, color, soy-based inks, 100% post-consumer recycled paper
8.5 inches (h) x 5.5 inches (w)
Sold in bundles of 20, 50, 100 booklets
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Options: FedEx Ground (1-5 business days), 2 day, 5 day
We charge a flat shipping rate per bundle. So in some cases, it may be cheaper to order a larger bundle than higher quantities of a smaller bundle.
We offer free ground shipping for orders over $350. Use FREESHIP350 at checkout.
For Alaska, Hawaii, questions and special requests, please request information.
Exclusive to our new PathAdvisor courseware
Get to know your high school students better, faster with the Career Decision Profile (CDP)
Advisors helping students make postsecondary education plans say this 5-minute snapshot of career decision readiness identifies,
which students need the most help
what they need to make progress in decision making
any barriers a student faces that prevent them from moving forward
What our partners say
Students really took to the assessment. They felt that the assessments were pretty accurate, encouraging them to want to investigate more into their interests and goals…
Although students don’t make endorsements until ninth grade, Career Key has helped our students proactively plan their high school choices.
Now every eighth grader has a basis for their endorsement choice going into ninth grade.
— Ray Weaver, Senior Manager for College Readiness, Houston ISD
Of all the assessments I have tested, Career Key Discovery is the only one I’ve found to link the results to courses and occupations of interest effectively. It is a key step in the process for people who are searching for the best career path forward.
— Anna Black, Strategic Career Planning
Career Key funding information
Schools and districts may have the opportunity use funding from Title I, III and IV as well as the Perkins V and Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) to support the purchase of Career Key. Check out our Career Key Funding Information sheet for K-12 schools and districts.
Resources for K-12 Education
Learn more about Holland’s Theory of Career Choice, matching Holland personality types to career options, skills identification and more. Check out the growing Career Key collection of advertising and registration-free resources. You are free to link to any of these articles in your classroom activities.
Watch & Discover
Take a quick video tour of Career Key.
Personality-Major Match
Discovery for Students
Decision
Profile
Career Key for Administrators
