Career Well-Being Apps & Digital Course Materials
Prioritize and Scale Career Well-Being
Career Key publishes career well-being apps, digital course materials, and assessments for educators and employers who want happier students, alumni and employees.
Digital Course Material
Many people are anxious they’ll decide on the wrong education program or career path.
Career Key’s PathAdvisor personalized career well-being app turns anxiety into confidence their hard work and education investments will pay off, leading to better jobs that make them happy.
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PathAdvisor is a personalized, AI-enabled career well-being app for students and employees.
Browser based, on any device, in any LMS. No app store download needed.
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Put people at ease their education investments will pay off, that they are moving forward in the right direction.
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Students and employees find where they will thrive and belong at your institution or organization - and beyond. Customized to your programs, support services, and resources.
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Easy to implement. We are SSO (Single Sign On) and integrated in your LMS (Learning Management System) including Canvas, BlackBoard Learn, and Google Classroom.
PathAdvisor is 1EdTech TrustEd Apps certified for Learning Tools Interoperability® (LTI®) v1.3.
Assessment
This 10-minute, self-guided valid career interest inventory is based on Holland’s Theory of Career Choice. Its intuitive, unique career and college major exploration system leaves the old 3 letter RIASEC codes behind.
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10-minute, self-guided Holland personality and interest assessment that students will actually complete
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Student (grades 8-12, early college), Transitions (late college, career change)
Best fit U.S. careers and North American postsecondary programs.
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Identify Thriving, Promising and Challenging work and academic environments. (no 3 letter codes!)
Broaden best-fit options without overwhelm using our proprietary exploration system of organizing careers and majors.
Direct personality matches to majors increase engagement.
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We teach how to strengthen academic and career well-being. Holistic, intuitive ACIP 4 step decision making tool helps people see the big picture.
Group Administration Portal
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Group administration dashboard for counselors, advisors, faculty and administrators.
Extensive Resources for Professionals knowledge base with lesson plans.
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Single Sign On (SSO) in your Learning Management System (LMS)
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Identify at-risk students who need more support; AI-enabled notifications
Simple, powerful PowerBI reports
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Built in valid pre/post tool in PathAdvisor makes it easy.
Distribution Channels
Career Key solutions scale career well-being in every major digital learning platform.
Prioritize and Scale Career Well-Being
Our Approach
Developed over 25 years, it boils down to 3 steps,
Discover who you are. Discover and grow your unique personality, skills, and strengths over time,
Decide where you’re going. Decide on an academic and career path that’s right for you now, and
Act. Declare your intention. Set goals, get support, and act.
Research shows these steps increase career well-being and happiness over a lifetime.
FAQs
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Also referred to as courseware, a learning tool, or an application (app), a digital course material is a learning tool instructors assign students to use in a course.
It’s the digital equivalent of a textbook in your Learning Management System (LMS) like Blackboard or Canvas, except personalized and engaging.
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Impact, Scale and Affordability.
Impact: When you adopt PathAdvisor in a required course, you ensure more people benefit from stronger career well-being and professional development.
Scale: Required classes mean all students in large cohorts can access the digital material on day one of the semester.
Affordability: Regardless of financial need, all people get access at the lowest possible price.
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PathAdvisor is already integrated into most LMS, which means Security, Single Sign On and Disability Accessibility is already pre-approved.
All it takes is one click from your LMS admin and you can pilot PathAdvisor. without giving your IT department heartburn. Ask us how.
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In higher education, the student pays for PathAdvisor through the campus store’s course materials affordability program.
In K12, the school pays for the students.
In Business Learning and Development, the organization can decide who pays and how much.
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.